Suzhou ranked seventh in the list of China’s top 100 cities in 2021 released recently.
Since 2015, Wharton Institute of economics has organized the compilation of the annual “Top 100 cities in China” list for seven consecutive years. The list takes the top 110 cities at prefecture level and above in GDP as the annual shortlisted cities, and ranks them according to the comprehensive scores of the following two indicators – hard economy index and soft economy index.
The hard economic index consists of GDP, savings, and finance; Soft economy index is composed of environment, science and education, culture, and health; The score of every single index is composed of its total score and per capita score.
The Institute of new first-tier cities of China first finance and economics released the “2021 City Commercial Charm List”, and Suzhou continued to be listed as “new first-tier cities”. Since the list was released six years ago, Suzhou has been a “regular guest” of “new first-tier cities.
For six consecutive years, the list measured the commercial charm of 337 cities at and above the prefecture-level and above in China by five levels of business resource concentration, urban hub, urban people activity, lifestyle diversity, and future plasticity, through 170 mainstream consumer brand commercial store data, 17 Internet companies’ user behavior data and big data of data institutions in 17 Internet companies in various fields.
“New front line” refers to the city that is most likely to become a “front line” in the future.
In 2021, there were 15 new first-tier cities, of which Jiangsu occupied 2 cities, Suzhou and Nanjing respectively. If we count two new first-tier cities in Zhejiang: Hangzhou and Ningbo, the Yangtze River Delta has four seats, far more than other regions.
According to the seventh national census bulletin of Suzhou, the permanent population of Suzhou is 12.75 million, an increase of 2.29 million people, an increase of 21.88%, compared with the “six people general” population, ranking the first in the province in terms of increment and growth.
The ability of population agglomeration is closely related to the level of economic development of a city. As the largest city in Jiangsu economy, Suzhou has a profound cultural background and excellent livable environment and has strong economic strength. In 2020, its GDP is over 2trillion yuan, ranking sixth in the country; The general public budget revenue reached 23.3 billion yuan, ranking fourth in the country“ More jobs, higher income and higher quality of life are the most important factors for urban agglomeration. ” Analysis of Suzhou people’s general management.