Population Quality and Sustainable Development

Sustainable development is a new devefopment ideology commonly acknowledged and a global development strategy in future. From the angle of the relationships between population quality and sustainable development, this paper analyses the functions and impact of population quality on the achieving way and supporting capacity of sustainable development, through confining the definition of POpulation quality and on the basis of the author understanding of the conception and connotation of sustainable devel0Pment. The paper holds that economic growth is one of the significant ways to sustainable development and that population quality is a key factor for economic growth and plays a key role in it. The paper also holds that roource environment is the supporting capacity for sustainable development and that the sustainability of resource environment cannot be maintained without the irnprovement of population quality. The paper draws the conclusion that population quality is a very important factor to and has a key function and impact on sustainable development. According to this conclusion, the paper puts forward some strategic suggestions for improving population quality and further for the realization of sustainable development.