ECONOMIST – The city of Nanjing, capital of China’s Jiangsu province, was not the obvious place to host this year’s international forum on urban competitiveness. Home to some 40 universities and colleges, the city’s culture is conservative and contemplative, not competitive. At Nanjing University, for example, students amble past, their noses buried in books as they walk. Their city ranked 247th out of 500 in the latest Global Urban Competitiveness Report unveiled at the forum in June by Ni Pengfei, of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Read More
