In the ranking of China's financial center index, Chengdu has been ranked first in central and western China for four consecutive years, creating China's fourth city of finance, and is the best place for outstanding financial talents after going up to the north and Shenzhen. With the accelerated construction of the "national central city", Chengdu will take the "western financial institutions gathering center, financial innovation and market trading center, financial services center" as the core of the three major tasks, and comprehensively enhance the "capital market, Wealth Management, Settlement Center, Venture Capital and New Finance" five core competitiveness, and strive to build "China's fourth pole of finance". According to the latest release of China's financial center index shows that the total economic output of the city of Chengdu over the trillion yuan step, 2020 will be expected to become the premier financial center in the central and western regions.

Chengdu is the city with the highest level of financial internationalization in the central and western regions. Currently, more than half of the world's top 500 companies have settled in Chengdu. Foreign financial giants such as Citi, HSBC, Standard Chartered, Royal Scotland, JP Morgan and others have set up their operations here, and the number of foreign-funded financial institutions, their asset sizes and profitability indicators all lead the central and western regions. It is also the best Midwest city in terms of entrepreneurial investment environment. As the No. 1 fastest growing city in the world in the next 10 years in the eyes of Forbes, and the 15 best emerging business cities in the world in the eyes of Fortune Magazine, Chengdu leads the Midwest in financial service functions.