Hohhot ranks 58th in 2025 China Top 100 Cities list

Hohhot has ranked 58th nationwide in the 2025 China Top 100 Cities list, released by the Warton Economic Institute in Shanghai, marking a significant rise in the city's overall strength.

First launched in 2015, the annual list has become an authoritative benchmark for assessing comprehensive urban development. It employs a rigorous and balanced methodology, combining economic indicators such as GDP, savings, and fiscal revenue with factors including environment, science and education, culture, and public health to objectively reflect competitiveness and growth potential.

Hohhot is integrating technological and industrial innovation, accelerating the upgrading of traditional sectors, fostering emerging and future industries, and developing new high-quality productive forces, shaping a modern industrial system with distinct capital-city characteristics.

The Hohhot municipal government prioritizes innovation at the core of its development, introducing policies such as the "Opinions on Developing a Science and Technology Strong City", measures to optimize the innovation ecosystem, and support for high-quality growth in tech services. By integrating into the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei innovation network, Hohhot has established a "research institute + company + fund" model to advance the commercialization of scientific achievements.

In the first half of this year, the city added five new academician workstations and reached 1,453 national technology-based enterprises, both of which lead the region. Technology contract transactions totaled 1.27 billion yuan ($176.12 million), an increase of 105.6 percent year-on-year.

Hohhot aims to further refine its industrial structure and innovation capacity, steadily progressing toward becoming a major innovation hub in North China.