Tell us your industry. You get the five Chinese cities worth entering — plus why each one made the cut, and whether its numbers are still climbing or already turning.
1 · What it does
Send us your industry in one line and you get back a short brief: the cities where that industry is actually present, the ones that still have room left, and a straight call on each. The brief tells you what to do, why, and what to watch — not a database you have to read yourself.
2 · Our analysis — the part nobody else does
Big tells you where everyone already is. We ask three different questions, and every number below comes from our own models, dated.
For every city and industry we track, we lay the last ten years end to end and label the stage it is in: ramping, near peak, declining, bottoming out. You get the direction, how fast it is moving, how much room is left, and a warning when the curve turns.
Our curve engine (v4.2) has scored 1,000 ten-year series this way, covering 2015–2024 across 179 economies. In that set 235 are sitting on a peak and 218 are already falling fast. Telling those two apart before you commit is the whole point.
InfoGap model v1 · curve engine v4.2 · 1,000 curves, 2015–2024 · run 2026-09-13Tell us your industry and you do not get the cities that merely mention it. You get the ones that actually carry it — and how crowded that claim is. Our city × industry matrix records 1,377 city–industry pairs across 384 Chinese cities and 63 industries: only 5.7% of every city × industry combination is filled.
That sparseness is the signal. Electronics appears in 132 of our city rows, manufacturing in 110, tourism in 109. When nearly every city claims an industry, that industry is a floor, not an edge. We sort the rest into three buckets: worth entering now, already crowded, and overlooked.
InfoGap model v1 · city × industry matrix, 384 × 63 · generated 2026-09-29Strong in a good year is not the same as steady in a bad one. We score each market on six weighted dimensions — diversification (25%), complexity (20%), stability (20%), upgrading (15%), recovery (15%), concentration (5%) — by percentile rank, so the result is a position, not a hunch.
The test runs today across 235 economies. It is the number that keeps you out of a place that only looks good while everything is going up.
InfoGap model v1 · resilience model, 6 weighted dimensions · 235 economies · run 2026-09-133 · Use cases
Five situations where a short, sourced city brief replaces weeks of reading.
4 · How it works & pricing
A short written brief on the cities that fit your industry: the shortlist, the reasons, the risks, and the numbers behind them — as a PDF plus a spreadsheet you can sort yourself.
Tell us your industry — one line is enough. If your industry is in our matrix you get the brief. If it is not, we tell you straight away instead of selling you a guess.
Not announced yet. This is a new product and we are finishing the city data behind the full brief. Join the list and you get the price, and the first edition, before it opens.
The city × industry matrix is regenerated daily. The curve engine is re-run as new annual data lands. Every number in the brief keeps its run date next to it.
Send one line — your industry — and we will tell you when the brief opens, and whether your industry is already in the matrix.
Email us to join the waitlist