On May 19th, "China Urban Competitiveness Report" was released. Jingzhou ranked 171st on city comprehensive economic competitiveness in the national 293 ranking and ranked 7th in Hubei Province. There is a gap between Jinzhou and Xiangyang,Yichang and other brother cities, which reflects that Jingzhou should develop business more quickly and pay more attention to the ecological environment.

China Urban Competitiveness Report, sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, has been released once a year since 2003. The order is made according to the comprehensive competitiveness of more than 200 above prefecture-level cities. The report was jointly released by the Finance Strategy Institute of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and Social Sciences Academic Press. The report shows, according to the comprehensive economic competitiveness ranking, among cities in Hubei Province, Wuhan ranked 13th, Xiangyang 100th, Yichang 101st, Xiaogan 153rd, Huangshi 154th, Huanggang 159th, Jingzhou 171st, Jingmen 185th , Ezhou 186th, Xianning 222nd, Suizhou 246th respectively.

The report also ranked cities from perspectives of several aspects, such as sustainability index, livable index, business index, harmony index, eco-index, knowledge index, culture index and so on. Jingzhou ranked 165th, 232nd, 211th, 180th, 104th, 112th, 183rdaccording to the above indexes respectively.

With comprehensive economic competitiveness having risen rapidly, the city\'s sustainable competitiveness will upsoar initially, but up to a certain stage, the rising will slow down, or even be down, said Ni Pengfei, Drector of Research Center of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Institute of City Competitiveness. Therefore, the key to improving the competitiveness of Chinese cities lies not in the size of reality of comprehensive economic competitiveness, but rather how to improve sustainable competitiveness and enhance the potential development of Chinese cities, which are the inherent requirements inexhaustible dynamic for the transformation of China\'s economic and social development model in the future.

The ultimate goal of urban competitiveness is for the public benefit. Therefore, people-oriented livable urban construction should and must also be an important part of an ideal city and a concrete manifestation of the public welfare, said Li Guangquan, a Contract Researcher of the Research Center of China\'s Tertiary Industry. Chinese cities pay more attention to "hardware" rather than "software" ("hardware" means economic development, while"software" means cultural development) and appearance constructions rather than inherent development, said Li Chao, Assistant Researcher of the Institute of Finance Strategic Research of CASS. Over the past decade, outbreak of many urban diseases appeared in the large and medium-sized cities, such as traffic congestion, housing shortage, epidemics and food safety and so on.