China Financial Center Index (CFCI) has established a competitiveness evaluation system 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 provide a basis for policy optimization for relevant decision-makers, and offer 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 15 maintains the previous four-level structure, comprising a total of 95 indicators in the evaluation system. Focusing on four aspects, i.e., performance of financial industry, capacity of financial institutions, scale of financial market, and ecology of financial sector, it offers a comprehensive and in-depth evaluation of the development status of 36 representative financial centers in China.

This summary report provides an overview of the results of the 15th 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).