China's Financial Center Index (CFCI) has established a system for competitiveness evaluation adapted to the development characteristics of Chinese financial centers. The system aims to track and study the development status of Chinese financial centers, in a bid to inform policy optimization by relevant decision-makers, and provide a watchtower for the society to observe the development of Chinese financial centers. The first CFCI was released in 2009 and has been updated annually since then.

CFCI 14 employs a four-level structure with a total of 95 indicators covering four aspects, i.e., performance of financial industry, capacity of financial institutions, scale of financial market, and ecology of financial sector, for a comprehensive and in-depth evaluation of the development status of 36 representative financial centers in China. There are 5 newly added sample cities in CFCI 14, i.e., Haikou, Taiyuan, Hohhot, Guiyang and Lanzhou.

This summary report provides an overview of the results of the 14th edition of the CFCI.

The China Development Institute CFCI research team can be reached at Mr ZHANG Xiang (zx@cdi.org.cn) or Mr YU Peng (pyu@cdi.org.cn).