According to a media release from the National Development and Reform Commission, the country's top economic planner, the guideline is the overarching document dubbed "1" in China's "1+N" policy system for its climate targets. The "N" refers to specific plans from different sectors to achieve these targets.

"Together with an action plan for peaking carbon dioxide emissions before 2030, the document constitutes the country's top-level design that will go all the way through the two stages of carbon peaking and neutrality," said the commission, where the office of a central leading group on work for the climate targets is based.