The World: 300 Years of Urbanization Expansion

This book was jointly launched by the National Academy of Economic Strategy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and UN-HABITAT. It uses the indicator system and objective data to evaluate the competitiveness of 1006 cities in the world and measures the overall development pattern of global punishment and competitiveness. The important theoretical and practical issues in the development of global cities are discussed. The book looks at the world from the perspective of cities and believes that the world will be fully urbanized in the 300 years from 1750 to 2050. The book points out the challenges faced by global municipal financing and systematically summarizes the experience and methods of municipal financing and concludes that the average competitiveness of global cities declined slightly due to the decline of the average competitiveness of cities in China, the USA and Europe. In addition, this book also launched the new global urban classification standard of the Institute of Finance and Strategy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme for the first time and rated 1006 cities in the world.

Pengfei Ni, director of the Center for Cities and Competitiveness of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and professor of the National Institute of Economic Strategy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, is mainly engaged in the research of urban development economics, real estate economics, competitiveness economics, and unified development economics. In 2005, he was awarded the highest award in Chinese economics - Sun Yefang Economic Works Award.