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Chengdu is one of the most economically vibrant cities in China and globally, with a booming economy, strong consumption and a large population of 16 million. Chengdu is not only a kaleidoscope of the world, a livable city with rich local culture, and also an international city with abundant human resources and tremendous opportunities for career development.
Honors
- 2009
China’s benchmark city for domestic investments
The World Bank
- 2010
The world's fastest-growing city in the next decade
Forbes
World food capital
UNESCO
- 2011
Global best emerging commercial city
Fortune
- 2012
The world’s most competitive cities
Economist
- 2014
Ranked 3rd in the Top 10 best performing cities in Asia
The Milken Institute (an independent American economic think tank)
China's most livable city
The Asian Development Bank
- 2015 / 2017
Ranked 1st in the Top 10 Best Performing Cities in China
The Milken Institute
- 2016
The most dynamic Chinese city along the “One Belt, One Road”
Global Times
- 2017 / 2018
Ranked 1st among China's new first-tier cities in terms of commercial attractiveness
CBN Research Institute of New First-tier Cities
- 2018
Ranked first in China in the ranking of urban governance
White Paper on China's Urban Digital Economy Index
- 2018
Ranked as Beta+ level in The World According to GaWC
The Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) (A leading academic think tank based at Loughborough University that studies cities in globalization)
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The 4th largest civil aviation hub in China
335 destinations
203 domestic routes
114 international / regional routes (as of Dec.2018)
In 2018, the passenger throughput of Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport reached 52.95 million, ranking 1st in the central and western cities.
The 3rd city in China to build two airports
China’s 4th city with a 72-hour visa-free visa, after Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.
Asia's largest international railway port
In-depth implementation of the "Chengdu-Europe +" strategy
The Chengdu-European Express Rail, which was opened in 2013, is the most time-efficient, most stable and most competitive railway freight train in China. The central line runs from Chengdu to Lodz, Poland, Nuremberg, Germany, and Tilburg, the Netherlands. It can be delivered to the hinterland of Europe. The southern line runs to Central Asia and Turkey, and the northern line runs to Russia to form a “three-line parallel” pattern.
Open the "Southward Open Grand Passage"
Starting from Chengdu, departure from Yunnan or Guangxi, a multimodal transport corridor will eventually reach the ASEAN countries, and have an effect on South Asia and the Middle East and promote a closer cooperation between Chengdu and other regions of the west and the south.
