The General Administration of Market Regulation approved the publication of the national standard “Index of Urban Services and Quality of Life for Sustainable Cities and Communities”. The standard establishes a quantifiable, comparable, and traceable “scale of measurement” for measuring urban service levels and residents' quality of life. The standard has a total of 122 indicators, divided into three categories: core indicators, auxiliary indicators, and summary indicators. It covers 19 fields such as economy, education, energy, environment and climate change, health, housing, transportation, and safety. The content of the standard highlights the following three aspects. The first is to focus on people's livelihood concerns and build an indicator framework. Key indicators such as life expectancy per capita, primary school student ratio, housing price income ratio, average commute time, average PM2.5 average concentration, emergency alarm response time, etc. have been set around the actual needs of the public, such as medical care, education, housing, environment, and urban safety, which intuitively reflect the actual level of urban public service supply and living quality. The second is to unify the statistical calculation rules for indicators. The statistical caliber and calculation methods of all indicators are unified and standardized to reduce evaluation bias in different cities, and to ensure that evaluation results are horizontally comparable between cities and that data from different periods of time in the same city is vertically traceable. The third is to achieve system docking and compatibility. Establish a mapping relationship between indicators and the sustainable development management system of cities and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, take into account domestic urban governance practices and compatibility with international evaluation systems, and expand standard application scenarios.

The General Administration of Market Regulation approved the publication of the national standard “Index of Urban Services and Quality of Life for Sustainable Cities and Communities”. The standard establishes a quantifiable, comparable, and traceable “scale of measurement” for measuring urban service levels and residents' quality of life. The standard has a total of 122 indicators, divided into three categories: core indicators, auxiliary indicators, and summary indicators. It covers 19 fields such as economy, education, energy, environment and climate change, health, housing, transportation, and safety. The content of the standard highlights the following three aspects. The first is to focus on people's livelihood concerns and build an indicator framework. Key indicators such as life expectancy per capita, primary school student ratio, housing price income ratio, average commute time, average PM2.5 average concentration, emergency alarm response time, etc. have been set around the actual needs of the public, such as medical care, education, housing, environment, and urban safety, which intuitively reflect the actual level of urban public service supply and living quality. The second is to unify the statistical calculation rules for indicators. The statistical caliber and calculation methods of all indicators are unified and standardized to reduce evaluation bias in different cities, and to ensure that evaluation results are horizontally comparable between cities and that data from different periods of time in the same city is vertically traceable. The third is to achieve system docking and compatibility. Establish a mapping relationship between indicators and the sustainable development management system of cities and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, take into account domestic urban governance practices and compatibility with international evaluation systems, and expand standard application scenarios.