区域可持续发展的哲学理念自提出以来，立即受到全世界范围的广泛响应。但各个团体对区域可持续发展的具体理解又各自不同。本文论述了区域可持续发展评价指标体系构建的必要性及其构建的基本原则。在此基础上，对区域可持续发展评价指标体系构建的大致框架进行了设计，并就指标体系构建中应注意的一系列问题及指标选取中定性与定量的关系问题作了扼要的论述。

t receives wide range respond since the philosophy idea of regional sustainable development was put forward in 1980’s. But various groups of people have their own different understanding of what regional sustainable development means. This paper discusses the necessity of constructing an index system of regional sustainable development and basic principles while constructing the system. We designed a gross framework for the system based on its principles, and finally we discuss concisely the relationship between the qualitative and quantitative indexes while selecting them.