Beijing ranks first among 200-odd Chinese cities for its competitive power in the fields of talents and science and technology, according to news from Sunday's ceremony on the first publication of the blue book entitled "Report (NO.1) on the Competitive Power of Chinese Cities" by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS).
Published by the Social Science Documents Publishing House, the report was the crystallization of wisdom of nearly one hundred experts led by Ni Pengfei with the Institute of Finance and Trade Economics, CASS, after more than half a year's studies. The report made analysis and evaluation of the comprehensive competitiveness of 200 Chinese sample cities at or above the prefectural level from various angles by adopting the three methods of cases, calculation and investigation and using more than 100 indexes of various types, and listed the top 50. The top 10 are Hong Kong, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Beijing, Macao, Guangzhou, Dongguan, Suzhou, Tianjin and Ningbo.
Besides, the report also publishes a list of 47 most competitive cities in 12 sub-indexes, among which Beijing took the first place in talent competitive power and sci-tech innovative capability, as well as the second place in its competitive capital, facilities and location respectively.
Beijing has a concentration of the country's largest multitude and most outstanding talents and research institutes. It also boasts the highest index of capital in financial institutions, but its capital quality remains to be improved. Beijing leads the country in sci-tech strength and innovative capability and has strong basic research ability, but its ability to apply, develop and transform scientific research results into production remains to be strengthened.
(People's Daily March 5, 2003)
