China has the largest economic aggregate.

This China's most beloved city in the 2nd/Kloc-0th century has amazing economic vitality. Shanghai is known as the leader of China's economic take-off again, or it is imminent. It is hoped that it can lead the economic ships in the whole Yangtze River basin.

Shanghai has the best local government in China, the most convenient location and transportation advantages, and a group of white-collar workers with the highest quality in China. Shanghai is the perfect birthplace of managers. A standard Shanghai-made manager should have graduated from the University of California, Berkeley or Harvard University, stayed in the US headquarters of multinational companies, worked in consulting companies such as McKinsey, and then returned to China as a general manager or a first-generation multinational company in China.

Although Shanghai's talent training ability and talent absorption ability are slightly lower than Beijing's, its advantages in the overall business and human environment make it unique in competing for outstanding talents. The value creation ability of talents and their contribution to urban economy are also obvious. Shanghai has become a new choice for multinational corporations to set up headquarters in China and the Asia-Pacific region, and it is the most internationalized city in Chinese mainland. Zhangjiang High-tech Park on the east bank of Pujiang has become the most knowledge-intensive high-tech gathering place in China, and its rising speed is equally amazing.

Total population: 134 1.8 million.

Number of colleges and universities: 57

Number of scientific research talents: 35,000

Scientific research achievements: scientific and technological achievements 1508 were obtained throughout the year.

Number of high-tech enterprises: 19 16.

Technology trading: 27,300 technology trading contracts were signed throughout the year; The contract amount is 654.38+04.278 billion yuan.

Patents: 22,374 patent applications were accepted throughout the year.

Gross domestic product: 61600 million yuan.

GDP growth rate: 1 1.8%

Famous universities include Fudan University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai University, Tongji University and East China University of Science and Technology.

Expenditure on scientific and technological activities: 654.38+02.3 billion.

2. Beijing

Beijing is the traditional residence of senior intellectuals in China. In this city, there are the densest university clusters and research institutes in China. There is only one Peking University and one Tsinghua, which proves the city's extraordinary talent training ability and tradition. In the eyes of mainlanders, Beijing represents the broad mind and tolerance that a city can have. Although Beijing's household registration system reform lags behind Shanghai and Guangzhou, it does not prevent 3.076 million mainlanders from choosing to live and start businesses here in 2003.

All bustling big cities have some characteristics that are not suitable for living, such as congestion, noise, pollution and inconvenient transportation; Beijing is particularly dissatisfied with these aspects. However, in the past 20 years, multinational companies that attach importance to government relations and business environment still insist on setting their headquarters in China. Therefore, Beijing's talent competitiveness is still characterized by the fear of other cities.

Total population: 14564000.

Colleges and universities: 73

Number of scientific research talents: 274,000

Technology transaction: 32 173 technology contracts were registered, with a total turnover of 26.54 billion yuan and a technology transaction volume of 22.66 billion yuan.

Patents: The number of patent applications accepted in the whole year was 17003.

Gross domestic product: 3611.90 billion yuan.

GDP growth rate: 10.5%

Famous universities are: Tsinghua University, Peking University, China Renmin University, etc.

Expenditure on scientific and technological activities: 45.75 billion yuan

3. Guangzhou

To some extent, Guangzhou's prosperity benefits from its special location adjacent to Hong Kong. While attracting Hong Kong capital and making up for the three, a large amount of capital flows rapidly in Guangzhou and its surrounding areas. In recent years, the active private economy in the Pearl River Delta region has made Guangzhou the first region to benefit from reform and opening up. However, the development of commerce and trade and the prosperity of low-level manufacturing failed to support the further development of Guangzhou, which is obviously inferior to Shanghai and Beijing, or even Shenzhen, in the ability to compete for senior talents.

Total population: 9.943 million

Number of universities: 44

Number of scientific research talents: 1790.

Number of high-tech enterprises: 270

Technology transaction: Guangzhou identified 4,324 technology contracts with a contract amount of 365,438+64.4 million yuan.

Gross domestic product: 3,466.63 billion yuan.

GDP growth rate: 15%

Well-known universities include Sun Yat-sen University, South China University of Technology and Jinan University.

Expenditure on scientific and technological activities: 654.38+0.4 billion yuan.

4. Shenzhen

Shenzhen was once known as a modern city with the most development potential in China, and it was built according to the modern urban model from the very beginning. A small border card, with its status as a "special zone", impressed all people who entered and left the city. This immigrant city has gathered outstanding talents from all over the country in a short time, and its flexible policies and high urban management level make it the first choice for new enterprises to start businesses.

However, today, Shenzhen is facing the positioning confusion of not finding a new round of growth cycle. The first-Mover advantage of the city's overall business environment has been surpassed, the status of the financial city has been threatened by Shanghai, and the talent competitiveness of Shenzhen has been greatly weakened.

Total population: 5574 1 ten thousand.

Number of universities: 42 (including universities in Shenzhen)

Number of scientific research talents: In the whole year, * * * introduced more than 30,000 registered talents and 1200 overseas students.

Number of high-tech enterprises: 673

Patents: patent applications 1236 1 piece are accepted throughout the year.

Gross domestic product: 2860.5 1 100 million yuan.

GDP growth rate: 17.3%

Famous universities include: Shenzhen University, etc.

Expenditure on scientific and technological activities: 3180,000 yuan.

5. Suzhou

Suzhou, a leisurely and beautiful garden city, has become a new gathering place for China's high-tech manufacturing industry because of the Suzhou Industrial Park jointly built by China and Singapore. The success of Suzhou Industrial Park is regarded as the most successful example of China Development Zone. There are the best quality industrial workers in China, who have become the most dazzling city stars in southern Jiangsu.

Total population: 5,909,700.

Number of universities: 17.

Scientific research achievements: the city organized and implemented 437 scientific and technological projects, and 147 scientific and technological achievements won the scientific and technological progress award at or above the municipal level.

Number of high-tech enterprises: 555

Output value of high-tech products: 654.38+86 million yuan.

Gross domestic product: 280.2 billion yuan.

GDP growth rate: 18.0%

Famous universities include: Suzhou University, etc.