A study on the relationship between scientific and technological progress and the sustainable development

China has attached great importance to the sustainable development under the new situation, and also put the sustainable development and the economic, political, cultural and ecological civilization construction in a prominent position. Science and technology, which are the intrinsic motivation of developing the advanced productive forces, advanced culture, and realizing the fundamental interests of the masses, play a very important role in the process of the sustainable development. This paper first discusses the role of progress of science and technology in the sustainable development of man and nature and the transformation of the economic growth mode and the political construction. Secondly, elaborating the factors, which are the quality improvement, sustainable development strategies and the government, would guarantee the benign development of the sustainable development. Finally, this paper puts forward the countermeasures and suggestions about how to effectively promote and use scientific and technological progress, accelerate the sustainable development. One is to increase investment in university research and promote scientific and technological innovation; two is to strengthen the scientific and technological innovation, vigorously develop science and technology and alleviate human ecological crisis; three is to strengthen the scientific and technological innovation, and the cognizant of the order of nature and achieve the harmony between man and nature. In short, the progress of science and technology would promote the sustainable development and the sustainable development is also inseparable from the support and promotion of science and technology.