6 30, Wharton Economic Research Institute released the list of the top 100 cities in the country in 2022. is more convincing for other lists. First of all, the scope of its evaluation is the top 110 cities in terms of GDP total in 2021. However, based on the seven major aspects of GDP, savings, finance, environment, science and education, culture, and health, the top three are economic hard power, and the last four are economic soft power. Score on a 100-point scale. Among the top 20 cities that represent my country's top level, the minimum threshold for is 57.8. Although cities such as Nantong and Quanzhou are among the top 20 in terms of total GDP, this is after all a matter of comprehensive strength. The advantages of ordinary prefecture-level cities are not Not much, especially in terms of economic soft power.
Most of the top 20 cities are from the eastern coastal areas of , , which once again reflects the economic pattern of my country's strong east and weak west. Except for a few major provinces and capitals, in the entire central and western regions has no chance. From the perspective of province distribution, Jiangsu Province has the most , with a total of three, and Guangdong, Shandong, and Zhejiang each have two. The four places above are also the four strongest provinces in my country.
Chengdu ranks 9th. Among the eight cities that are stronger than Chengdu, in addition to four first-tier cities, there are also Hangzhou, Nanjing, Suzhou and Wuhan. In terms of economic scale, Chengdu ranks second compared with these four cities, only losing to Suzhou. From the perspective of economic soft power, Chengdu has advantages over Suzhou. After all, Suzhou has shortcomings in areas such as science, education, culture, and health. In terms of 's economic soft power, Suzhou ranks only 17th, while Chengdu ranks 6th, losing to Hangzhou and Nanjing. It gives Chengdu a high evaluation in terms of soft power.
What are the shortcomings of Chengdu? has strong economic power. In addition to economic scale, there are gaps between Chengdu and Nanjing, Hangzhou, Suzhou, and Wuhan in all aspects per capita. In the end, Chengdu's total economic hard power score only ranked 14th, losing to Chongqing and Qingdao . Behind Jinan's 14th place is its economic soft power advantage. 's ranking in this list highly affirms Jinan's advantages in environment, science, education, and health. From the perspective of science and education, Jinan has 25 undergraduate universities, Shandong University is among the top 20 985 universities in the country.
Xi’an lost to Fuzhou. Xi'an ranks 11th in the country in terms of economic soft power, and in science and education it reaches 80.52, second only to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Wuhan, and even surpassing Nanjing. and Fuzhou's science and education score is only 54.25. After all, there is only one Fuzhou University, is 211, and only chemistry is a category A subject. Xi'an's shortcoming lies in its hard economic power. GDP, savings, and finance all scored less than 60 points. In the end, its hard economic power ranked only 28th in the country.
