Recently, Forbes China has released a list of 100 cities named "Forbes China's Best Commercial Cities in 2017", among them, Chenzhou ranked 89th.In addition, Changsha, Zhuzhou, Liuyang and Yueyang City ranked 15th,77th, 87th and 93rd respectively,

"Best Commercial cities in China" is a list of cities launched by Forbes China since 2004, which aims to provide the decision basis for entrepreneurs to invest and develop in the city. The list uses 8 dimensions of the talent index, urban scale index, consumer index, passenger index, freight index, private economy vitality index, operating cost index and innovation index to observe the commercial environment and development potential of mainland Chinese cities.

In recent years, Chenzhou City has vigorously implemented the strategy of "Industry leading，all-round development", striven to develop industries, strengthen entities, raise quality and increase effectiveness, and improved the competitiveness of cities, and the investment, consumer market and service environment have been praised by the outside world. At the same time, Chenzhou has introduced a series of preferential policies to attract and retain all kinds of technical talents, which has added a new impetus to the economic development of Chenzhou.