1. City population. How many people are currently registered in the city? How many new people are added to the household register every year? This determines the size of the city, there are people will have production and economy. As soon as more people, all kinds of consumption will be more. People's primary need is to eat, so this is the most important. On the contrary, the population decline, the foreign population is not much, then the food and beverage will not be developed.
2. The number of economic growth. This can also be found by going to the government website. If you say downward, that can be from the side, the industry are not good.
3. With the current city consumption habits or customs have a relationship.
Integrated according to the data I have seen before, catering underdeveloped cities to Shanxi more. The second reference, less populated Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Jilin and so on.