1. Chengdu to become foreign-invested financial “fourth city”, with currently 8 foreign invested banks
Recently, the Chengdu branch of Nanyang Commercial Bank (China) Limited opened to public, and the number of foreign-capital banks in the city has reached 8. According to the statistics, in counting the JPMorgan Chase and the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi which are under preparation, Chengdu will have 10 foreign-invested banks, the number ranking first in western regions and fourth in China, becoming the “fourth city” of foreign-invested finance.
2. “Ranking of Comprehensive competitiveness of Western Economic Development”, Sichuan’s general ranking topped the list
On July 12th, the ranking of the comprehensive competitiveness of West China Economic Development was released, in which Sichuan, Shanxi and Inner Mongolia were list the top three. The conclusion was drawn from the “2009 West China Blue Print: West China Economic Development Report”, which is conducted by the West China economic development research center of the Northwest University.
3. Degree of Chengdu’s integrated urban and rural development reached 65.9%
The 2008 Appraisal and Monitoring Report on the Integrated Urban and Rural Development of Chengdu conducted jointly by the Chengdu Bureau of Statistics, the Coordinating Committee of the municipal party committee and the Chengdu survey team of the National Bureau of Statistics was recently released. The report shows that the balancing urban and rural development of Chengdu in such four appraisal fields as economic development, social undertaking, cultural development and democratic political development has been fully improved in 2008, and its overall degree of realization has reached 65.9%, up 4.4% over last year.
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