In choosing indicators, we propose the following 5 value compositions and 4 areas to build a framework.

	Capacity and Resource	Fairness across Time	Fairness across Space	Diversity	Human Will and Networking
Nature	resource cycling, water/ soil/ air	climate change	climate change	biodiversity	environmental education
Economy	energy, resource productivity, food	finance	food, international cooperation	energy	international cooperation
Society	security	tradition/ culture	mobility	gender and minority, tradition and culture	money flow
Well-being	health	wealth gap	wealth gap	participation in community	life satisfaction, academic performance and education level, health, participation in community

Standards of choosing indicators

In doing the difficult task of choosing 20 indicators, we have used the following standards as our guidelines. These indicators are not selected to cover all aspects of sustainability; they are what we consider to be “headline indicators” that help us measure a certain important aspects of sustainability.

• Representative / Important : Is it important?
• Relevant: Is it relevant to the vision and other indicators?
• Practical: Is it practical? Are there evidences to support it?
• Symbolic: Is it symbolic? Is it a focus of public concern?
• Understandable: Is it understandable to wider public?
• Comparable: Is it comparable with international standards and past data?
• Process-oriented: Does it allow us to understand the process and close the gap between the phenomena and the root cause?
• Multi-stakeholder oriented: Is it meaningful for multi-stakeholders?
• Fairness: Is it fair to other regions and countries?

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