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The Urban China Initiative

Preface

The China Urban Sustainability Index is an annual research project undertaken by the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) and the Urban China Initiative (UCI). UCI is a think tank co-founded by McKinsey & Company, Columbia University, and Tsinghua University in 2010. UCI’s mission is to convene leaders from the public and private sectors to promote sustainable urbanization and economic growth in China.

UCI has three goals:

Provide solutions: Develop the latest and best solutions for urban development in China.

Train talent: Create a professional platform to convene domestic and international experts in urban development

Organize dialogues: Organize urbanization discussions at national, provincial and municipal levels.

UCI has been an active contributor to China’s research in urbanization and academic discussions for several years. UCI offers insights and tools for national and local policy makers who shape China’s urbanization path. The China Urban Sustainability Index 2013 is the latest research built on the achievements of A New Tool to Measure Urbanization in China, issued in 2010, and The Urban Sustainability Index 2011.

USI 2013 evaluates the level and potential of China’s urban sustainability development. It does this by analyzing key factors influencing sustainable urban development, identifying bottlenecks restricting sustainable development for different types of cities, finding the gap between Chinese cities and advanced cities in the developed world using international benchmarking and sharing experience from city case studies.

Led by Jonathan Woetzel (a Director of McKinsey & Co. and co-Chair of the Urban China Initiative), USI 2013 is a research collaboration between UCI and a team of McKinsey experts, including Gengtian Zhang, Xiujun Li, Xiaopeng Li and Yingjie Zhang.

Many provincial and municipal government leaders generously assisted us in the

development of detailed case studies in the report. We would like to thank the following individuals:

Liu Ji, Chief Economist of Guangdong DRC; Ma Hangyu, Division Director of Guangdong DRC; Fan Weibin, Deputy Director of Shaanxi DRC; Xu Yuanzhi, Deputy Director of Guizhou DRC; Zhang Zhihong, Division Director of Guizhou DRV; Zhao Feng, Division Director of Shanndong DRC; Tang Aibin, Division Director of Guangxi DRC; Ding Linqiao, Deputy Director of Jinan DRC; Hu Yibin, Deputy Director of Yantai DRC; Rong Yihong, Party Secretary of Fangcheng Gang; Gao Shenge, Chief Economist of Jieyang DRC, Zhang Shuiqing, Division Director of Ningbo DRC; Zhao Liang, Director of Yang Zhou DRC.

Without their support, we would not have been able to analyze and summarize such a vast quantity of local government policies and practices, or share their successful case studies

with our readers.