Fifteen Chinese cities were named as new first-tier cities in 2024, news portal yicai.com reported on Thursday.
The evaluation was based on five primary criteria: concentration degree of commercial resources, urban transport capacity, vitality of urban population, new economic competitiveness and future potential, it also has 16 secondary criteria, and 61 third-level criteria, to assess the overall attractiveness of 337 cities at prefecture-level or above.
The 15 new first-tier cities in 2024 in terms of their degree of attractiveness are: Chengdu, Hangzhou, Chongqing, Suzhou, Wuhan, Xi'an, Nanjing, Changsha, Tianjin, Zhengzhou, Dongguan, Wuxi, Ningbo, Qingdao, and Hefei.
