Recently, China Art City Ranking 2017 was released in Beijing. Wuhan was the 6^th in the ranking, after Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Shenzhen and Nanjing.

With the 30 provinces of the largest GDP in China selected as samples, the research chose art resources, art events, art popularization and art taste as the criteria and statistics and scores from the government, internet and experts to assess the development status of these cities.