The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the core framework of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, officially adopted at the 2015 United Nations Summit. They are a global development action plan led by the United Nations and jointly formulated by countries around the world. It includes 17 goals and 169 specific tasks, with the key purpose of "harmonious coexistence between humans and nature". It coordinates the three core dimensions of ecological protection, economic development, and social equity, aiming to promote a more balanced, resilient, and green sustainable development future globally, and solve global challenges such as climate change, poverty, and inequality.

Being practitioners to achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations, Global Geoparks are recognized as a "sustainable development expert" by UNESCO, with a core mission to protect geological heritage, promote geological education, and advance regional sustainable development. As a world natural heritage and a world geopark recognized by UNESCO, Sanqingshan has always been guided by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Based on its own geological heritage, ecological resources and regional characteristics, it has organically integrated geological heritage protection, biodiversity maintenance, eco-tourism development, traditional culture inheritance, and community common prosperity & empowerment, and practiced the SDGs concept with practical actions.