Most of China’s cities have improved their level of sustainability in recent years, primarily in the social and environment sub-categories.
The top 10 cities with best overall sustainability performance are located mostly in the coastal or eastern regions.
In the long term, the sustainability of China’s cities is positively correlated to economic strength, population size, and density, FDI, and migration. However, our sample cities show there are clear turning points at which a
city’s sustainability potentially slows down, or stalls
The gap with global benchmark cities is closing slowly
Bigger improvements in sustainability are possible for cities at earlier stages of economic development.
Cities can determine their own future; their fate is not determined by GDP, population size or density. Cities can, at any time in their development, make improvements by leveraging inherent strengths, comparative natural
advantage or policy instruments.
When a city’s economy reaches a certain level of maturity, imbalance emerges between the economy and the social and environmental aspects.
During the transformation from small cities to large ones, small cities should better integrate with cluster cities.
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