City governors and scholars discuss "happiness" in Beijing on October 31, the same day the "2015 China's Happiest City" list was released. Suzhou, for the first time, won the honorary title, as well as the "2015 Chinese Well-Off Society Demonstration Award".

The "2015 China's Happiest City" survey is co-hosted by Oriental Outlook magazine and Annual Report of Urban Development of China of Chinese Association of Mayors. Now in it's ninth year, the survey is the most influential and credible city survey and nomination program in China. This year's theme was "Well-Off Society, Happy China".

Beginning in June, 80million Chinese citizens were involved in the nationwide public survey, sample survey and data acquisition, which appraised 10 cities for the "2015 China's Happiest City" honorary title. The nine other happiest cities are Chengdu, Ningbo, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Xi'an, Changchun, Changsha, Shanghai and Beijing.

The survey focused on 42 indices of seven categories: education, healthcare, commodity price, living environment, social security, public services, and cultural life.

Organizers said that publishing the "China's Happiest City" list on the "World Cities Day", and promoting well-off and happy cities' construction achievements and experience will help to further enhance the image of Chinese cities, as well as to build the global influence of Chinese cities.