UNITED NATIONS, July 17 (Xinhua) — The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) present huge opportunities for the business sector and meanwhile asks enterprises to bear more social responsibilities in promoting sustainable development, said Liang Xiaohui, a Chinese expert.

Changes start to happen on the ground and in small places.

Liang is an analyst with China National Textile and Apparel Council, a national federation of textile-related industries. He has been announced by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as one of ten local SDG Pioneers for his dedication to helping Chinese sectors develop their sustainability initiatives.

In a recent interview with Xinhua, Liang said trillions of dollars will be invested in areas related to SDGs, and those responsible enterprises which can offer means to achieve the goals can benefit from the development trend.

Image: A staff member dusts a machine at a textile company in the Nanxun District of Huzhou City, east China’s Zhejiang Province, Dec. 25, 2014. In order to break out the bottleneck of economic development, a series of technical transformation was launched in traditional manufacturing industry in the Nanxun District of Huzhou in 2014. (Xinhua/Tan Jin).