City Index beta launches for Greater China and Southeast Asia
The new beta index compares 30 cities using source-backed observations, visible coverage gaps and confidence tiers rather than a single opaque ranking.
Jingpost has launched the beta version of the Jingpost City Index, a transparent city comparison tool for Greater China and Southeast Asia. The first release covers 30 cities and is designed to show not only scores, but also the source observations and confidence tiers behind each record.
The beta model uses five dimensions: safety, livability, cost, mobility and data confidence. The current public dataset includes World Bank homicide-rate baselines and OpenStreetMap infrastructure-density proxies. Numbeo and OpenAQ adapters have been prepared for licensed or key-based ingestion, but values from those sources are not published unless they are fetched through the source-backed pipeline.
Jingpost is treating the launch as a research product rather than a definitive livability ranking. Missing dimensions are penalized in the composite score, national safety baselines are labeled as baselines rather than city police data, and OSM-derived measures are marked as lower-confidence proxies because mapping coverage varies by city.
Each city page lists the underlying observations, source links, observation dates, raw units and caveats. This is intended to make the index useful for readers who want a clear starting point for comparing markets, relocation conditions and infrastructure signals without hiding uncertainty behind a polished score.
The next phase will expand source coverage city by city, including air quality, cost-of-living, transport and official local datasets where open or licensed data is available. Jingpost will update the methodology and confidence tiers as additional source-backed observations are loaded.