Based on the theory and current improvements of fundamental orientations of system and coupled with household pasture characteristics

an evaluation system and a set of indicators for sustainable development on the scale of household pasture were put forward.The system attributes and characteristics impacting on the sustainable development were examined by analyzing 30 households in Inner Mongolia in terms of information entropy weighting

grey relational analysis(GRA)

and data envelopment analysis(DEA).Results show that the evaluation system is suitable for both single-sample assessment in temporal dimensionality and the comparison of multi-samples in spatial dimensionality on the small scale.Activities and decisions in economy and live aspects drive household pasture to change the level of sustainable development

which is characterized mainly by economic benefits and the standard of living.The level of sustainable development evaluated for different household pasture is not the same.The suggested grassland area less than 200 hm2 possessed by a household is a disadvantage factor for the sustainable development.System attributes for households with high or low sustainability demonstrate imbalance.However

moderate sustainable households show a balance status for each system attribute.