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Abstract The construction industry in China is trying very hard to achieve sustainable development. Meanwhile, it is important to balance the pursuit of stakeholders and addresses the obstacles encountered by these stakeholders. There are few studies that have comprehensively discussed how to combine co-benefits with stakeholder theory to tackle conflicts of interests and achieve co-benefits in Chinese construction industry. This study adopts grey theory to collect and integrate professional suggestions from different experts into indexes that can be compared and analyzed. Then, Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution is used to rank the stakeholders as well as criteria for selecting the optimum alternative, and uses the crawler technology to gain each criterion’s weight for each stakeholder. Our research results show that the stakeholders of suppliers, firms, and the sustainable community are deemed to have priority to achieve co-benefits. The main criteria to consider in achieving co-benefits are transferring technology developments, respecting cultural habitats and traditions, and environment pollution controls. The main contributions are as follows: (1) theoretically, the basis for stakeholders to estimate the co-benefits was obtained (2) the corresponding mixed method to conduct the assessment was developed in Chinse construction industry.