The 22 City Business Charm Ranking is in the latest list. Shantou, ranked 53rd in China, is a third-tier city.

Shantou can't reach the newly promoted second-tier cities at present, for many reasons, including the low GDP per capita. Evaluation of the city's future development potential, urban traffic planning and travel status, urban people's livelihood happiness index, urban open business atmosphere index, urban employment and social security, urban comprehensive environmental governance, urban comprehensive management and operation and efficient government efficiency are all evaluation criteria. Specific introduction:

Shantou is an important port city along the southeast coast of China, an important gateway to the Maritime Silk Road, a sub-central city in Guangdong Province, an open port city along the coast of China, a famous hometown of overseas Chinese in China, an excellent tourist city in China, a top 1 city with an investment environment in China, a brand economy city in China, a national demonstration city for intellectual property work, a national e-commerce demonstration city, a national pilot city for information consumption, a national double-support model city, a China stationery production base and a national transportation hub city. Known as "the hub of South China, the seaside Zou Lu, the hometown of food".

Shantou is one of the important ancestral homes and settlements of Chaoshan people, and one of the important birthplaces and prosperous places of Chaoshan culture. Where "where there is sea water, there are hipsters", there is no doubt that Chaoshan culture exists where there are hipsters.

Chaoshan culture in Shantou is a branch of the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation, which has the characteristics of compatibility between Chinese and foreign cultures. It is represented by Chaoshan dialect, Chaoshan singing and dancing, Chaozhou Opera, Chaoshan cuisine, Chaoshan embroidery, congou, Chaoshan craft, Chaoshan embroidery, Chaoshan folk houses, Chaoshan Shantang, Chaoshan merchants' gang, Chaoshan woodcarving, welcoming old people and going out to the garden. There are more than 5 million overseas Chinese and compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan in Shantou, covering more than 1 countries and regions in the world. Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Shantou for the above contents.