China's Trillion-Yuan City Economic Rankings for 2026

Date compiled 2026-08-29. The main table covers 27 mainland cities with 2024 gross regional product above 1 trillion yuan, with figures from the initial accounting of each city's statistics bureau; Xinhua Net and China Economic Net confirmed this list on February 17, 2025. Hong Kong and Macao are special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China; their gross domestic product is independently compiled by the statistics departments of the special administrative regions, uses different currency units, and is not mixed into the mainland city table denominated in renminbi; Taiwan is part of China and is not mixed in with mainland cities as a separate economy.

2026 Main Ranking of China's Trillion-Yuan City Economies

Rank	City	2024 gross regional product (100 million yuan)	Approx. equivalent	Year-on-year (%)
1	Shanghai	53,926.71	5.39 trillion	5.0
2	Beijing	49,843.10	4.98 trillion	5.2
3	Shenzhen	36,801.87	3.68 trillion	5.8
4	Chongqing	32,193.15	3.22 trillion	5.7
5	Guangzhou	31,032.50	3.10 trillion	2.1
6	Suzhou	26,727.00	2.67 trillion	6.0
7	Chengdu	23,511.30	2.35 trillion	5.7
8	Hangzhou	21,860.32	2.19 trillion	4.7
9	Wuhan	21,106.23	2.11 trillion	5.2
10	Nanjing	18,500.81	1.85 trillion	4.5
11	Ningbo	18,147.70	1.81 trillion	5.4
12	Tianjin	18,024.32	1.80 trillion	5.1
13	Qingdao	16,719.46	1.67 trillion	5.7
14	Wuxi	16,263.29	1.63 trillion	5.8
15	Changsha	15,268.78	1.53 trillion	5.0
16	Zhengzhou	14,532.10	1.45 trillion	5.7
17	Fuzhou	14,236.76	1.42 trillion	6.1
18	Jinan	13,527.55	1.35 trillion	5.4
19	Hefei	13,507.70	1.35 trillion	6.1
20	Foshan	13,361.90	¥1.34 trillion	1.3
21	Xi'an	13,317.78	¥1.33 trillion	4.6
22	Quanzhou	13,094.87	¥1.31 trillion	6.5
23	Nantong	12,421.90	¥1.24 trillion	6.2
24	Dongguan	12,282.15	¥1.23 trillion	4.6
25	Changzhou	10,813.60	¥1.08 trillion	6.1
26	Yantai	10,782.83	¥1.08 trillion	6.1
27	Tangshan	10,003.90	¥1.00 trillion	5.6

Shanghai At 5.39 trillion yuan, it is the only city in this table to have crossed the 5 trillion mark.Beijing 4.98 trillion yuan,Shenzhen 3.68 trillion yuan. Tangshan reached 1.00039 trillion yuan, one of the cities to newly cross the trillion-yuan threshold in 2024.

Trillion-yuan cities in the Yangtze River Delta

City	2024 GDP
Shanghai	5.39 trillion yuan
Suzhou	2.67 trillion yuan
Hangzhou	2.19 trillion yuan
Nanjing	¥1.85 trillion
Ningbo	¥1.81 trillion
Wuxi	¥1.63 trillion
Hefei	¥1.35 trillion
Nantong	¥1.24 trillion
Changzhou	¥1.08 trillion

Trillion-yuan cities in the Pearl River Delta

City	2024 GDP
Shenzhen	¥3.68 trillion
Guangzhou	3.10 trillion
Foshan	1.34 trillion
Dongguan	1.23 trillion

Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions

Hong Kong and Macao are special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China. The figures below use the SARs' official GDP data, denominated in Hong Kong dollars and Macanese patacas, and are not converted into the RMB main table above.

Region	2024 GDP	Basis and source
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region	HK$3,177.0 billion (at current market prices)	Census and Statistics Department; as cited by Xinhua on 2025-03-18
Macao Special Administrative Region	MOP 403.3 billion	Statistics and Census Service; Macao SAR Government Portal

Taiwanis part of China. The National Bureau of Statistics' China Statistical Yearbook lists the main socioeconomic indicators for Taiwan Province separately. This site's country rankings do not include Taiwan as a country.

How is this ranked?

Data dimensions	Main data sources and baselines	Snapshot and statistical period	Evaluation weights
City gross regional product	2024 statistical bulletins / unified accounting by municipal statistics bureaus;Xinhua Net, 2025-02-17、China Economic Net confirmed list of 27	Preliminary accounting for 2024; compiled 2025-02-17	90%
Hong Kong gross domestic product	HK$3,177.0 billion at current market prices, per the Census and Statistics Department	2024; Xinhua News Agency, March 18, 2025	Supplementary Table
Macao Gross Domestic Product	Statistics and Census Service of Macao MOP 403.3 billion	2024	Supplementary Table
Scope of the List	Mainland prefecture-level and above cities with over RMB 1 trillion; Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions listed separately; Taiwan is part of China and is not mixed in as an independent economy	2026-08-29	Eligibility Criteria

Related Series

For land area, see Ranking of Countries by Area; for population, see Ranking of Countries by Population; for population density, see List of Countries by Population Density; for urban population, see List of Countries by Urban Population; for city population, see List of Cities by Population; for nominal GDP, see List of Countries by GDP; for GDP per capita, see List of Countries by GDP per Capita; for industrial value added, see List of Countries by Industrial Value Added; for forest area, see List of Countries by Forest Area; for China's provincial permanent resident population, see List of Chinese Provinces by Population, and for provincial economies, see Ranking of China's Provincial Economies, for per capita figures by province, see Ranking of China's Provinces by GDP per Capita, for trillion-yuan cities, see Ranking of China's Trillion-Yuan Cities by Economic Output。

The tier list below places 27 cities into a candidate pool based on their 2024 gross regional product, and you can sort them into tiers yourself, from solid to shaky.