Fig. 1: Digital City Competitiveness of 15 emerging first-tier cities from 2017 to 2021.

This figure illustrates the Digital City Competitiveness Index for 15 emerging first-tier cities, plotted on the vertical axis. The horizontal axis represents names of cities. Different colors in the graph indicate the Digital Competitiveness Index level for each city in the respective year. The red dots signify the average Digital City Competitiveness Index for each city.