On October 21st, A.T. Kearney, a global management consulting firm, released its 2024 Global City Rankings. Almost all Chinese cities in the list have risen in the global rankings, demonstrating the strong resilience and potential of Chinese cities in terms of economic development and internationalization.
Nanjing's performance was particularly impressive, rising from 93rd place globally last year to 83rd this year, not only making the greatest progress among the top 100 Chinese cities, but also achieving its highest ranking ever.
In this year's Global City Rankings, a total of 31 cities in China are on the list, of which Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong are among the world's top 10, and 13 cities are ranked among the world's top 100.
Among them, the Yangtze River Delta became the city group that contributed the most cities to the list this year. In addition to first-tier cities such as Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou and other major provincial capitals, Suzhou entered the world's top 100 for the first time, and Ningbo, Hefei and Wuxi ranked among the world's top 150.
In this regard, A.T. Kearney pointed out in its Global Cities Index Report 2024 that, as the benchmark of China's city clusters, the Yangtze River Delta has demonstrated outstanding resilience in the face of uncertainties in the global economy. As industrial support continues to be strengthened and inter-city exchanges and interconnections become closer, synergies between provincial capitals and neighboring cities in industries such as automobiles, new energy, high-value-added industrial goods, and consumer goods will be further deepened, realizing the overall prosperity of the city cluster.
Compared with the "Global Innovation Index" released by the United Nations World Intellectual Property Organization and the "Global Livability Report" released by The Economist, A.T. Kearney's "Comprehensive Ranking of Global Cities" gives more prominence to the concept of "city", including five dimensions of business activities, human capital, information exchange, cultural experience, and political affairs. "A.T. Kearney's Global City Ranking emphasizes the concept of "city" and includes five dimensions, including business activities, human capital, information exchange, cultural experience, and political affairs, with a total of 31 indicators. The criteria span the political, economic and cultural fields to assess the most influential and competitive cities in the world, quantify the advantages of the world's leading cities, reveal the laws behind the global urbanization process, and show the future trends. It is worth mentioning that in the current process of global urbanization, digital capabilities, digital economy, digital service trade, etc. are strongly driving the performance of cities' business activities, thus strengthening their core competitiveness. Taking into account the new drivers in the current global urbanization development, theThis year, the "Global City Ranking" has fine-tuned the evaluation index system, especially the introduction of two new indicators, namely Internet speed and the number of data centers, which has contributed to the rapid improvement of Nanjing's city ranking. In the face of the new wave of digital economic development, Nanjing has seized the opportunity to lay out the arithmetic infrastructure construction. In the first half of this year, the city has built and under construction data centers can carry the number of cabinets 180,000, accounting for about 40% in the province, built four public computing services can provide public computing center, computing power scale of more than 2,000P, ranked first in the province, Nanjing Computing Center was selected as one of the first batch of the country's new generation of artificial intelligence public computing power open innovation platform.
The Implementing Opinions on Promoting the Construction of Data Base System and Better Utilizing the Role of Data Elements (Draft for Public Comments) issued by the Nanjing Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government proposes that, by 2025, a sound system of data categorization and hierarchical security protection applicable to the big data environment will be established, data openness and fusion application will be expanded, data products and data services will be enriched, and the quantity and quality of data elements supply will be improved. The total scale of the city's data center has reached 250,000 standard racks, with a total computing power of over 8.5E FLOPS (FP32), and a co-ordinable intelligent computing power of over 6,000P FLOPS (FP16).
"Chinese cities continue to make new leaps in competitiveness on the international stage and are expected to maintain their growth momentum, further consolidating and enhancing China's competitiveness in the global landscape." A.T. Kearney partner Zhou Pengyuan said.
