China News Service, January 31 (China News reporter Zuo Yukun) With Changzhou, Jiangsu, and Yantai, Shandong, joining hands to become a city with a GDP of one trillion, the number of cities with a GDP of one trillion has increased to 26.

Changzhou and Yantai advance together

　　As the newest city with the smallest population in the “Trillion Club”, Changzhou’s “win” and “unique skills” lie in the new energy industry.

　　Changzhou is known as the "City of New Energy". The output value of Changzhou's new energy industry will reach about 750 billion yuan in 2023, accounting for nearly one-third of the city's industrial output value. The output of new energy vehicles is nearly 680,000 units, and investment is hot across the country. First.

　　Changzhou has a strong family background and has the most complete industrial system among similar cities in China. There are 37 of the 41 major categories of national industry and 605 of the 666 sub-categories. Changzhou's promotion also makes Jiangsu the first province in the country to have five trillion-dollar cities.

　　Yantai has become the third trillion-level city in Shandong. At the beginning of the new year, the "Gravity-1" (Yaoyi) carrier rocket was launched into the sea off Yantai, Shandong Province, setting multiple records and changing people's previous perception that Yantai was only famous for its seafood and fruits.

　　As a strong industrial city, Yantai has focused on the "9+N" manufacturing cluster in recent years and implemented the "chain length system" for 16 key industrial chains. It plans to form one each with a level of 300 billion and a level of 200 billion, and one with a level of 200 billion within 3 years. A phalanx of industrial clusters with 4 billion-level industries is vigorously developing green petrochemicals, offshore equipment, automobile industry, biomedicine and other fields.

　　"The GDP of these two cities has exceeded one trillion yuan, which stems from the practice of new development concepts, firmly grasping the high-tech industry as the engine of innovation-driven development, and spawning new industries, new models, and new momentum." Ministry of Commerce Research Zhang Jianping, deputy director of the academic committee of the academy, told Sino-Singapore Finance.

  Aerial photography of Wujin, Changzhou, Jiangsu Province shows a beautiful picture of green forests and clear air. Photo by Yang Bo

"Carrying War" in the Trillion City

　　Looking back on the development of my country's trillion-yuan city, Shanghai took the lead in exceeding one trillion yuan in GDP in 2006, ushering in an era of urban economic scale of one trillion yuan. Now it is launching an impact on the country's first city with a GDP of 5 trillion yuan. In 2008, Beijing's GDP exceeded one trillion yuan for the first time, and the latest GDP in 2023 has reached approximately 4.4 trillion yuan. In 2010, Guangzhou became the first provincial capital city with an economic aggregate exceeding one trillion yuan, and will join the "3 trillion club" in 2023.

　　In 2011, the "Trillion Club" welcomed four new members: Shenzhen, Tianjin, Suzhou, and Chongqing; in 2014, Wuhan and Chengdu were both shortlisted; in 2015, Hangzhou's GDP exceeded one trillion yuan, and high-tech industries provoked The backbone of industrial structural reform.

　　In the following three years, two cities joined hands to advance each year, namely Nanjing and Qingdao in 2016, Wuxi and Changsha in 2017, and Ningbo and Zhengzhou in 2018. After Foshan made a breakthrough alone in 2019, Fuzhou, Quanzhou, Nantong, Hefei, Xi'an, and Jinan achieved joint upgrades in 2020. In the same year, China's GDP exceeded the 100 trillion yuan mark.

　　In 2021, Dongguan, a major foreign trade city, was shortlisted to seize the spot; a year later, Changzhou and Yantai became the latest faces in 2023.

　　Following closely behind, a number of waist cities such as Tangshan, Xuzhou, Dalian and Wenzhou have become the “reserve army” of the trillion-dollar city.

  A distant view of Yantai Zhifu Bay. Photo by Yang Shengwu

What does 26 trillion cities mean?

　　The vitality of cities is also an important driving force for national development. These 26 trillion-dollar cities are undoubtedly the core urban groups in China.

　　Since the GDP of various regions in 2023 has not yet been fully announced, temporarily adding the GDP of these 26 cities in 2022, we can get a total GDP of approximately 47.9 trillion yuan.

　　What is this concept? According to the average exchange rate of RMB in 2022, 47.9 trillion RMB can be equivalent to approximately 7.1492 billion U.S. dollars. According to data released by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), this number is consistent with Japan’s GDP in 2022 (4.2335 billion U.S. dollars) and France’s GDP (2.784 billion U.S. dollars). US dollars) and are similar.

　　"China is the largest contributor to global economic growth, and has contributed more than 30% to world economic growth for many years in a row. Behind the growth of China's economy, these 26 trillion-dollar cities can be said to be the leaders and pioneers." Zhang Jianping said, "The trillion-dollar cities "City" is an important urban team that leads China's innovation-driven development, low-carbon green development, and high-level open development to promote China's high-quality development.

　　These 26 trillion-dollar cities are at the forefront of industrial structure adjustment, technological innovation, and talent introduction, and are becoming a new engine for China's economic development.

　　Of course, development challenges should not be avoided. Divided from north to south, there are 19 southern cities and 7 northern cities in the Trillion City; divided from east to west, there are 19 eastern cities, 4 central cities, and 3 western cities. This also means that regional development is unbalanced and uncoordinated. This is a problem that needs to be solved in the next step. (over)