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The New Year is coming as scheduled, with the first tweet of the new year.
In the past year of restart, China's economy has stepped out of a recovery curve that is picking up. Under the overall situation, some cities are looking for a way to break the situation in the complex and changeable situation, some cities are taking root in the new track and trying to stand out, some cities abandon mediocrity and shout "I want to be famous", and there are cities slowing down and waiting to solve the difficulties of transformation.
Looking forward to 2024, China's economic recovery is still at a critical stage. The global economy may grow slowly, be highly sensitive, and undergo deep transformations, and the outlook will become more complex. But no matter what the road ahead, action has its value. Looking ahead, which cities will be able to break through the pattern and fight for an upward channel?
We took a look at nearly 700 tweets published over the past year to identify the top 10 cities with the most prospects for the new year. This is the third time that Urban Evolution has released the annual list of cities, from the focus city in the first year, to the potential city, and then to the prospect city this year, we hope to stand in the perspective of a city observer, discover the trend, and provide some judgment and insight for followers.
Sailing against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat. Sometimes a 1% difference can determine the champion, runner-up or even more rankings, such as city GDP, transportation mileage, etc. Emphasizing the 1% gap may be a spur for cities on the track, but it is always a measure of future sustainability.
That's why we're also focused on urban resilience. "The wind blows the grass and does not break, and the weak pole is strong. "As the global economy becomes more complex and uncertain, economic resilience is becoming increasingly important to enable cities to quickly adjust, adapt and return to a robust growth path in the face of external shocks to achieve sustainable economic development.
Change is the biggest constant. In the next city reshuffle, there are still many "hard battles" to be fought. New challengers are emerging one after another, the old spire cities are also reinventing themselves, and the regional pattern is constantly being rewritten, which is probably the most attractive part of the development of the times.
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First-class cities are returning to "strong industrial cities", and as the largest economic city in China, Shanghai is no exception.
In the past year, Shanghai's manufacturing industry has refreshed its history by attracting investment and opening a series of activities of "Invest in Shanghai and Go Global", which not only seizes the global market, but also interacts frequently with the two world-class urban agglomerations of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
The so-called "reverse" investment promotion is not to pinch the tip and dig into the wall, but to open up Shanghai's high-end industrial elements such as talent, technology, capital, and data to inland enterprises. From the local point of view, what it pursues is the synergistic effect of 1+1>2, and explores a new path of regional coordinated development that shows off its strengths, complements each other's advantages, and develops in dislocation.
Looking at the whole country, as the "big brother" of industry, Shanghai's leading role is not only reflected in the Yangtze River Delta, but also needs cross-provincial and cross-regional industrial cooperation, further extending to more regions such as the Yangtze River Economic Belt, realizing the coordinated and balanced development of the regional economy, and making greater contributions to regional integration and high-quality development.
Looking inward, Shanghai's future goal is to be a global economic center city, in order to achieve this goal, it is necessary to have both quantitative growth and qualitative improvement, to let more high-end factor resources interchange, to take the lead in the exploration of new industrialization, and to participate in global competition on behalf of the country.
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September 2019260,000 units, 10930,000 units, 29950,000 units, 84 in 2022880,000 units, in the first three quarters of 2023, 12350,000 units. This is the "violent pull" growth curve drawn by Shenzhen's new energy vehicle production in the past few years.
The proportion of Shenzhen's share in the national ** has also increased from 7 in 201946%, a significant increase to December 202212%, becoming more and more an important role that cannot be ignored.
In the surging new energy vehicle industry, Shenzhen is becoming a new disruptor. Since 2023, when Shanghai and Xi'an are still chasing me for who can win the "first city of new energy vehicles", Shenzhen has quietly launched a "surprise attack" from behind. As the new energy vehicle industry enters the second half, Shenzhen also focuses on the layout of intelligent networked vehicles, hoping to form a number of "can play" corporate strategic echelon.
But Shenzhen's vision doesn't stop there. In August 2023, Shenzhen officially announced that it would accelerate the construction"A new generation of world-class motor city", significantly improving the "depth content" of global automobiles.
After 70 years in China, Shenzhen has never been an important development town. But now when it comes to automobiles, Shenzhen has become a name that is hard to avoid. Some people say that Shenzhen's *** is just like this city, it is a miracle of unconventional growth, and as soon as it enters the competition, it will cut into the hottest new energy and intelligent network league at the moment.
With the innovation genes that go deep into the bone marrow, the industry leaders who are leading the way, and the inertia of the city that is at the forefront of the times, how China's auto industry will go next may be answered by Shenzhen.
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The "trillion club" that has been suspended for a year may usher in two new members at one time - Changzhou and Yantai. Changzhou's "breakout" was foreseen as early as the city list at the end of 2022. This time, we hope to focus on Yantai.
As an old industrial city, Yantai once relied on the four pillar industries of machinery, electronics, food and the first to become the second largest city in Shandong Province in terms of economic volume. However, due to the relatively high proportion of traditional industries, Yantai was also once in a growth dilemma. In 2018, Yantai was clearly positioned as one of the three core areas of Shandong's new and old kinetic energy conversion comprehensive pilot zone, and after a series of pains of "vacating cages for birds", it gradually recovered and finally dawned.
In the local view, Yantai's trillions of dollars rely on "all-round development, not biased". "The development of a region that depends on one or two specific industries can be cyclical or fragile," local experts noted. Yantai's own location conditions and resource endowment may be temporarily deposited in a specific period, but these advantages have not been lost. ”
If Yantai is successfully promoted, Shandong will become the only province in the northern region with three trillion cities, and also become the third province in the country with three or more trillion cities. From a geographical point of view, Yantai has the objective conditions to become another central city on the Jiaodong Peninsula. Trillion yuan will start again, and Yantai will take on the important task of the "third core" in the province.
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The Northeast Revitalization Strategy has been implemented for 20 years. For a long time in the past, the economic performance of the old industrial base in Northeast China was poor, and the implementation of the Northeast revitalization strategy was not as effective as expected. In the eyes of the outside world, to promote the revitalization of the Northeast to achieve new breakthroughs, a central city is needed as a "focus point" to leverage the comprehensive revitalization of the Northeast.
Who can take on the heavy lift?Among the four sub-provincial cities in Northeast China, Shenyang may be the one with the highest demand.
In terms of economic scale and population, Shenyang has both comprehensive strength and is the closest city to "double thousand" in Northeast ChinaIn terms of urban location, Shenyang has the advantage of geographical advantages, and it is the core of the Northeast Economic Central Axis (Harbin-Changchun-Shenyang-Dalian).
Shenyang's attitude is also quite positive. In 2021, Shenyang included "striving to build a national central city" into the overall goal of the 14th Five-Year Plan, which is rare among cities in the countryThe following year, the "Shenyang Action Plan for Building a National Central City" was released, making it clear that by 2025, the total economic output should exceed one trillion yuan, and the population scale should exceed 10 million.
Shenyang is also becoming more and more visible. At the beginning of 2023, the mayor of Shenyang revealed on CCTV that the Shenyang metropolitan area was approved, achieving a "zero breakthrough" in the northeast national metropolitan area. In the first three quarters of 2023, Shenyang's GDP reached 5,821600 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 60%, outperforming the national average for six consecutive quarters.
Not long ago, when Shenyang deployed this year's economic work, it listed "making every effort to make breakthroughs in improving the level of urban development" as its top priority. Those who are tenacious will do it, and it will be over.
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2023 is China's "big year of sports events", with the Chengdu Universiade and Hangzhou Asian Games being held one after another, and the two cities, one in the east and one in the west, have become the symbols and home venues of China inviting guests from all over the world and opening its doors to the world.
There are also more and more cities entering the "event time": Shanghai to build a "world-famous sports city", Shenzhen to create an "international famous sports city", Harbin to create an "international sports event capital", ......A new race has begun in the city.
Seek the race and seek the city. As the first city in the western region to host a comprehensive international sports event, Chengdu has been committed to building a world-class event city since 2018. The city has long realized that hosting large-scale events is not only a proof of the city's comprehensive strength, but also an opportunity to improve the city's energy level and promote economic development.
In 2022, the total output value of Chengdu's sports industry will exceed 100 billion. In the post-Universiade era, Chengdu will also make every effort to prepare for large-scale international events such as the 2024 Tang You Cup and the 2025 World Games, giving full play to the legacy effect of the Universiade and attracting the attention of the world. By 2025, the total scale of the sports industry is expected to reach 150 billion yuan, and the added value of the sports industry will account for more than 2% of the regional GDP.
From "competition" to "economy", when young people pay attention to and identify with the city, it also means that the city is expected to win the future. This is the best interpretation of the competition camp city and the competition industry, which is not only to prosper the sports industry, but also to promote the development of the city's industry in an all-round way.
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In the past year, the new megacity of Hefei was very busy. The "Hefei model" has been out of the circle for three years, not only has not turned off the fire, but has attracted more places to come to study and investigate.
According to incomplete statistics, there are provincial-level high-level delegations alone, including Jiangxi, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Liaoning, Shanxi, Jilin and other provincesThere are more prefecture-level cities, including trillion-dollar cities and provincial capitals such as Nanjing, Changsha, Wuxi and Taiyuan, as well as ordinary prefecture-level cities such as Jiaozuo, Fuyang, Anqing, Zhoukou, Quzhou, Zibo, Lu'an, Huzhou, Sanya, Zhuzhou and Baotou. The inspection groups at the district, county, department, and enterprise levels are even more innumerable.
iFLYTEK, Guodun Quantum, BOE, NIO, and Zhong'an Chuanggu are the most frequent "check-in places" for the delegation. The purpose of the investigation is almost all around the transformation of scientific and technological achievements and the development of high-tech industries. Of course, attracting investment and operating production and investment are also experiences that many localities hope to learn from.
From the once little-known Jianghuai Xiaoyi to the hot "innovation capital" and "venture capital city", the story of Hefei's counterattack has been told too much. And while many cities are still trying to crack the code of the "Hefei model", the city has quietly upgraded 2Version 0, the "Venture Capital City Plan" was opened: from the previous "project first" and "moving big trees" to "investing early, investing small, and investing in technology".
If it is said that it is long-termism, professionalism and adventurous spirit that have made Hefei what it is today;In the future, Hefei will continue to benefit from this.
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Almost every provincial capital city has a dream of a "m" shaped hub. On December 8, 2023, the Jizheng high-speed railway will be put into operation. As a passage for Shandong to open up the westward and deep into the hinterland of the Central Plains, the key section of Jinan's "m" shaped high-speed rail network is a key section from the middle to the west, and the Jinan-Zhengzhou high-speed railway was once regarded as "the most important high-speed railway under construction and planning".
With the completion and opening of the Jinan-Qingdao high-speed railway, Shiji-Ji-Ji passenger dedicated, Jilai high-speed railway, and Ji-Zheng high-speed railway, the construction of Jibin high-speed railway, and the Jiji high-speed railway is about to land, and Jinan's "m" shaped hub is about to emerge. As the only "m" shaped high-speed rail hub in Shandong Province, Jinan will become an important node for Shandong to connect directly to the Central Plains, Northwest and Southwest regions.
Shandong's determination to strengthen the provincial capital is obvious. In the "Outline of Shandong Province's Comprehensive Three-dimensional Transportation Network Plan (2023-2035)" issued in November last year, on the basis of accelerating the construction of Qingdao as an international comprehensive transportation hub city, it emphasizes "efforts to cultivate Jinan as an international comprehensive transportation hub city".
You must know that in the "National Comprehensive Three-dimensional Transportation Network Planning Outline", 20 cities are included in the international comprehensive transportation hub, and only Qingdao in Shandong is listed. Now the province has strongly supported Jinan's upper position, which will further strengthen Jinan's hub advantage, and the distribution capacity of factors will reach the whole province through high-speed rail.
The status of the transportation hub has been gradually established, and the more critical point to play the function of the provincial capital city lies in how to further expand the economic volume and industrial energy level, and enhance the radiation and driving role of the surrounding cities.
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In 2021, with the soaring coal prices and energy and power shortages spreading to many places across the country, the two major energy cities of Ordos and Yulin, which undertake the task of "ensuring supply", will increase significantly. People are waiting to see who can seize the opportunity of the new cycle, take the lead in completing the transformation and upgrading of the industrial structure, and completely get rid of the fate of the city dominated by "primary energy".
Time is giving the answer, in 2023, the center of gravity of coal will move down significantly, and the "two brothers" who "ran blindfolded" in the coal ** era quietly walked on the "fork in the road". In recent years, Ordos has made efforts to get out of the "comfort zone" of resource endowment, put forward the development direction of driving the transformation of industrial structure and economic structure with energy structure transformation, and made every effort to build five industrial clusters of "wind, solar, hydrogen storage vehicles", and opened up a new path for the green and low-carbon transformation of resource-based cities.
Its goal is that by the end of the "14th Five-Year Plan", the installed capacity of new energy in Ordos will exceed 50 million kilowatts, and the total output value of the "wind, solar and hydrogen storage vehicle" industry will exceed 500 billion yuan. This goal is basically equivalent to building another Ordos on the basis of the current economic aggregate of Ordos.
In 2022, Ordos' GDP will exceed the 500 billion yuan mark for the first time, reaching 561.3 billion yuan, ranking 49th in the country. In 2023, Ordos has formulated a plan to cross another 100 billion steps and exceed 600 billion yuan, and on this basis, strive to break through one trillion yuan and enter the trillion city club in five years.
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If you ask which provincial capitals have a low degree of primacy, Shijiazhuang must be on the list. Someone on Zhihu asked: What is the cold knowledge about Shijiazhuang?Someone replied: Shijiazhuang is the capital of Hebei Province.
In July 2023, Shijiazhuang officially announced the holding of "Rock Home Town" - China's "Rock City"** performance season, comprehensively building China's "Rock City". Three months, more than 130 well-known rock bands, and more than 100 rock and roll performances for the benefit of the people are the first steps taken by this city that has decided to regain the label of "rock".
If the momentum and action of the "Rock City" is the "first half" of Shijiazhuang's hope for a gorgeous transformation, then the "second half" is to use rock and roll as the "lead" and finally find the "youth". Since 2023, Shijiazhuang has not only compiled the "Youth-Friendly City Development Plan" and formulated the implementation plan of the plan, but also took the lead in promulgating the "Guidelines for Youth-Friendly City Planning" in the country.
As the first provincial capital in North China and a city with a population of 10 million, Shijiazhuang's permanent population will grow negatively for the first time in many years in 2021. Although Shijiazhuang "turned negative into positive" after one year, the permanent population of Hebei Province has been negative for two consecutive years.
The attractiveness of a strong provincial capital to people is self-evident. In the context of the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Beijing's spillover of industries and talents can bring new development opportunities to Shijiazhuang, according to Shijiazhuang's plan, by 2035, it will become the central city of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei world-class urban agglomeration, a place of pride for locals and a place of charm for outsiders.
On November 28, 2023, the main line of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Corridor officially opened to **Xinhua News Agency.
The deep integration of Shenzhen and China will be like the relationship between Pudong and Puxi in Shanghai in the future. "In June 2023, on the occasion of the first anniversary of the countdown to the opening of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Corridor, Shenzhen and Zhongshan jointly attracted investment from all over the world for the first time.
It was also at this investment conference that the Shenzhen-China Economic Cooperation Zone, with a total planning area of 66 square kilometers, was officially unveiled, becoming the first cooperation zone in the Pearl River Delta across the Pearl River Estuary. According to the local interpretation, this is a "historic leap" in the integrated and interactive development of the east and west banks of the Pearl River Estuary.
"The east is strong and the west is weak" has always been a problem that needs to be solved urgently in the Pearl River Delta. In 2022, the "** Inner Bay" around the Pearl River Estuary was born, and Guangdong proposed to promote the pilot project of integrated high-quality development of the Pearl River Estuary in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, "driving the coordinated development and take-off of the three major metropolitan areas of Guangzhou, Shenzhen and the west bank of the Pearl River Estuary".
The "hand-in-hand" between Shenzhen and China is the first time to answer. From a practical point of view, both cities have the need for cooperation: Shenzhen, as the largest industrial city in the country, has been facing a serious land use problem;However, Zhongshan is constrained by the traditional and low-end industry, and the city's ranking has repeatedly fallen, and it is in urgent need of transformation.
Economist Lu Ming once compared the central city and the peripheral small and medium-sized cities to the sun and the planets. The radiation of the "sun" to the "planet" depends on the physical connection of rail transit and other physical levels and the coordination and docking of institutional mechanisms. Zhongshan, which has been lost for a long time, is looking forward to ushering in its own "second spring".
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