Original title: official list of 2019 new first tier cities released: what's your city's ranking? (ranking of 337 cities attached)
Everyone who has experienced the city, even if they have the same occupation and similar experience, can easily put forward different requirements for the city - from the house they live in, the income they work, the appearance of the street, the comfort of the natural environment, to caring about who lives in the same city with.
Only by truly collecting thousands of answers about the expectations of urban life can we describe our ideal life.
In the fourth year of the ranking list of urban commercial charm produced by the Institute of new first tier cities. As in previous years, we collected commercial store data of 170 mainstream consumer brands, user behavior data of 18 Internet companies in various fields and urban big data of data institutions, and evaluated 337 cities at prefecture level and above in China according to the five dimensional indexes of commercial resource agglomeration, urban hub, urban people's activity, lifestyle diversity and future plasticity. The algorithm is also consistent with the past: the final result is obtained by integrating the scoring method of the expert committee of the Institute of new first tier cities and the principal component analysis method.
In last year's list, the first tier cities slightly fine tuned and changed their seats, but this year they changed back, and the ranking is still north, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen.
In 2019, the 15 new first tier cities are Chengdu, Hangzhou, Chongqing, Wuhan, Xi'an, Suzhou, Tianjin, Nanjing, Changsha, Zhengzhou, Dongguan, Qingdao, Shenyang, Ningbo and Kunming. The ranking of the first four new first tier cities is relatively stable, while Wuxi has fallen out of this echelon again after 2017.
In the list of new first tier cities, there are 5 cities in the north and 10 cities in the south. In addition to the 3:1 pattern of the first tier cities, the North-South difference has indeed surpassed the gap between the East and the west, and has become an important feature of the competition pattern between China's top cities.
Kunming has become the only new city on the list of new first tier cities this year. Its significant growth appears in talent attraction - the ranking of this index was only 23 in the country last year and has risen to 12th this year. At the same time, various indicators of lifestyle diversity in Kunming have also made leaps and bounds.
In recent years, people in new first tier cities are willing to try new lifestyles, and their demand for cities has become diversified. Northeast cities, which lack emerging industrial direction, slow pace and have not changed much in decades, obviously can not meet people's long cherished wish of ideal life. Shenyang is now the only new first tier city in Northeast China, ranking 17th among all cities, down 3 places from 2016.
In this year's index setting, we have focused on the attitudes of young people. Not only college students with higher education, but also young people aged 18 to 35 who have a foothold in the city and work hard to live by their own skills are the future of the city. Under the dimension of future plasticity, we have added two three-level indicators: young people's index and young people's consumption power index. At the same time, the only northern cities in the top 20 of these two indicators are Beijing and Tianjin.
In the current Chinese urban context, people's longing for a better life is actually a continuous demand for the diversity of urban life. Cities with more open, open and inclusive temperament naturally become gathering places for more young people.
In the whole algorithm framework, the data constituting the primary dimension index comes from 19 secondary dimensions and 79 tertiary dimensions - if expanded to the fourth dimension, the number of indicators has exceeded 100. In the May issue of yimagazine and the report volume of 2019 city business charm ranking list sold online, we listed all 79 three-level dimension indicators under the five dimensions of the evaluation framework of cities in turn. You will find that the index change curves of all cities have their own obvious characteristics. No city as like as two peas, no two identical shapes. Every city tries to seize the opportunity and go further in the field of expertise.
If each shape is a form of the city, in this way, the development of the city is far more than 10000 possibilities.
The following will explain the specific consideration dimensions and calculation methods of the five indicators:
A. Concentration degree of commercial resources
For four consecutive years, the new first tier cities Research Institute has used the rational and rigorous location logic of the business world to measure the commercial strength of each city. The degree of commercial resource agglomeration is based on this logic. It comprehensively evaluates the degree of urban commercial resource agglomeration by considering the popularity of mainstream consumer brands, the strength of urban business circles and the maturity of basic commerce.
The gap between North and South commercial strength has obviously widened further. The average ranking of commercial resource agglomeration in northwest, North China and Northeast China declined collectively, and the ranking of cities in South and East China rose as a whole.
Corresponding to the decline of cities in the northeast, the Pearl River Delta cities in the South have been more favored by big brands and their commercial strength has increased significantly in the past year.
In 2018, at least 15 large shopping centers opened in Guangzhou, and Guangzhou's big brand preference index surpassed Shenzhen and Chengdu for the first time since 2016, rising to the third in China. Among the 170 mainstream consumer brands monitored by the commercial database of new first tier cities, the overall increment of Foshan consumer brand stores ranked eighth in China in 2018.
Building huge urban complexes and gorgeous and regular business districts is not the only way for cities to enhance their attraction to commercial brands. Restaurants, supermarkets, convenience stores, clothing stores, these small businesses have more significance to urban space than providing a 'sense of life'. Developed basic commerce and strong flavor of life are also rare commercial charm of the city.
Chengdu, Chongqing, Dongguan and other new first tier cities have a high level of basic commercial development. As of February 2019, Dongguan has 39537 convenience stores, ranking first in the country, surpassing all first tier cities; The number of food and clothing stores in Chengdu also exceeds that in Shanghai.
B. Urban hub
The significance of measuring urban hub is that we can understand how many regional advantages cities can obtain from their endowments and how these advantages play a role in the real urban system.
Since the index of urban hub was initially established, we have tried to understand the network built by each city and its surrounding cities from the three areas of regional centrality of transportation, logistics and commercial resources.
Based on the actual flight data of aviation, high-speed rail and highway, we establish a complex network model based on traffic connection, and obtain the traffic connection degree of each city in the whole urban network system. Combined with the intercity transportation infrastructure index summarized from various transportation infrastructure data, we can roughly measure the transportation hub status of each city.
A total of 69% of the high-speed railway stations in Southwest China have been put into operation in the last three years. These new high-speed railway stations make the southwest become the region with the number of high-speed railway stations second only to East China and central China.
Of course, it is not only the means of transport and the people they carry that move between cities. Based on the comprehensive calculation of the number of logistics sites, logistics timeliness and package volume provided by Alibaba group, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Chongqing, Jinhua, Chengdu and Wuhan are the top non first tier cities in terms of logistics accessibility.
Beijing and Xi'an have the first commercial advantage in North China and Northwest China respectively, and have a certain radiation power to the economic hinterland. This reflects the degree of agglomeration of commercial resources in Beijing and Xi'an, that is, their commercial hub.
C. Urban activity
People are the real vitality of the city. It is people's needs and interests that create the vitality of the city.
Besides the first tier cities, Hangzhou, Chengdu, Chongqing, Suzhou and Nanjing are among the top 5 cities in the city people's activity index. Mobile Internet user behavior data and real urban data together constitute the urban life of modern society.
The online platform breaks the limitation of time and space and brings more choices to urban life. At the same time, it also records the trajectory of people's consumption and social interaction. With the further integration of online and offline life in the city, user behavior data from various platforms has increasingly become the best data source to check the activity in the city. People's consumption and social networking are no longer limited by the scale of the city itself. Platforms such as takeout, online shopping and overseas shopping break through people's life radius and expand their tentacles to the whole country and even the world.
Consumption activity and social activity jointly construct the measurement index of urban comprehensive vitality. The consumption capacity of coastal cities is still significantly stronger than that of other regions. The consumption activity of Hangzhou is second only to Shanghai and exceeds that of other first tier cities; Chengdu and Chongqing in Southwest China are more willing to share life.
Rich nightlife produces urban nighttime economic benefits, and diversified nighttime economy in turn increases the vitality and sense of security of the city. Night activity index has always been used to judge the activity of people in cities from the perspective of time differentiation. Based on the night light data of the city photographed by satellite, people's night behavior, night business and night service in the city are superimposed to comprehensively show the appearance of the city after dark.
The night activity of southeast coastal cities and inland regional central cities is relatively higher. Similar to the Heihe Tengchong line, the nocturnal activity index in the southeast is significantly higher than that in the northwest, which also forms an obvious segmentation zone.
D. Lifestyle diversity
The lifestyle of modern urban people has been upgraded from the traditional basic necessities of life to a richer level.
Diverse living needs have spawned different forms of places in the city, and the upgrading and innovation of places has brought new experiences to urban people. From the perspective of the city, the collection of these spaces and users' behavior habits constitute the lifestyle of a city.
Like last year's list, we will sort out all the lifestyle related data collected from the three dimensions of freshness, consumption diversity and leisure richness to measure the diversity of all urban lifestyles.
The freshness index evaluates the scale and variety of various places in the city.
Minority sports space enriches people's sports choices, and cafes provide a soil for vitality and innovation. In addition, the exhibition halls, bookstores, cinemas and other activity spaces in the city have constructed a city's leisure culture network.
These spaces not only have the symbolic significance of enriching life, but also highlight different urban characteristics. There are many museums in Xi'an and Luoyang, and the number of bookstores in Wuhan exceeds that in Guangzhou and Shanghai.
Consumption diversity index and leisure richness index belong to the evaluation of users' behavior and habits. Among them, consumption diversity can be understood as the release of urban consumption power in various fields of lifestyle. Leisure richness observes the activity of urban people in sports, reading, audio and video broadcasting, tourism and so on.
As a typical low-frequency and large consumption, the connotation of tourism is changing rapidly in recent years. People's demand for diversified destinations, high-quality accommodation and characteristic routes also means people's higher demand for ideal life.
E. Future plasticity
Future plasticity describes the future potential of cities.
Compared with last year, this year is an indicator of future plasticity