The CCID Consulting's Urban Economic Research Center recently released the 2024 list of top 100 districts in terms of innovation. Seven districts in Hunan Province made the list.

All of Changsha's six urban districts are on the list, namely Yuhua District (10th), Yuelu District (28th), Tianxin District (47th), Kaifu District (76th), Furong District (79th), and Wangcheng District (92nd).

Xiangtan's Yuhu District was shortlisted for the second time, ranking 94th.

The candidate districts were evaluated based on an innovation evaluation system, focusing on their innovation capacity in respect of innovation environment, services, entities, and effectiveness. The system composed of four first-level indicators—innovation ecology, innovation impetus, innovation entities, and innovation results, and 16 second-level indicators.
With the help of statistical data and CCID Industry Brain, CCID conducted a comprehensive evaluation of the innovation levels among county-level cities and municipal districts across the country (excluding municipalities directly under the central government, state-level new areas, Hong Kong SAR, Macao SAR, and Taiwan region). The 2024 list was thus generated.

Compared with the previous list, Changsha's Yuhua District leaped from 20th last year to 10th this year, showing the largest rise among all the shortlisted districts. Tianxin District rose two places. Wangcheng District made its debut on such list.

This article is from the Hunan Provincial Government www.enghunan.gov.cn.

Translator: Pang Yuehui

Chinese source: hunantoday