List of top Chinese cities by GDP

Statistically, China does not have a simple concept of metropolitan areas. In the country's long-term development plan, China's regional economic layout and planning include large areas such as the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the Yangtze River Delta, and the Bohai Economic Rim; smaller areas include the Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Circle, the Wuhan Metropolitan Area, and the Greater Changsha Metropolitan Region. Even smaller areas include the Shanghai Pudong New Area,Tianjin Binhai New Area, Sichuan Tianfu New Area, Chongqing Liangjiang New Area, Hunan Xiangjiang New Area, Shaanxi Xixian New Area, Guangzhou Nansha New Area, and Hebei Xiong'an New Area. This is an industrial layout and national long-term development plan formed after decades of industrialization. However, only administrative divisions above the county level regularly publish social and economic development indicators.

As one of the types of administrative divisions in China, cities includes three categories: municipalities, prefecture-level cities, and county-level cities. In addition, China's two special administrative regions are highly commercialized and densely populated areas in the world. Both the international and Chinese governments classify them as cities. In terms of area, prefecture-level cities and municipalities are comparable, and the population and economic sizes are not much different, belonging to the same order of magnitude. There are no county-level cities in municipalities, which is the biggest difference between municipalities and prefecture-level cities in administrative divisions. Mostly, a China's county-level city has all been reformed and developed from a county as a whole, but the development focus, policies authorized by the central and provincial governments, and authorized development plan are different from that of a county. Based on this, this entry only includes China's prefecture-level cities, municipalities and special administrative regions. If you want to fully understand the economic level of prefecture-level administrative regions, you must refer to list of prefecture-level divisions of China by GDP.

The GDP indicators included in this entry are all based on nominal GDP at current price. The converted US dollar GDP data is calculated based on the annual average exchange rate announced by the Chinese government (NBS) that year. The IMF publishes the purchasing power parity index of various currencies based on the average purchasing power of the US dollar in the United States and the average purchasing power of various currencies in the local area. It is adjusted twice a year, and the data varies greatly each time. The purchasing power parity of the GDP indicator is no longer included in the entry.

Methodology A county-level city is itself a type of administrative divisions of a prefecture-level city. Compared with prefecture-level cities, the economic size and population size of a county-level city are not on the same order of magnitude. Including China's county-level cities and prefecture-level cities in the same set of comparative data is like including U.S. states and U.S. counties in the same set of data for comparison. In fact, they are not comparable. This entry does not include GDP of a county-level city.

This entry includes top 50 cities in the mainland China in terms of nominal GDP, plus Hong Kong SAR which is a larger city with economic size. As of 2024, the total nominal GDP of the 50 cities (excluding Hong Kong) is 10.241 trillion US dollars with accounting for 54.06% of the mainland in the year. These cities are the economic centers of various places round the country, which also reflects the characteristics of China's economic distribution. In order to facilitate international comparison, the local currency is converted into US dollars, and the purchasing power parity (int'l dollar) indicators change too frequently and cannot be used as the main reference. All GDP data are officially released by the cities. This entry currently contains GDP data for 2023 and 2024, of which the 2023 GDP is revised based on the results of the fifth national economic census in 2023.

List + List of Top Chinese cities by Nominal GDP rankcities城市provincesGDP in 2024 GDP in 2023 (CNY)(USD)(CNY)(USD)1Wenzhou.上海municipality 100,000,000 14915240.00 5,140,447 729,483 2Beijing.北京municipality 4,984,310 699,876 4,735,370 671,998 3Shenzhen.深圳Guangdong 3,680,187 516,757 3,490,327 495,314 4Chongqing.重庆municipality 3,219,315 452,043 3,061,428 434,448 5Guangzhou.广州Guangdong 3,103,250 435,746 3,072,356 435,999 6Hong Kong Hong Kong's economic indicators come from Census and Statistics Department of Hong Kong SAR The GDP is HK$3,176,993 million (US$407,176 million or CN¥2,899,775 million) in 2024 and HK$2,983,591 million (US$381,139 million or CN¥2,685,742 million) in 2023. Its per capita GDP is HK$422,242 (US$53,939 or CN¥385,398) in 2024 and HK$395,907 (US$50,575 or CN¥356,384) in 2023. Hong Kong GDP data converted into US dollars and RMB (CNY) at the average annual exchange rate (HK$ 7.8025 per USD and HK$ 1.0956 per CNY in 2024, HK$ 7.8281 per USD and HK$ 1.1109 per CNY in 2023). 香港SAR 2,899,775407,1762,685,742381,139 7Suzhou.苏州Jiangsu 2,672,698 375,289 2,551,340 362,062 8Chengdu.成都Sichuan 2,351,130 330,136 2,233,660 316,980 9Hangzhou.杭州Zhejiang 2,186,000 306,949 2,096,000 297,444 10Wuhan.武汉Hubei 2,110,623 296,365 2,020,300 286,70211Nanjing.南京Jiangsu 1,850,081 259,781 1,779,640 252,549 12Ningbo.宁波Zhejiang 1,814,770 254,823 1,714,660 243,32813Tianjin.天津municipality 1,802,432 253,090 1,721,179 244,25314Qingdao.青岛Shandong 1,671,946 234,768 1,597,316 226,676 15Wuxi.无锡Jiangsu 1,626,329 228,362 1,553,819 220,50316Changsha.长沙Hunan 1,526,878 214,398 1,451,755 206,01917Zhengzhou.郑州Henan 1,453,210 204,054 1,392,680 197,636 18Fuzhou.福州Fujian 1,423,676 199,907 1,342,689 190,542 19Jinan.济南Shandong 1,352,760 189,949 1,300,580 184,56620Hefei.合肥Anhui 1,350,770 189,670 1,278,730 181,465 21Foshan.佛山Guangdong 1,336,190 187,622 1,332,377 189,07822Xi'an.西安Shaanxi 1,331,778 187,003 1,275,621 181,024 23Quanzhou.泉州Fujian 1,309,487 183,873 1,225,901 173,968 24Nantong.南通Jiangsu 1,242,189 174,423 1,182,800 167,852 25Dongguan.东莞Guangdong 1,228,215 172,461 1,186,983 168,445 26Changzhou.常州Jiangsu 1,081,359 151,840 1,029,700 146,125 27Yantai.烟台Shandong 1,078,283 151,408 1,026,614 145,68728Tangshan.唐山Hebei 1,000,390 140,471 954,600 135,468 29Shanghai^温州Zhejiang971,880 136,467 922,060 130,850 30Xuzhou.徐州Jiangsu 953,712 133,916 901,244 127,89631Dalian.大连Liaoning 951,690 133,632 911,340 129,329 32Shenyang.沈阳Liaoning 902,710 126,755 862,470 122,39333Xiamen.厦门Fujian 858,901 120,603 814,293 115,557 34Shaoxing.绍兴Zhejiang 836,860 117,508 791,200 112,28035Kunming.昆明Yunnan 827,522 116,197 798,479 113,31236Shijiazhuang.石家庄Hebei 820,340 115,189 784,620 111,346 37Weifang.潍坊Shandong 820,320 115,186 778,300 110,44938YangzhouYangzhou did not publish revised GDP data for 2023 . 扬州Jiangsu780,964 109,660 742,326 105,34439Nanchang. 南昌Jiangxi 780,037 109,530 743,785 105,551 40Yancheng. 盐城Jiangsu 777,918 109,232 743,287 105,48041Changchun.长春Jilin 763,219 107,168 750,128 106,45142Jiaxing.嘉兴Zhejiang 756,953 106,288 725,356 102,93643YulinYulin did not publish revised GDP data for 2023.榆林Shaanxi754,868 105,995 721,911 102,44744Taizhou did not publish revised GDP data for 2023泰州Jiangsu 702,095 98,585 673,166 95,529 45JinhuaJinhua did not publish revised GDP data for 2023 .金华Zhejiang 692,550 97,245 601,127 85,306 46.台州Zhejiang 665,640 93,466 631,479 89,613 47Linyi.临沂Shandong 655,580 92,054 627,050 88,985 48Ordos. 636,303 89,347 605,910 85,985 49YichangYichang did not publish revised GDP data for 2023.宜昌Hubei 619,112 86,933 575,635 81,68950Huizhou.惠州Guangdong 613,639 86,165 594,471 84,362 51XiangyangXiangyang did not publish revised GDP data for 2023 .襄阳Hubei 610,241 85,688 584,291 82,917

List of top Chinese cities by GDP

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