定义
一种兼顾未来发展的范式，力求在追求提高生活质量的同时平衡好环境、社会和经济考虑因素。
中国政府对可持续性的认识是社会与环境之间实现和谐发展，从而推动经济、环境和社会成果；涉及绿色发展；造福今世后代。
原文
Adapted from United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), “Education for Sustainable Development | UNESCO,” accessed in 2022, View the Website; Chen Liu et al., “A Chinese Route to Sustainability: Postsocialist Transitions and the Construction of Ecological Civilization,” Sustainable Development 26, no. 6 (2018): 741–48.