Global index 40 in mainland China

Singapore, one of the world's top four accounting companies and The economist think-tank, published yesterday, showing that in the global rankings of the world's 60 economies the city ranked first, with Hong Kong second and China ranked 40th.　　The rankings are based on the 5 major criteria for assessing globalization, such as the openness of trade, capital mobility, cultural integration, technology and exchange of views, and the mobility of labour.　　According to the latest rankings, Hong Kong, China, ranked second in the world, ranked the highest in terms of capital mobility and cultural integration. In this ranking, China ranked 40th in the mainland, the United States ranked 24th, Britain ranked 15th. No country in the group of 7 is among the 10 countries with the highest degree of globalization.　　China and India, the two largest economies in the BRIC countries, ranked 40 and 46 respectively. A comprehensive comparison of the 1995 and 2009 shows that the mainland of China is further globalized, with a composite index rising from 2.69 to 3.41.　　In the 2009 rankings, the least score was the cultural integration level of only 2.54, the highest is the liquidity of 4.28, followed by trade openness, then the labor mobility, technology and exchange of views. (Responsible editor: Ling Chen)