True measure of performance

Green GDP is needed to adjust officials' concepts of political achievement, says an article in Southern Metropolis Daily. The following is an excerpt:

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said recently that it was hard to demonstrate the economic cost of environmental deterioration, as there is no worldwide standard for the calculation of Green GDP. Besides calculation problems, another reason given by the NBS for postponing the Green GDP was that no other country had officially publicized their results.

However, the calculation of Green GDP in other countries is normally done by non-governmental organizations, so it is not common for governments to publicize the results. To realize sustainable development, China has a greater demand for a Green GDP calculation system.