The southern economic hub of Guangzhou recently joined the list, making it the first of China’s biggest, tier-one ...

Nanjing, located in the Yangtze River basin, has recently emerged as one of China’s leading producers of IT products, petrochemicals and automobile components. Many of the second-tier cities ...

The sharp rise of house prices in China’s Tier-1 cities has fostered a great deal of commentary about the possibility of bubbles forming there. However, China’s unique housing market characteristics ...

Cities in China are classified into tiers based on population and economic size. Megacities are tier one, provincial capitals are tier two, and smaller cities fall into the lower tiers.

Big cities like Beijing and Shanghai show signs of recovery while smaller regions are dealing with oversupply and weak demand ...

Tier 1 cities such as Beijing and Shanghai are seen to have retained higher borrowing costs than lower-tier cities, which have largely removed the mortgage rate floor after policy shifts last year.

A higher than average number of gig workers in one of China’s four tier-one cities has become apparent to residents of Guangzhou at a time the city’s gross domestic product growth is slowing ...

China’s home prices fell by the most in nine ... New home prices in the four tier-1 cities – Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen – fell 0.5 per cent month on month in September ...