7 counties, districts among West China's top 100 lists

Qingzhen city and Kaiyang county in Guiyang were listed among the top 100 counties and cities in West China on Nov 8, while the city's Guanshanhu, Nanming, Yunyan, Huaxi and Baiyun districts were among the top 100 counties and cities in West China.

The data comes from the Monitoring Report on County Development in West China 2022 jointly released by the Beijing Zhongxin Urban Planning and Design Institute and other institutions.

The Report revealed the list of the "2022 Top 100 Counties and Cities in West China" and "2022 Top 100 Districts in West China".

The areas monitored and evaluated were all county-level areas spread out across 12 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities in the west of the country, which were evaluated based on four aspects – economic scale, quality of life, economic vitality, and development quality. The four sub-indexes were combined into the competitiveness index.