What do the sustainable development goals reveal, and are they sufficient for sustainable development?

• Bing Wang,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Public Administration, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, China

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• Tianchi Chen

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: d202081314@hust.edu.cn

  Affiliation College of Public Administration, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9321-7310

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