Table 1. The six columns respectively show the names of the top-50 cities with maximum inflow population from Wuhan during the two weeks before the closure, the inflow population, the permanent resident population, the cumulative number of confirmed cases as of February 25, 2020, the values of the controlling parameter c, and the rankings of the control efficacy by the present method. The inflow population accounts for the number of people who left Wuhan from January 10 to January 22, 2020, obtained from “Baidu Migration”. The number of permanent residents is taken from the sixth national census (http://www.stats.gov.cn/tjsj/pcsj/rkpc/6rp/indexch.htm).