{"id":744796,"date":"2026-06-18T10:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T10:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/744796\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T10:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T10:59:08","slug":"mainland-china-climbs-4-spots-in-global-competitiveness-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/744796\/","title":{"rendered":"Mainland China climbs 4 spots in global competitiveness ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mainland China advanced in the global competitiveness<\/a> ranking thanks to improvement in business and government efficiency while economic performance slid, a new study shows.<\/p>\n

China climbed four places, from 16th to 12th, in this year\u2019s IMD World Competitiveness Ranking, reaching its highest spot since 2022.<\/p>\n

This advancement was supported by gains in productivity and efficiency<\/a>, finance and the labour market on the business front as well as stronger business legislation and tax policies on the government front, according to a ranking published by the Swiss business school on Thursday.Singapore topped the ranking this year, with Hong Kong<\/a> climbing to second place and Switzerland slipping from first to third. Taiwan and the UAE rounded out the top five, while four EU countries and the US made up the rest of the top 10.<\/p>\n

A nation\u2019s competitiveness is especially important in the current context of rising global fragmentation and deteriorating geopolitical conditions, according to Arturo Bris, director of the IMD World Competitiveness Centre.<\/p>\n

\u201cNations with their own tried and tested, credible institutions gain the advantage in this context because \u2013 as the international system ceases to serve so many national needs \u2013 business can carry on as usual,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Why Xi Jinping is hosting world leaders in China instead of travelling abroad to see them<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mainland China advanced in the global competitiveness ranking thanks to improvement in business and government efficiency while economic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[266919,45,49,48,95,20823,8267,46,15674,266918,266917,39701,62012,3849,7425,834,1382,15797,182],"class_list":["post-744796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-arturo-bris","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-china","tag-covid-19","tag-denmark","tag-economy","tag-hong-kong","tag-imd-world-competitiveness-centre","tag-imd-world-competitiveness-ranking","tag-mainland-china","tag-national-bureau-of-statistics","tag-singapore","tag-sweden","tag-switzerland","tag-taiwan","tag-uae","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}