3 Anhui cities among China's top 100

Warton Economic Institute officially revealed a list of top 100 Chinese cities in 2021 on May 21.

Three cities in Anhui are among the top 100. Hefei ranks 19th, Wuhu is at 60th and Chuzhou is at the position of 81th.

Warton Economic Institute has made the of list of top 100 Chinese cities for seven consecutive years since 2015.

Candidates are cities at the prefecture level or above whose gross domestic product (GDP) rank among the top 110 in China. They get their position by comprehensive points which contain hard economic indicators whose weight is 0.618 and soft economic indicators whose weight is 0.382.

Hard economic indicators are composed of GDP, household savings and government revenue, while soft economic indicators analyze environment, science and education, culture, and health. The scores of each single index are synthesized by its total score (weight 0.5) and per capita score (weight 0.5).

(By Yang Zixuan)