Table 4.1 lists the quality of life indexes and rank for the 35 provincial capitals,municipalities directly under the Central Government and municipalities separately listed on the State plan(including both objective indexes and subjective satisfaction indexes). It should be noted that,due to the adjustments in the 2012 objective index system and especially to the replacement of registered household population with city permanent population,there is no comparability between the 2012 objective index rank and that in 2011. Therefore,there is no comparison between findings in Table 4.1 and the results in 2011. In addition,when comparing the subjective satisfaction index rank of 2012 and 2011,impacts of the 5 newly added municipalities separately listed on the State plan need to be excluded.