This report was prepared as part of thePartnership for Market Readiness (PMR) Policy Analysis WorkProgram which was launched to support countries’ efforts todetermine post-2020 mitigation scenarios and identifypackages of effective and cost-efficient policies—includingcarbon pricing instruments—to achieve climate changemitigation. This report contributed to the development ofthe China’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) andfacilitated the process of presenting and disclosing the keyindicators, components, and assumptions that are used forthe mid- and long-term scenarios. The report also improvesunderstanding on how China’s NDC could be seen as a powerfulvehicle for innovation and help shift the country toward anew development pathway.