After the sample survey done in more than 100 countries in 6 continents, Shanghai, Beijing, Hangzhou together with other 7 cities are the first ten cites with a title of The Best Chinese Cities ( Mainland) of Global Images .
The survey of global images of Chinese cities, organized by Xinhua News Agency s Oriental Outlook Weekly is the first scientific survey of the global images of cities in China. It was learned from the award ceremony on October 21st that the ten top cities on the list are Shanghai, Beijing, Chengdu, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Xi an, Changsha, Kunming, Changchun, among which Chengdu and Nanjing both rank the third.