Industrial structure, among the seven cities, Chongqing has a relatively large share of agriculture, Xiamen's share of agriculture is almost negligible, and the share of the primary industry in 2021 is 6.9% and 0.4% respectively. Xiamen, Chongqing, and Changsha have a high proportion of industry, with 41%, 40.1%, and 39.6% of the secondary industry in 2021. Hangzhou and Chengdu have a small share of industry and a relatively more robust service sector, with the former at 30.3% and 30.7%, and the latter at 67.9% and 66.4%, respectively. In comparison, Chongqing is the Netroots city with the smallest share of services among the seven cities, with a tertiary industry share of 53 percent.
All seven cities have their own benchmark industries. Combing the TOP 5 industries in terms of total business revenue of regulated industries in 2020, Hangzhou, Chengdu, Chongqing, Xiamen and Xi'an are more prominent in the manufacturing of computers, communications and other electronic equipment, and all of them have representative Internet companies on the ground. For example, Xiamen has enterprises such as Meitu, Meitu, 4399, Gigabit, and MPC. In addition, Changsha, Chengdu, Chongqing, Xi'an and Qingdao have prominent automobile manufacturing industries. For example, Chengdu has factories of FAW-Volkswagen, Volvo, and Sichuan FAW-Toyota; Xi'an has car companies such as Shaanxi Automobile, BYD, and Geely; and Qingdao is home to FAW-Jiefang, SAIC-GM-Wuling, and FAW-Volkswagen. Changsha's special equipment manufacturing and tobacco manufacturing stand out, with Zoomlion Heavy Industry, Sany Heavy Industry, and Hunan China Tobacco as leading companies. The seven Netroots cities are all mega-cities with a resident population of more than 10 million people, except Xiamen. in 2021, Xiamen had a resident population of 5.28 million people. Chongqing, a municipality directly under the central government, is also the most populous of the seven cities, with a resident population of 32.12 million in 2021. Chengdu is second only to Chongqing, with a resident population of 21.19 million in 2021. In the same year, Xi'an, Hangzhou, Qingdao and Changsha will have resident populations of 13.16 million, 12.2 million, 10.26 million and 10.24 million, respectively.
In 2020, the new permanent population of the seven cities saw an exponential or even more than tenfold increase due to the new Crown pneumonia epidemic. Among them, the new resident populations of Chengdu, Xi'an, Changsha and Hangzhou reached 4,357,000, 2,749,000, 1,653,000 and 1,576,000 in 2020, while they were still only 2,511,000, 200,000, 240,000 and 554,000 in 2019, respectively. However, by 2021, the number of new permanent residents in the seven Netroots cities returned to the normalized level of 2019, mostly remaining in the growth range of 100,000 to 270,000 people. Chongqing is the city with the highest number of beds in healthcare facilities, reaching 240,700 in 2021, which includes beds in hospitals, community health centers, township health centers, and other healthcare facilities. They are followed by Chengdu, Hangzhou, Changsha, Xi'an, Qingdao, and Xiamen, with 160,000, 91,000, 87,200, 79,500, 67,900, and 20,253 beds respectively in 2021.
But in terms of basic medical service coverage, individuals are better able to enjoy convenient hospitalization services in Changsha, where the number of beds per 1,000 people in Changsha will be 8.5 beds per 1,000 people in 2021. This is followed by Chengdu, Hangzhou, Chongqing, Qingdao, Xi'an and Xiamen, with the number of beds in medical institutions per 1,000 people in 2021 at 7.6 per 1,000, 7.5 per 1,000, 7.5 per 1,000, 6.6 per 1,000, 6 per 1,000, and 3.8 per 1,000, respectively.
Look again at the leisure and entertainment choices. From the regional distribution of shopping and consumption, Chongqing ranks first in the number of iconic commercial districts, with 11 in 2022, and Jiefangbei Pedestrian Street is the representative area. Xi'an, Chengdu, Hangzhou, Changsha, Qingdao, and Xiamen come next, with 8, 6, 5, 3, 3, and 2 respectively in 2022, represented by Datang Nocturnal City, Chunxi Road, Wulin Road, Huangxing Road, Zhongshan Road, and Zhongshan Road (yes, Qingdao and Xiamen have the same name for their popular neighborhoods).
In terms of green space (municipal districts), Chongqing is also the city with the most green space, reaching 707 square kilometers in 2020. It is followed by Hangzhou, Chengdu, Qingdao, Xi'an, Xiamen and Changsha, with 496 square kilometers, 485 square kilometers, 418 square kilometers, 354 square kilometers, 237 square kilometers and 206 square kilometers in 2020, respectively.
Qingdao, abbreviated as Qingdao, was formerly known as "Jiao'ao", also known as "Qindao" and "Island City", and is also known as the "Switzerland of the East. ". It is a planned city, a sub-provincial city, the economic center of Shandong Province, an important central city along the coast of the country and a coastal resort and tourist city, an international port city and a famous national historical and cultural city, as determined by the State Council.
Qingdao is located in the southeastern coast of Shandong Peninsula, east of Jiaodong Peninsula, east and south of the Yellow Sea, across the sea and the Korean Peninsula, due to the "one port and one road" and the rise of the international seaport and regional hub airports
Qingdao is more suitable for living.