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Sustainable Development Sustainable Development is a economic growth mode that focusing on long-term development, first appearing in 1972. It refers to a mode of human development in which resource use aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment so that these needs not only meet the needs of contemporary, but also prevent the harm to the requirement of future generations. The main problem in todays’ society: Resources crisis. Industrial civilization depends on non-renewable resources (metal ore, coal, oil, natural gas, etc). It is estimated that the reserves of mineral resources on Earth which have proven, the most durable resources can be used in a hundred or two hundred years, but some can just expend in several decades, and the shortage of water resources is also very serious. 97.5% of the water on Earth is salt water, only 2.5% of the water is fresh water can be directly used, and the water is very unevenly distributed. Most of the developing countries is water-scarce. More than 70% of the cities in China exist the water day shortage of more than 1,000 tons, about three million hectares of farmland are affected by drought and perennial use of groundwater is causing about two meters dropped of the water level per year. Land desertification is becoming more and more serious. “Sand” means the lack of water. Water is the condition of the existance of life, 70% of the human body consists of water. Desert means death. Nowadays, because of the forest is cut down and the grassland has been severely damaged, the world desert and desertification area has reached over 47 million square kilometers which occupying 30% of the land area, and it is expanding with the rate of 6 million hectares per year The ever increasing environmental pollution. Environmental pollution includs air pollution, water pollution, noise pollution, solid pollution, pesticide pollution, nuclear pollution and so on. Because large numbers of coal and oil have been burned due to the industr