China has made progress in achieving carbon neutrality, with its carbon emissions showing a downward trend in the past 10 years, according to a report published on Wednesday in Beijing.

The report also mentions that in the past 10 years, global greenhouse gas emissions have not been effectively controlled, and the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide has continued to increase at an average annual rate of about six parts per thousand.

Led by the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIRI) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the report evaluated carbon emissions and carbon budgets on the globe and some major countries in the past 40 years.

The report used satellite remote sensing, big data and other technologies to monitor the temporal and spatial changes in carbon dioxide concentrations and quantified the impact of human activities and natural ecosystems on atmospheric carbon dioxide levels.

Wu Yirong, a CAS member and head of the AIRI, said that the report showed that China has reversed its rapid growth of carbon dioxide emissions in the past decade, achieving remarkable results in energy conservation and emission reduction.

The country's carbon sequestration capability, the long-term storage of carbon in plants, soils and geologic formations, has continued to increase, due to its active management for ecological purposes, for example, large-scale afforestation and returning farmland to forests, Wu added.

According to the report, nearly 400 million tonnes of carbon dioxide have been stored every year due to the country's afforestation.

The country's terrestrial ecosystems, an environment on land that includes tundra, grassland and deserts, absorb 1.3 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide annually, accounting for one-tenth of the world's total, it added.

The report also said that China's soil carbon sequestration is the highest, accounting for about a quarter of the global total.

China plans to peak its carbon dioxide emissions before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality before 2060.