The report also identified Shanghai's pivotal role in where the talent goes, said Chen Yubo, head of Tsinghua University's Center for Internet Development and Governance in the School of Economics and Management.
The report excluded companies that didn't take chip design as their main business from the list, such as Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent, and did not include subsidiaries of large companies, such as Huawei Holdings HiSilicon.
The report said an increasing number of talented workers will flow from first-tier cities, such as Beijing and Shanghai, to the "new first-tier cities," such as Hangzhou in Zhejiang province and Xi'an in Shaanxi province.
The report describes the highway as an important project in the province's tourism development and construction of an international tourism and consumption center.
The regulation urges railway operators to establish a management system for passenger social credit and report those who disrupt orderly transportation, endanger railway safety and other violations.
The report is based on an online questionnaire that surveyed over 700 scientists in 20 major cities across the world, the result of collaboration between the Shanghai Institute for Science of Science and United States academic publisher Springer Nature.
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The report cited the Suzhou Museum in Jiangsu province as a positive example of developing unique cultural and creative products such as cookies and seeds.
The report found that a decreasing proportion of unicorns are originating in the US.
The report said China has 42 percent of global e-commerce, which processes 11 times more mobile payments than the United States, and is home to one-third of the world's unicorn companies (private startups valued at more than billion).
The report noted Britain's strength in the offshore wind sector, where energy prices continue to fall.