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CDI China's financial center index (CDI CFCI) is a multi-factor comprehensive evaluation system to measure the competitiveness of China's financial centers. It aims to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of the development of China's financial centers through a series of objective indicators, thus laying a foundation for further proposing effective measures to enhance the competitiveness of financial centers.

In CDI CFCI 10, we comprehensively evaluated the competitiveness of 31 financial centers in China by adopting 91 objective indicators based on four grades of competitiveness evaluation, including the evaluations of comprehensive financial industry performance, financial institution strength, competitiveness, financial market scale and financial ecological environment. Since it was first launched in 2009, CDI CFCI has been updated annually.

Compared with the previous index, the indicator system of CDI CFCI10 has been improved with optimization and adjustments, including adding the indicators such as private equity fund management and regional equity market, and deleting those indicators such as factor trading market and others which are difficult to be calculated accurately. Therefore the total number of overall indicators has been increased by three in order that the CDI CFCI evaluation system reflects the competitiveness of China's financial center more scientifically and comprehensively.

In addition, the cities selected in CDI CFCI cover all important financial centers in China. By analyzing the important financial reform and innovation measures taken by each financial center in the previous year, the index report provides a new "window" for in-depth observation of China's financial reform and development of innovation