Governmental & Institutional Travel & Tourism Sector
The Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations, also known by its acronym SDG, refers to the initiative promoted by the United Nations (UN) towards the adoption of a set of 17 goals of universal application focused on eradicating poverty, protecting the planet and ensuring prosperity for all as part of a new sustainable development agenda (1): the Agenda 2030 on Sustainable Development. These goals were set in 2015 as the predecessors of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), and are intended to achieve those targets that could not be achieved over a period of 15 years.
The gradual importance of the People's Republic of China in the international arena, from the Deng Xiaoping era until now, has placed the Asian country at the forefront of the scene, until now led by European countries and the United States. China has gone from being a regional power to becoming a world power.
The COVID-19 pandemic, or SARS-CoV-2, is affecting the economies of all countries and territories around the world. Even in the People's Republic of China, South Korea, the Republic of China (Taiwan) or Singapore -countries that have overcome the hardest phases of the pandemic-, the impact has meant a fall in their respective GDPs in the first quarter of 2020.