Shanghai the most global city in China? Think again

In their second annual Global Cities Index, Foreign Policy magazine (which puts together the ranking management consulting firm A.T. Kearney, and The Chicago Council on Global Affairs) takes aim at Shanghai pride, ranking the city 20th (tied with Frankfurt), below Beijing, which comes in at number 15.

The rankings were not done by city size alone. Many of the world's largest megalopolises, like Karachi (60), Lagos (59), and Kolkata (63), didn?t break the top 50. Instead the goal of the survey was to measure how much influence a city yields outside its own borders -- however bursting at the seams those borders might be. read more

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