Recently, Xiamen Municipal Market Supervision Bureau released the "Monitoring Report of the City's Manufacturing Industry Quality Competitiveness Index in the Past Ten Years". Based on the measurement of the relevant data of nearly 2,000 enterprises above designated size in Xiamen, the city's manufacturing sector quality competitiveness index achieved the highest score of 90.61 in 2019 in recent years, retaining its position in terms of relatively strong competitiveness. Over the past decade, the average manufacturing quality competitiveness index of six administrative regions of Xiamen has increased from 82.19 in 2007 to 89.91 in 2019. In addition, the average quality competitiveness index of the manufacturing industry in Xiamen has also been on a gradual rise from 79.33 in 2007 to 86.21 in 2019. 27 of the existing 29 manufacturing industries have gone up. The report also shows that Xiamen has an obvious late-mover advantage in manufacturing sector quality competitiveness, as evidenced by its 0.8% average annual growth rate, higher than that of the Yangtze River Delta (0.61%), Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region (0.47%) and the Pearl River Delta (0.25%).
