Since December 2013, China has promoted the World Cities Day as the first International Day with a theme of cities. It aims to increase international community's attention on global urbanization, to facilitate sustainable development, to enhance related international cooperation, and to construct green, livable, convenient, harmonious cities.
As one of the major activities of the World Cities Day, the World City Competitiveness Forum debuted on the 30th October, and the Global Urban Competitiveness Report 2017-2018 was released. The report was accomplished by Chinese Academy of Social Sciences(CASS), UN-Habitat and many global urban competitiveness experts. With the index systems of urban economic competitiveness and sustainable competitiveness, over 1,000 cities have been measured and ranked. In China, 9 cities enter the list of top 100 sustainable competitive cities while 21 cities enter the list of top 100 economic competitive cities.
Professor Ni Pengfei, Director of Center for City and Competitiveness, CASS, chief city economist of CASS- UN-HABITAT joint project group, claimed that cities in China, represented by Guangzhou have ranked remarkably. As the pioneer of China's reform and opening-up, the national central city and one of the most livable cities, "Flower City", Guangzhou has first entered the list of top 20 economic competitive cities, ranked the 15th.
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