The city of Kunshan in Jiangsu province topped the Forbes list as the best commercial county-level city and the most innovative county-level city on the Chinese mainland, released by Forbes China on Dec 15, 2014. Forbes introduced this 2014 ranking list by assessing eight indexes, including talent, city size, consumptive power and passenger transport. Over the years, Kunshan has stepped up efforts into developing the headquarters economy, modern finance, logistics, exhibition economy and e-commerce. In addition, Kunshan has attached equal importance to innovation that plays a key role in improving a city’s competitiveness. Kunshan has attracted 310,000 skilled professionals, and 723 enterprises have received the "High-Tech Enterprise" recognition. The city now boasts 35,000 patents, and it also cooperates with famous universities at home and abroad to carry out national key projects. The gLAWcal Team LIBEAC project Thursday, 1 January2015 (Source: China Daily)