These two cities, along with Hong Kong and Taipei, long established as models for cultural development in Chinese cities, are together the four brightest stars in the Chinese world. Over the years, they have built a relationship of both cooperation and competition. As they move into an era of globalization and the creative economy, competition between the four is moving from manufacturing to culture and from size to quality of life.
上海、深圳，再加上城市經濟發達、早早就成為華人城市文化發展指標的香港和台北，是其中最閃亮的四顆明星，長期在經濟上形成了合作又競爭的關係，走進了全球化、創意經濟當頭的時代，四個城市的競爭由產業來到了文化面，由都市的規模進一步到都市的生活。