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This article first analyzes the problems existing in "Telling China's story well" of ideological and political courses in colleges and universities, discusses the difficulties encountered and then proposes countermeasures, in order to improve the effectiveness of ideological and political teaching in colleges and universities, and provide some reference for the teaching of ideological and political courses in colleges and universities.

China has stepped up efforts to improve its environment quality including the improvement of a legal framework and enforcement of environmental laws and regulations. It has also embarked on promoting green development. While China had won the battle against poverty and set an example for developing countries, whether it could do the same in its battle against pollution remains to be answered.

China is a large country characterized by remarkable growth and distinct regional diversity. Spatial disparity has always been a hot issue since China has been struggling to follow a balanced growth path but still confronting with unprecedented pressures and challenges. To better understand the inequality level benchmarking spatial distributions of Chinese provinces and municipalities and estimate dynamic trajectory of sustainable development in China, I constructed the Composite Index of Regional Development (CIRD) with five sub pillars/dimensions involving Macroeconomic Index (MEI), Science and Innovation Index (SCI), Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI), Human Capital Index (HCI) and Public Facilities Index (PFI), endeavoring to cover various fields of regional socioeconomic development. Ranking reports on the five sub dimensions and aggregated CIRD were provided in order to better measure the developmental degrees of 31 or 30 Chinese provinces and municipalities over 13 years from 1998 to 2010 as the time interval of three "Five-year Plans". Further empirical applications of this CIRD focused on clustering and convergence estimation, attempting to fill up the gap in quantifying the developmental levels of regional comprehensive socioeconomics and estimating the dynamic convergence trajectory of regional sustainable development in a long run. Four clusters were benchmarked geographically-oriented in the map on the basis of cluster analysis, and club-convergence was observed in the Chinese provinces and municipalities based on stochastic kernel density estimation.