from the Roundtable on Sustainable Development Goals

Christine Lagarde,

managing director of the International Monetary Fund

"Everything is better with growth and you have been leading the charge in terms of growth. Over the last 10 years, you have doubled your GDP, and you have also doubled the per capita income of the Chinese people.

"It's not just your words, but it's also action. You've put the SDGs (sustainable development goals) clearly into your 13th Five-Year Plan, and you've determined to actually put those into an annual action plan. ... This is for China, but you are also doing things for other countries."

Jim Yong Kim,

president of the World Bank

"The Chinese presidency of the G20 supported expanding investments in infrastructure to spur growth and create jobs, as well as increase mobilization of private resources. ... The country's economic growth affects the growth rate of many countries around the world. Its ambitious policies in cutting back harmful emissions will also play a major role in whether the world will keep global warming under 2 degrees Celsius.

"The World Bank Group's engagement with China on some of its most fundamental development issues has also shown another side of China as a development innovator."

Ban Ki-moon,

secretary-general of the UN

"We are one year into the implementation of the 2030 agenda for sustainable development. Our aim as an international community is to hit the ground running. The recent meeting of a high-level political forum on sustainable development shed light on implementation efforts around the world.

"Of the 11 G20 summit meetings, this was the first time that the development agenda was taken as an action agenda. I appreciate Chinese leadership and vision."