Development is the premise of sustainable development: people are the focus of sustainable development; education for sustainable development (ESD) is based on the needs of sustainable development and education. "China - Sweden's Training of Collaboratively Comparative Research on ESD" organized by Yunnan provincial Federation of Social Science Circle and Swiss International programme office (IPO) launched the new exploration to the creative idea of ESD. In the graduate course named "ESD Research", graduates and scholars air their own views on ESD.