CONTENTS
Ⅰ General Reports
1 Annual Ranking of Urban Competitiveness among
Chinese cities in 2012 ............................................/001
2 Reviews of Urban Competitiveness of Chinese Cities in 2012:
Constructing the Ideal City with Sustainable Competitiveness
............................................... Ni Pengfei, Li Chao/024
Ⅱ Theoretical Framework
3 Urban Competitiveness: Literature Review .............. Yang Xiaolan/052
4 Urban Competitiveness: Theory and Model ....... Ni Pengfei, Yang Jie/076
5 Urban Competitiveness: Urban Sustainable Competitiveness
.............................................. Ni Pengfei, Yang Jie/092
Ⅲ Topical Reports
6 Report on Lirable city Competitiveness: Toward People-oriented
Livable City ......................................... Li Guangquan/110
7 Report on Urban Business Competitiveness: Towards Entrepreneurship-
Towards and Business-friendly City ..................... Li Qingbin/129
8 Report on Urban Social Cohesion Competitiveness: Towards
Fair, Inclusive and Harmonious City .................... Liu Jinwei/148
9 Report on Urban Ecological Competitiveness:
Environment-friendly Eco-city ......................... Wei Shaokun/171
10 Report on Urban Literacy and Education Competitiveness:
Innovation-driven Knowledge-based City ............... Zhao Yingwei/191
11 Report on Urban Space Cohesion Competitiveness:
Urban-Rural Integrated City ............................ Cai Shukai/210
12 Report on Urban Information Competitiveness: communication
and Information friendly City .............................. Liu Yi/228
13 Report on Urban Cultural Competitiveness: Culturally Open and
Diversified City ...................... Xu Feng, Qi Rui and Li Jing/252
Ⅳ Regional Reports
14 Urban Competitiveness Report on Southeast China ........ Zou Linhua/271
15 Urban Competitiveness Report on Bohai Rim of China
............................................... Liu Wei, Bu Pengfei/297
16 Urban Competitiveness Report on Northeast China ........ Bu Pengfei/317
17 Urban Competitiveness Report on Central China ......... Huang Cheng/336
18 Urban Competitiveness Report on Southwest China ........... Lu Biao/363
19 Urban Competitiveness Report on Northwest China ........... Wei Jie/392
20 Urban Competitiveness Report on Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan
Regions of China
................ Shen jianfa, Liu Chengkun, Lu Biao and Qiao Jingyu/419
21 Appendix ........................................................../437
22 Postscript ......................................................../440
In last decade, Chinese cities' progress of growth mode transformation is not obvious. Meanwhile,there are some emerging problems like soaring housing prices, worsening city environment and increasing social problems, highlighting urban diseases. It is an urgent issue for Chinese cities to seek the sustainable development mechanism and the new path of urbanization. This annual report has the theme of "A New Benchmark: Constructing the Ideal city with Sustainable Competitiveness". It is a quest to explore the future development directions for cities in China.