Yingtan is one of the smallest prefecture-level cities in Jiangxi Province. It governs one county, one city and one district. It covers an area of ??only 3,556.7 square kilometers and has a small population. The total population at the end of 2011 was 1.134 million, of which 561,000 were urban permanent residents.

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Regardless of area and population, the entire Yingtan City combined is inferior to Poyang County.

The main pillar industries are non-ferrous metals, transportation, tourism, etc., among which the non-ferrous metal industry is the most important source of finance and taxation.

As for the development of e-commerce as mentioned in the question, I still disagree.

Although some people are engaged in the e-commerce industry, the scale is small, the degree of concentration is low, the competitiveness is not high, and it is not considered developed.

As for the QR code, it is true, but today when mobile payment is popular, it is just following the trend.

The total GDP in 2016 was 69.535 billion yuan, ranking last among cities in Jiangxi Province in terms of total volume, but ranking third in per capita GDP at 60,292 yuan.

Of course, per capita data in China often do not particularly reflect people's income status, and the same is true for Yingtan.

If we exclude a few high-income people from large enterprises and units, the overall income of Yingtan people should be only slightly above the middle level.

The local consumption level is indeed not low, mainly reflected in the price level of food.

The current price levels in all cities and counties in Jiangxi Province are not low, and some counties may not be much cheaper than Yingtan.

Therefore, the high consumption in Yingtan needs to be compared with other places. Compared with prefecture-level cities in Shandong and Hebei, it is indeed higher. This is a fact.

As for the high housing prices, the questioner obviously doesn't know much about the local situation.

Housing prices in Yingtan are not high, and can even be said to be the lowest among prefecture-level cities in Jiangxi Province.

This is related to the current imbalance between supply and demand in the local real estate market.

When the real estate market was booming in the past few years, many real estate projects were launched in the city, but the city's population was only over 1 million.

The supply far exceeds the demand, which has led to the housing price decline in Yingtan in the second half of 2014. Yingtan housing prices have been at a low level.

If someone comes to Yingtan to invest now, it should be a good time to enter the market at a low price.

Finally, let’s get down to the topic. Which first-tier city should Yingtan be considered?

It is said that the city rankings are based on five indicators: business resource concentration, urban hubness, urban people's activity, lifestyle diversity and future plasticity. The overall score is calculated by weighting the scores and finally ranked according to the score.

Frankly speaking, except for its urban hubness, Yingtan is not very outstanding in several other indicators, and the overall score cannot be too high.

At present, Yingtan is still a fifth-tier city.

Of course, the details of these scoring systems are not disclosed, and some are not easy to understand.

If we change the idea of ????a simple image, it may be better to understand.

The megacities of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen are listed as first-tier cities; the second-tier cities are the outstanding ones among provincial capitals, municipalities directly under the Central Government, and cities under separate state planning, such as Hangzhou, Chongqing, Wuhan, Qingdao, etc.; the other cities among provincial capitals, municipalities directly under the Central Government, and cities under separate state planning are

It is classified as the third tier; the fourth tier is the outstanding prefecture-level cities; the lower-ranked cities among the prefecture-level cities are regarded as the fifth tier.

So according to the current city size, economic level and future potential of Yingtan, it can still only be ranked among the fifth-tier cities.

In other words, Yingtan City’s ranking as a fifth-tier city is relatively accurate.

Some people may think that Yingtan suffers because of its small population. In fact, Yingtan’s lagging ranking is due to its single economic structure and low competitiveness, resulting in insufficient growth and future potential.

This requires the local government to work hard on management and services to provide a better market environment for entrepreneurial investment.

With the economic rise of Anhui Province, many people have gradually begun to pay attention to Jiangxi Province, which was once at the same economic level as Anhui Province, and have higher expectations for its subordinate cities.

Among them, the most promising cities are naturally Nanchang, the provincial capital of Jiangxi, and Ganzhou.

This optimism is not only reflected in economic development, but also in the field of education. This can be seen from the increasing number of postgraduate students reported in Jiangxi Province's universities year by year.

But in addition, there is another powerful city in Jiangxi Province that is always ignored. It is Shangrao City in the northeastern region of Jiangxi.

In terms of geographical location, Shangrao, which is adjacent to Zhejiang and Anhui and across the mountains from Fujian Province, has a very unique geographical location.

The most important thing is that with the rapid development of transportation in my country in recent years and the large-scale coverage of high-speed rail, the transportation time between the inland city of Jiangxi and my country's super city Shanghai has been greatly shortened.

Nowadays, it only takes about two hours to take a high-speed train from Shangrao to Shanghai.

In this way, the economic exchanges between Shangrao and Shanghai and other economically developed cities in the eastern coastal areas will inevitably become closer.

As for Shangrao City, even if the province does not have many resources that can be allocated, its economic development cannot be underestimated.

Secondly, from the perspective of Shangrao City’s resources, if you don’t say anything else, just by interpreting its name, that is, “Shan Yu Zhenqi”, you can tell how rich its resources are.

The first is tourism resources, which include natural resources such as Sanqing Mountain and Guifeng Mountain, as well as local celebrities such as Zhu Xi.

As for specialties, there are countless of them. Longwei Inkstone and Tianguilin are both famous.

Secondly, Shangrao City is also rich in mineral resources, especially in some non-ferrous metals.