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East and Southeast Asia

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Energy and climate

Policy target: cumulative production and sales of battery-electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles would exceed five million by 2020.

State Council of China
China

Made 2012Resolved 2020

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Energy and climate

Policy target: China would build 30 GW of wind-power capacity by 2020.

National Development and Reform Commission
China

Made 2007Resolved 2020

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Energy and climate

Policy target: Japan would have approximately 40,000 fuel-cell vehicles cumulatively by 2020.

Japan's Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Strategy Council
Japan

Made 2016Resolved 2021

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Science

Engineering target: Japan's next-generation supercomputer would offer 10 petaflops of computing performance on completion in 2012.

RIKEN
Japan

Made 2008Resolved 2011

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Science

Mission schedule: Hayabusa would rendezvous with Itokawa in 2005 and return to Earth in June 2007.

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Japan

Made 2004Resolved 2010

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Science

Mission schedule: Chang'e-5 would land on the Moon and return with lunar samples in the second half of 2017.

State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense
China

Made 2016Resolved 2020

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Culture and media

Product launch commitment: Sony would launch PlayStation 3 and new-generation software in spring 2006.

Sony Computer Entertainment
Japan

Made 2005Resolved 2006

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Culture and media

Tourism target: Singapore would attract 17 million annual visitors by 2015.

Singapore Tourism Board
Singapore

Made 2006Resolved 2017

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Culture and media

National aspiration: Malaysia should become a fully developed country by 2020, across economic, political, social and cultural dimensions.

Mahathir Mohamad
Malaysia

Made 1991Resolved 2020

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Food and agriculture

Public assurance: Thailand hoped to clear its last bird-flu outbreak within one or two days.

Thaksin Shinawatra
Thailand

Made 2004Resolved 2004

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Culture and media

Policy expectation: China's total fertility rate would rise to 1.8 births per woman by 2020.

State Council of China
China

Made 2016Resolved 2021

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Economics and finance

Economic forecast: Japan's real GDP would grow approximately 1.4% in fiscal 2020.

Cabinet Office of Japan
Japan

Made 2019Resolved 2021

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Economics and finance

Policy target: China would stabilize annual grain output above 600 million tonnes by 2020.

Government of China
China

Made 2019Resolved 2020

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Economics and finance

Economic forecast: South Korea's real GDP would grow 4.6% in 2010.

Bank of Korea
South Korea

Made 2009Resolved 2012

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Medicine and public health

Public-health strategy target: Cambodia would eliminate locally transmitted P. falciparum malaria by 2020.

World Health Organization and Greater Mekong governments
Cambodia

Made 2015Resolved 2023

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Food and agriculture

Agricultural planning target: Vietnam would produce 41–43 million tonnes of paddy rice in 2020.

Prime Minister of Vietnam
Vietnam

Made 2012Resolved 2020

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