This book was jointly launched by the National Academy of Economic Strategy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and UN-HABITAT. It uses the indicator system and objective data to evaluate the competitiveness of 1006 cities in the world and measures the overall development pattern of global punishment and competitiveness. The important theoretical and practical issues in the development of global cities are discussed. The book looks at the world from the perspective of cities and believes that the world will be fully urbanized in the 300 years from 1750 to 2050. The book points out the challenges faced by global municipal financing and systematically summarizes the experience and methods of municipal financing and concludes that the average competitiveness of global cities declined slightly due to the decline of the average competitiveness of cities in China, the USA and Europe. In addition, this book also launched the new global urban classification standard of the Institute of Finance and Strategy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme for the first time and rated 1006 cities in the world.

1. Ranking of Urban Competitiveness 2019.- 2. The world: 300 years of Urbanization Expansion.- 3. Experience & Methods of Global Municipal Finance.- 4. 2019 Global Urban Economic Competitiveness Performance.- 5. Explanatory indicators of Economic Competitiveness.- 6. 2019 Global Urban Sustainable Competitiveness Performance.- 7. Explanatory indicators of sustainable competitiveness.- 8. A New Set of Standards for Global City Classification.