Research on the Measurement of Logistics Capability of Core Cities along “the Belt and Road” in China

Table 2

Cluster analysis of raw data.

City	Urban economic strength			Urban investment and construction capacity	Urban external circulation capacity
	GDP	The total volume of retail sales	The proportion of secondary and third industry in GDP	Investment in fixed assets of the whole society	Urban freight volume	Urban passenger traffic
Ningbo	0.289	0.257	0.725	0.288	0.330	0.200
Xiamen	0.096	0.076	0.971	0.102	0.099	0.071
Guangzhou	0.635	0.730	0.921	0.424	0.704	0.474
Nanning	0.080	0.119	0.000	0.220	0.241	0.053
Seaport	0.000	0.016	0.487	0.000	0.069	0.231
Chengdu	0.338	0.381	0.717	0.639	0.410	0.718
Kunming	0.101	0.142	0.626	0.255	0.216	0.075
Xi’an	0.171	0.248	0.704	0.443	0.412	0.219
Lanzhou	0.034	0.055	0.820	0.074	0.065	0.004
Xining	0.001	0.000	0.761	0.017	0.000	0.009
Yinchuan	0.014	0.000	0.678	0.048	0.100	0.000
Urumqi	0.053	0.063	0.942	0.041	0.153	0.004
Tianjin	0.575	0.459	0.938	0.925	0.454	0.159
Shanghai	1.000	1.000	1.000	0.644	1.000	0.048
Chongqing	0.500	0.511	0.390	1.000	0.964	1.000