China News Service, Beijing, December 21 (Reporter Wei Xi) The "Report on the Business Environment of China's 296 Prefectural and Above Cities in 2020" was released on the 21st. The business environment of the four first-tier cities of Shenzhen, Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou ranked China In the top four, Chongqing, Chengdu, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Changsha, and Wuhan ranked fifth to tenth.

　　The report was jointly issued by the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Research Institute and the 21st Century Economic Research Institute.

The overall level of the business environment involves six first-level indicators, including soft environment index, market capacity, ecology, social services, infrastructure, business costs, etc.

　　Among 296 cities, Suzhou, Zhuhai, Dongguan and Quanzhou performed well, ranking 14th, 15th, 18th and 19th respectively.

These 4 cities are all prefecture-level cities, among which Suzhou and Quanzhou are the largest economic aggregate cities in Jiangsu and Fujian respectively, and Dongguan is the fourth largest economic aggregate city in Guangdong.

　　The business environment of some second-tier, third-tier and fourth-tier cities ranks high among 296 cities, mainly due to the outstanding performance of some indicators.

For example, Zhuhai's population growth index ranks first in the country, and its soft environment index ranks eighth.

The concentration of fine particles in Zhuhai in 2019 was 25 micrograms per cubic meter, and the ecological environment index score ranked fourth among 296 cities.

　　According to the report, the top five soft environments in 2020 are Shenzhen, Xiamen, Hangzhou, Xi'an, and Beijing.

　　In terms of infrastructure, the 296 cities ranked in the top ten in the infrastructure index are Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Chongqing, Wuhan, Shenzhen, Tianjin, Chengdu, Nanjing, and Hangzhou. These cities are all municipalities or sub-provincial cities.

However, in the top 30 infrastructure cities, many cities far surpass provincial capital cities, such as Wuxi, Fuyang, Nantong, Tangshan, Linyi, and Zhuhai.

　　The above report suggests that cities should learn from the experience of Shanghai, Chengdu, Shenzhen and other places over the years, take the business environment as the top priority of their work, set up long indicators, benchmark advanced indicators, and continue to improve year by year.

　　At the same time, in order to improve the business environment, cities at all levels need to speed up attracting population inflows, enlarge the economic pie, and become hundreds of cities (GDP reaches 1 trillion yuan, 10 million permanent residents, and 1 million market entities).

Among them, Jinan, Ningbo, Hefei, Nanjing, Dongguan, Xi'an, Changsha, Foshan, Changchun and Quanzhou are close to achieving the above goals.

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