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What is a first-tier city? What are Tier 2 cities?

First-tier cities refer to metropolitan areas that play an important role in national political, economic and other social activities and have a leading role and radiating ability. First-tier cities include Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen.

Second-tier cities refer to cities with a certain economic foundation and relatively strong business activity. They are attractive to large companies, brands and outstanding talents, and are becoming or will soon become large companies in the next few years. The focus of the layout. Second-tier cities include Fuzhou, Dalian, Changchun, Quanzhou, etc.

New first-tier cities include Chengdu, Hangzhou, Chongqing, Wuhan, Suzhou, Xi'an, Tianjin, Nanjing, Zhengzhou, Changsha, Shenyang, Qingdao, Ningbo, Dongguan and Wuxi.

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Selection criteria

On April 26, 2018, China Business News·New First-tier Cities Research Institute held the "New First-tier Cities Summit and 2018" "China's City Business Charm Ranking" released the latest issue of the city's business charm list.

Based on the latest year’s business data of 170 brands, user behavior data of 19 Internet companies and urban big data of data institutions, China Business News·New First-tier Cities Research Institute analyzed 338 prefecture-level and above cities in China Cities are ranked again.

This new list follows the previous five-dimension evaluation criteria of business resource concentration, urban hubness, urban people’s activity, lifestyle diversity and future plasticity, and maintains the original Algorithm framework: The weight of the first-level index is calculated by the expert committee of the New First-tier Cities Research Institute, and the data below the second-level index uses the principal component analysis method.

The result of this comprehensive calculation is: the status of the four first-tier cities in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen is still unshakable, but the ranking has changed; the list and ranking of the 15 new first-tier cities have certain changes. Change.

Specifically, the four first-tier cities have changed their positions in their respective two echelons - from "Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen" to "Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen and Guangzhou", followed by Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen and Guangzhou. There are also some changes in the seats of the 15 new first-tier cities, which are Chengdu, Hangzhou, Chongqing, Wuhan, Suzhou, Xi'an, Tianjin, Nanjing, Zhengzhou, Changsha, Shenyang, Qingdao, Ningbo, Dongguan and Wuxi.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-New Classified List of Chinese Cities