Four-tier city.
Four-tier cities (Four-tier City) are mostly medium-sized cities with relatively ordinary city size, level of economic and social development, and transportation construction. Most of the fourth-tier cities are predominantly prefecture-level cities, and also include autonomous regions in individual provinces.
The economic and social development of Four-tier Cities tends to rely on local small and medium-sized enterprises or resource-based enterprises, and the consumption level of the residents is in the process of growth. In the regional strategic layout of large companies and brands, Four-tier Cities tend to rely on the radiation of the regional center city, but Four-tier Cities have a certain degree of attraction to the local Chinese medium-sized enterprises and the second-tier brands.
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On May 25, 2017, CBN-New Tier 1 Cities Institute held the "New Tier 1 Cities Summit and 2017 China's Urban Commercial Charm Ranking Release Ceremony", and released the latest edition of the urban commercial charm list. The latest 2017 City Business Attractiveness Ranking evaluates the business attractiveness of Chinese cities according to five dimensions: concentration of business resources, urban hubs, activeness of urbanites, diversity of lifestyles, and plasticity of the future.
The latest City Business Attractiveness Ranking follows the previous year's five dimensions of business resource concentration, urban hub, urban people activity, lifestyle diversity and future plasticity, but with some adjustments to the analyzing algorithm: the expert committee of New Tier 1 Cities Institute was invited to assign values to the weights of the five dimensions, which were then counted into the scoring system in the way of the experts' scoring method, and a principal component analysis was used to analyze data below the second level of the index. The data were analyzed using principal component analysis to objectively assign weights.
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Shanwei City is located in the southeast of Guangdong Province, the southern foot of Mount Lotus, east of Huilai County, west of Huidong County, north of Meizhou City and Zijin County, south of the South China Sea, the waters under the jurisdiction of 93 islands, 12 ports and 3 sea lakes, Shanwei Port is a natural deep-water harbour, the country's coastal opening the first category of ports. The terrain of the area is mainly mountainous and hilly inland, and plains and hills along the coast. The Hailufeng Revolutionary Base Area is one of the 13 revolutionary bases in China. Shanwei ranked first in the province's Comprehensive Ambient Air Quality Index for cities at all levels in 2016.
Shanwei City has jurisdiction over Lufeng City, Haifeng County, Luhe County, and the urban area, as well as two Shanwei municipal party committee and municipal government dispatches (Guangdong Shanwei Honghaiwan Economic Development Zone and Shanwei Overseas Chinese Management Zone) and one Guangdong provincial government dispatch, the Shenzhen-Shantou Special Cooperation Zone . The population is mainly Han Chinese, with 23 other ethnic groups, including the boat-dwelling and She ethnic groups. Overseas Chinese of Shanwei origin mainly reside in Hong Kong, Malaysia and Indonesia.
Location
Shanwei is located on the southeastern coast of Guangdong Province, between latitude 20°27′~23°28′ north and longitude 114°54′~116°13′ east. It borders Huilai County of Jieyang City to the east, Huidong County of Huizhou City to the west, Zijin County of Heyuan City to the north, and the South China Sea to the south, with Hong Kong across the sea. The land boundary is 90km at the widest point in the north and south, and 132km at the widest point in the east and west, with a total area of 5,271km2, (excluding 1.8km2 of the Dongsha Islands) accounting for 2.93% of the total area of the province.
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