Research On Evaluation Of Sustainable Development Of Xi'an

Research on Evaluation of sustainable development, a forward positional task highly valued by various scholars both home and broad, has received comparative research achievements. However, since the sustainable development itself is so complex that its index system is yet on an initial stage without a unitive and a strongly operative target. The index system designed particularly for sustainable development of cities, which can be well applied to the demonstration analysis and later arrive at a Quantitative Criterion for testing the level of sustainable development of a city and the research achievements for implement mechanism as well, is desperately needed. This problem may directly affect an actual evaluation for the directions and effects of the sustainable development of cities. Accordingly, it is impossible to supervise the specific practice made for sustainable development of cities to be carried out effectively. Take key cities like Xian for example, based on the assessment theory and model research for sustainable development of cities both home and abroad, how to make an evaluation index with periodic feature of city's sustainable development been involved, and how to inject the new requirement and notion of the city development into formation of this index system, such as "Four Modernizations" for the development of the city of Xi'an, and how to deal with a better relationship among economy, society, resources and environment and to carry out a development index to strength a interactional integrative relation between urban and rural areas, have become a new task for a further evaluations of city's sustainable development. Based on the research achievements of the accessing theory on city's sustainable development both home and abroad, and combined with new problems and characteristics emerging from the period of fast urbanization, this thesis investigates its foundations, principles and approaches for the designing index system, trying to set up an evaluation model and index system for city's sustainable development and carry out a demonstration analysis for the overall abilities of the sustainable development of Xi'an. This paper takes the new concept of "four modernization" into account, and work out a strategic research on the trend of the sustainable development in Xi'an with a final purpose conclude the aims and tactics for the sustainable development of Xi'an.