Table 3 Business environment scores and rankings of provincial capital cities.

From: Endowing urban business environments with an intelligent brain: empirical evidence from cities in western China

City

2006

Rank

2021

Rank

Chongqing

0.1666

1

0.7531

2

Chengdu

0.1499

2

0.7797

1

Xi’an

0.1026

3

0.5044

3

Ürümqi

0.0913

4

0.1761

7

Kunming

0.0622

5

0.2602

4

Nanning

0.0540

6

0.1900

6

Guiyang

0.0534

7

0.2096

5

Lanzhou

0.0441

8

0.1112

9

Hohhot

0.0363

9

0.1345

8

Yinchuan

0.0240

10

0.0828

11

Xining

0.0233

11

0.0917

10

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