The essential of sustainable development is the harmonization between population, resources and environment in order to gain the aim of social and economic sustainable development The region, especially at the provincial level, plays a very important role in the implementation of sustainable development strategy China's various provinces (regions) differ greatly both in terms of their natural resources endowment and in terms of their social and economic development To evaluate the sustainable status quo of each province and region properly is of great help to understand China's progress in sustainable development With the reference to various sustainable evaluation systems, a new synthesized sustainable evaluation system, which tries to assess the sustainable development status quo from the facet of economic development, social development, resources endowment & environmental status quo and sustainability is constructed in this article In the process of assigning weight to each factor, an Improved Analysis of Hierarchical Process (IAHP) is adopted, which can both reduce the objectivity of evaluation and simplify the calculation process According to this synthesized sustainable evaluation system, the sustainable status quo of China's 31 provinces (municipalities,autonomous regions) are assessed respectively Then, according to their evaluation score in sustainable development, these provinces (municipalities,autonomous regions) are divided into 6 different types: very high level type, including Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin, Guangdong; high level type, including Zhejiang, Fujian, Heilongjiang, Liaoning, Jiangsu, Jilin and Shandong; upper middle level type, including Yunnan, Chongqing, Inner Mongolia, Hubei, Guangxi, Shanxi, Xinjiang, Hunan and Hainan; lower middle level type, including Sichuan, Qinghai, Hebei, Ningxia and Gansu; low level type, including Anhui, Henan, Shaanxi and Jiangxi; and very low level type, including Tibet and Guizhou The status quo of China's sustainable development unfold the degression trend of coastal area→along the border→middle part→middle→western part