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World Affairs 5/17/2015 @ 11:54上午 16,776 views Move Over, Hong Kong, Shenzhen Now Chinas Best City For?BusinessShenzhen passed Hong Kong to become China’s most competitive city in the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences 2014 rankings. Hong Kong had held the top spot ever since its first inclusion in the survey a decade ago. Shenzhen, which borders Hong Kong, switched places, rising from No. 2 last year.The survey of 294 cities, contained in CASS’s Blue Book on Urban Competitiveness, was released Thursday in Beijing.The Shenzhen skyline (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)The Pearl River Delta dominated the rankings with, in addition to Shenzhen and Hong Kong, Guangzhou at No. 5 and Macau at No. 9.Shanghai remained third from the 2013 survey. Beijing fell two notches, landing in eighth place.Hong Kong lost its leader-of-the-pack position largely because it did not support innovation. Its Census and Statistics Department reported that in 2013, the last year for which figures are available, the city’s public and private sectors and its educational institutions spent an amount equal to 0.73% of its gross domestic product on research and development for innovation and technology. Shenzhen, on the other hand, devoted 4.05% of its GDP last year to such areas.Why the heavy emphasis on innovation? Perhaps because Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, with his much-publicized “Internet Plus” plan unveiled in early March, has placed his hopes on new businesses to revive the country’s economy. His concept is that Beijing can invest in innovation, and CASS has evidently adopted the theme.Hong Kong, on the other hand, has its noninterventionist philosophy and refrained, for the most part, from picking winners and losers. In any survey conducted by a Beijing-based organization, Hong Kong is bound to lose out to cities implementing activist policies favored by the country’s leaders.For decades, Hong Kong has worried about losing out to Singapore, run by world-class interventionists. Now,