Dear friends, Uncle Cheng wants to share a serious (advanced) report with you today.
Just now, at 2 a.m. Beijing time, a global ranking of cities-the World cities Register 2018-compiled by the Global and World cities (GaWC) Research Network, was officially released.
As the most famous city rating agency in the world, GaWC has published the World cities Register from time to time since 2000 to determine the location of a city in the world city network by testing the knowledge flow of inter-city finance, specialty and innovation.
The list is considered the world's most authoritative ranking of the world's cities, and GaWC uses its unique perspective to Alpha,Beta,Gamma,Sufficiency (/ -) cities (i.e., the global 1234). To show the location and integration of cities in a globalized economy.
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Look at this year's ranking, first is the Alpha level (the world's first-tier cities).
Alpha: London, New York
Alpha: Hong Kong, Beijing, Singapore, Shanghai, Sydney, Paris, Dubai, Tokyo
Alpha: Milan, Chicago, Moscow, Toronto, S ã o Paulo, Frankfurt, Los Angeles, Madrid, Mexico City, Kuala Lumpur, Seoul, Jakarta, Mumbai, Miami, Brussels, Taipei, Guangzhou, Buenos Aires, Zurich, Warsaw, Istanbul, Bangkok, Melbourne
Alpha-: Amsterdam, Stockholm, San Francisco, New Delhi, Santiago, Johannesburg, Dublin, Vienna, Montreal, Lisbon, Barcelona, Luxembourg, Santa Fe Bogot á, Manila, Washington, Prague, Munich, Rome, Riyadh, Budapest, Houston, Shenzhen
The status of London and New York is unshakable. The change in first-tier cities around the world this year is that Hong Kong is ahead of the top three, with Beijing entering the top four for the first time, while globalization, which represents the city of Singapore, has fallen from third to fifth. In addition, Shenzhen from Beta to Alpha-, into the world for the first time into the ranks of first-tier cities.
At the Beta level (second-tier cities in the world), 13 cities in China are on the list:
Beta: Chengdu, Hangzhou
Beta: Tianjin, Nanjing, Wuhan
Beta-: Chongqing, Suzhou, Dalian, Xiamen, Changsha, Shenyang, Qingdao, Jinan
Among them, many of the new first-tier cities have achieved a cross-level jump:
Chengdu from Beta- to Beta, Hangzhou Gamma to Beta, Tianjin from Beta- to Beta, Nanjing from Gamma to Beta, Wuhan from Gamma- to Beta.
As the leader of the new first-tier city, Chengdu's rising speed continues to "hang up."
In the last ranking, Chengdu's performance was referred to as a "violent pull-up," as it went up four grades to Beta-, as the fastest-rising city of all cities. Today, Chengdu rose to 71, leaping 2 levels to Beta, maintaining its position as a leader in new first-tier cities.
Chengdu's ambition should not be underestimated: it has set the strategic goal of "three steps" in the new era, and put forward that by the middle of the world, it will build a modern new Tianfu in an all-round way and become a world city with sustainable development.
In the longer-term dimension, it is more intuitive to feel that "the ability of Chinese cities to connect to the world is on the rise."
In 2000, there were only five Chinese cities in the top 100 of the GaWC list: Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Taipei and Guangzhou.
By 2013, the situation was not change, even in the country's first-tier cities, such as Shenzhen, are still outside the 100;
In the previous ranking (2016), Shenzhen and Chengdu rose sharply to seven of the top 100 cities in China;
This year, the number expanded to 11, including Hangzhou, Tianjin, Nanjing and Wuhan.
According to the report's main authors, GaWC deputy directors Ben Dillard and Cather Payne, the world's urban layout has been tilted towards the Asia-Pacific region, while the world's cities may enter the "China Century" as more Chinese cities join it.
At an academic conference held in Nanjing not long ago, Peter Taylor, a member of the Royal Academy of Social Sciences and founder and director of the GaWC, also said that the overall connectivity of Chinese cities is constantly improving. The change will also trigger a new round of globalisation speculation, which he himself is optimistic about the rapid rise of Chinese cities in the future.
Despite the remarkable pace of urban growth in China, it is important to note that only six of the 55 Alpha-rated cities (Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Taipei, Guangzhou, Shenzhen) are in China.
For more Chinese cities, there is still plenty of room for global integration.