Abstract: The development and characteristic of agricultural Sustainability Indicators System(SIs), at home and abroad, was reviewed. It was pointed out that the existed domestic methods of sustainability evaluation can not be accepted by foreign scholars, and its scientific basis is inadequate. The experience and shortcomings of previous studies on indicators selection and evaluation methods were analyzed, also with the significance for practice. At the end, a new SIs for agricultural development evaluation was proposed, together with the corresponding calculation and evaluation methods. The Farmer Development Index indicator was proposed to embody the viewpoint that the development of people is the ultimate aim; the dynamic weight calculation method was designed to reflect the different importance of different indicators when their values are changing; and new indicators integrate methods were also explored.

Key words: Agriculture, Sustainability, Indicators system