List of top Chinese cities by GDP

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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
(current price, revision based on the 5th economic census 2023, millions of GDP)
rank cities 城市 provinces GDP in 2024
(ExRate: ¥7.1217 per USD) 		GDP in 2023
(revision data)
(ExRate: ¥7.0467 per USD)
(CNY) (USD) (CNY) (USD)
1 Shanghai 上海 municipality 5,392,671 757,217 5,140,447 729,483
2 Beijing 北京 municipality 4,984,310 699,876 4,735,370 671,998
3 Shenzhen 深圳 Guangdong 3,680,187 516,757 3,490,327 495,314
4 Chongqing 重庆 municipality 3,219,315 452,043 3,061,428 434,448
5 Guangzhou 广州 Guangdong 3,103,250 435,746 3,072,356 435,999
6 Hong Kong 香港 SAR 2,899,775 407,176 2,685,742 381,139
7 Suzhou 苏州 Jiangsu 2,672,698 375,289 2,551,340 362,062
8 Chengdu 成都 Sichuan 2,351,130 330,136 2,233,660 316,980
9 Hangzhou 杭州 Zhejiang 2,186,000 306,949 2,096,000 297,444
10 Wuhan 武汉 Hubei 2,110,623 296,365 2,020,300 286,702
11 Nanjing 南京 Jiangsu 1,850,081 259,781 1,779,640 252,549
12 Ningbo 宁波 Zhejiang 1,814,770 254,823 1,714,660 243,328
13 Tianjin 天津 municipality 1,802,432 253,090 1,721,179 244,253
14 Qingdao 青岛 Shandong 1,671,946 234,768 1,597,316 226,676
15 Wuxi 无锡 Jiangsu 1,626,329 228,362 1,553,819 220,503
16 Changsha 长沙 Hunan 1,526,878 214,398 1,451,755 206,019
17 Zhengzhou 郑州 Henan 1,453,210 204,054 1,392,680 197,636
18 Fuzhou 福州 Fujian 1,423,676 199,907 1,342,689 190,542
19 Jinan 济南 Shandong 1,352,760 189,949 1,300,580 184,566
20 Hefei 合肥 Anhui 1,350,770 189,670 1,278,730 181,465
21 Foshan 佛山 Guangdong 1,336,190 187,622 1,332,377 189,078
22 Xi'an 西安 Shaanxi 1,331,778 187,003 1,275,621 181,024
23 Quanzhou 泉州 Fujian 1,309,487 183,873 1,225,901 173,968
24 Nantong 南通 Jiangsu 1,242,189 174,423 1,182,800 167,852
25 Dongguan 东莞 Guangdong 1,228,215 172,461 1,186,983 168,445
26 Changzhou 常州 Jiangsu 1,081,359 151,840 1,029,700 146,125
27 Yantai 烟台 Shandong 1,078,283 151,408 1,026,614 145,687
28 Tangshan 唐山 Hebei 1,000,390 140,471 954,600 135,468
29 Wenzhou 温州 Zhejiang 971,880 136,467 922,060 130,850
30 Xuzhou 徐州 Jiangsu 953,712 133,916 901,244 127,896
31 Dalian 大连 Liaoning 951,690 133,632 911,340 129,329
32 Shenyang 沈阳 Liaoning 902,710 126,755 862,470 122,393
33 Xiamen 厦门 Fujian 858,901 120,603 814,293 115,557
34 Shaoxing 绍兴 Zhejiang 836,860 117,508 791,200 112,280
35 Kunming 昆明 Yunnan 827,522 116,197 798,479 113,312
36 Shijiazhuang 石家庄 Hebei 820,340 115,189 784,620 111,346
37 Weifang 潍坊 Shandong 820,320 115,186 778,300 110,449
38 Yangzhou 扬州 Jiangsu 780,964 109,660 742,326 105,344
39 Nanchang 南昌 Jiangxi 780,037 109,530 743,785 105,551
40 Yancheng 盐城 Jiangsu 777,918 109,232 743,287 105,480
41 Changchun 长春 Jilin 763,219 107,168 750,128 106,451
42 Jiaxing 嘉兴 Zhejiang 756,953 106,288 725,356 102,936
43 Yulin 榆林 Shaanxi 754,868 105,995 721,911 102,447
44 Taizhou, Jiangsu 泰州 Jiangsu 702,095 98,585 673,166 95,529
45 Jinhua 金华 Zhejiang 692,550 97,245 601,127 85,306
46 Taizhou, Zhejiang 台州 Zhejiang 665,640 93,466 631,479 89,613
47 Linyi 临沂 Shandong 655,580 92,054 627,050 88,985
48 Ordos 鄂尔多斯 Inner Mongolia 636,303 89,347 605,910 85,985
49 Yichang 宜昌 Hubei 619,112 86,933 575,635 81,689
50 Huizhou 惠州 Guangdong 613,639 86,165 594,471 84,362
51 Xiangyang 襄阳 Hubei 610,241 85,688 584,291 82,917

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