What tier city is Yantai in 2017? Is Yantai a first or second tier city?

Yantai is still a second-tier city

The four first-tier cities are: Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen; the 15 "new first-tier" cities are: Chengdu, Hangzhou, Wuhan, Nanjing, Chongqing, Tianjin, Suzhou, Xi'an, Changsha, Shenyang, Qingdao, Zhengzhou, Dalian, Dongguan, Ningbo.

The 2017 China City Business Charm Ranking was launched in March. After nearly two months of evaluation, the list was released yesterday. It is understood that this ranking is based on the commercial database of 160 mainstream consumer brands and the user behavior of Internet platforms and institutions including Alibaba, Didi Chuxing, JD.com, Meituan Dianping, Qunar, Zhaopin, Alipay, etc. The data, combined with the city's basic database, was calculated based on weighted calculations based on the five dimensions of business resource aggregation, urban hubs, urban people's activity, lifestyle diversity and future plasticity, to re-evaluate the commercial charm of China's 338 cities at or above the prefecture level. In the end, 4 first-tier cities, 15 "new first-tier" cities, 30 second-tier cities, 70 third-tier cities, 90 fourth-tier cities and 129 fifth-tier cities were selected.