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The Chinese city tier system (Chinese: 中国城市等级制) is an unofficial hierarchical classification of Chinese cities in the People's Republic of China (PRC). There are no such official lists in the country, as the Chinese government does not publish or recognize any official definition or a list of cities included in the tier system.
Because of this, prefecture-level cities often overlap in area with county-level cities. Four cities are centrally administered municipalities, which include dense urban areas, suburbs, and large rural areas: Chongqing (32.05 million [3]), Shanghai (24.87 million [3]), Beijing (21.89 million [3]), and Tianjin (13.87 million [3]).
Shanghai is China's most populous urban area, [8] [9] while Chongqing is its largest city proper, the only city in China with the largest permanent population of over 30 million. [ 10 ] As of 2020, there were 113 Chinese cities with over 1 million people in urban areas.
By its political level, when a "city" is referred to, it can be a: LV 1 (provincial-level): Municipality of China, literally "direct-controlled city" in Chinese, there being actually four: Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and Chongqing; LV 2 (prefecture-level): Sub-provincial city, for example, Shenzhen in Guangdong Province
List of top municipalities and prefecture-level divisions by GDP [1] Nominal GDP is based on the official annual average exchange rate at CN¥ 6.7366 per US dollar in 2022 ; [ 2 ] CN¥3.988 per Int'l. dollar (according to World Economic Outlook published by IMF in October 2022 publication) [ 3 ]
In 2007, Qingdao was named as one of China's top ten cities by the Chinese Cities Brand Value Report. [13] In 2009, Qingdao was named China's most livable city by the Chinese Institute of City Competitiveness. [14] [15] In 2018, Qingdao held the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit. [16]
Moreover, the financial news portal Yicai.com released its 2017 ranking of China's new first-tier cities, and Changsha was a newcomer. [62] As of 2020, more than 164 Global 500 companies have established branches in Changsha. [63] As a new first-tier city, Changsha is rated #10 in terms of its commercial worth. [64]
In 2016, Guiyang was named as the Best-Performing City in China by the Milken Institute owing to the city's "growth in jobs, wages, gross domestic product (GDP)." [ 22 ] Guizhou Province saw the third-fastest growth among China's 31 regional districts in the first half of the year, growing by 10.5%. [ 23 ]