What is a first-tier city and what is a second-tier city?

1. A first-tier city refers to a metropolis that plays an important role in national politics, economy and other social activities and has the ability to lead and radiate.

Mainly reflected in the level of urban development, comprehensive economic strength, radiation-driven ability, talent attraction, information exchange ability, international competitiveness, scientific and technological innovation ability, traffic accessibility and so on. First-tier cities play a leading role in national social activities such as production, service, finance, innovation, circulation and comprehensive business index.

First-tier cities in Chinese mainland generally refer to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen.

2. Second-tier cities are mostly provincial capitals, economically strong cities in the eastern region or regional central cities with developed economies.

Second-tier cities have a certain economic foundation and relatively strong business activity, which are attractive to large companies, brands and outstanding talents, and are or will soon become the focus of the layout of large companies in the next few years.

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Urban classification

In addition to the traditional hard indicators such as GDP scale in 20 12, per capita income of residents, and the number of top 500 enterprises in the airport, on the basis of synthesizing these first-hand data, the media conducted the first-line brand entry density, the number of first-line brands, GDP, per capita income, 2 1 1 universities, the number of Fortune 500 companies, and so on.

According to a specific formula, the comprehensive business index of each city is comprehensively calculated, and based on this ranking, 400 cities are completely graded.

According to the international understanding, the city in the modern sense is the product of industrial and commercial development, and it is a place for the exchange of funds, talents, commodities and information. K.J. Barton, a famous British urban economist, defines a city as "a network system in which various economic markets-housing, labor, land, transportation, etc.". -all intertwined in a limited space area. "

After more than 30 years of reform and opening up, China's urban development is actually breaking through the shackles of administrative levels and getting closer to a modern city driven by business. This breakthrough means that cities can be classified according to the prosperity of industry and commerce, and the necessity is more and more urgent.

Based on the latest year's brand data of 160, user behavior data of 17 internet companies and data of big cities of data institutions, CBN New First-tier Cities Research Institute ranks 338 cities above prefecture level in China again.

The latest ranking of 20 17 cities' commercial charm follows five indicators of the previous year: concentration of commercial resources, urban hub, urban crowd activity, lifestyle diversity and future plasticity, but some adjustments have been made in the analysis algorithm: the expert committee of the new first-tier city research institute is invited to assign weights to the five indicators, and the expert scoring method is adopted to incorporate them into the scoring system; The principal component analysis method is used to objectively weight the data below the secondary index.

reference data

Baidu Encyclopedia-China City New Rank Ranking