The rankings are as follows:

First-tier cities: Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Guangzhou.

New first-tier cities: Chengdu, Hangzhou, Chongqing, Wuhan, Suzhou, Xi'an, Tianjin, Nanjing, Zhengzhou, Changsha, Shenyang, Qingdao, Ningbo, Dongguan and Wuxi.

Second-tier cities: Kunming, Dalian, Xiamen, Hefei, Foshan, Fuzhou, Harbin, Jinan, Wenzhou, Changchun, Shijiazhuang, Changzhou, Quanzhou, Nanning, Guiyang, Nanchang, Nantong, Jinhua, Xuzhou, Taiyuan, Jiaxing, Yantai, Huizhou, Baoding, Taizhou, Zhongshan, Shaoxing, Urumqi, Weifang City, Lanzhou City.

Selection Criteria:

First Financial's New Tier Cities Institute organized the "New Tier Cities Summit" with the theme of "10,000 Possibilities for Cities", which released the "2019 City Business Charm Ranking". The theme of the summit was "Ten Thousand Possibilities for Cities", and the 2019 City Business Charm Ranking was released at the summit.

By collecting commercial store data from 170 mainstream consumer brands, user behavior data from 18 leading Internet companies in various fields, and urban big data from data organizations, the ranking is based on the concentration of commercial resources, urban hubs, and the activeness of urban people.

The five dimensions of lifestyle diversity and future plasticity index to assess 337 Chinese cities at prefecture level and above, the algorithm synthesizes the new first-tier cities institute expert committee scoring method and principal component analysis method to synthesize the final results, selecting the first-tier cities, new first-tier cities, second-tier cities, third-tier cities, fourth-tier cities and fifth-tier cities.

Reference for the above: Baidu Encyclopedia - List of Newly Graded Cities in China