Provincial sub-central cities usually refer to key cities within a province that are stronger in comprehensive strength than surrounding cities, second only to provincial capitals and have a certain distance from provincial capitals (generally 300 kilometers), have unique advantageous resources or industries, and have the ability to drive regional economic development. The purpose of setting up the provincial sub-center is to promote the scientific, coordinated and rapid development of the regional economy, recreate the economic growth pole, and reduce the development pressure of the provincial central cities; The requirement for the establishment of provincial sub-central cities is to have strong economic strength and radiation capacity.
The figure is the provincial sub-central city that has been approved and agreed to build, of which at the national level, such as the National Development and Reform Commission approved only 7, namely Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province, Luoyang City, Henan Province, Xiangyang City, Hubei Province, Changzhi City, Shanxi Province, the National Development and Reform Commission approved Ganzhou City, Jiangxi City, Yan'an City, Shaanxi Province, Zunyi City, Guizhou, and the others are approved by the people of the provinces, it is worth noting that Yichang City, Hubei Province, is approved by the people of Hubei Province Jointly approved and agreed.
It can be seen that except for Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province, the remaining 7 cities approved at the national level are all cities in the central and western provinces, which is also set to balance the development of the whole country. Xuzhou is included in order to balance the whole province of Jiangsu, southern Jiangsu is too strong, Xuzhou, Huai'an, Yancheng in northern Jiangsu, Suqian, Lianyungang need a leader, Xuzhou with its geographical location and economic development level, that is the best place, after all, Jiangsu is competing for the position of the boss, as for the provincial sub-center, these cities in southern Jiangsu are really not taken seriously.
The famous place in history has always been a battleground for soldiers. **A national historical and cultural city, a national comprehensive transportation hub, and a central city of Huaihai Economic Zone. By the end of 2022, Xuzhou has 5 municipal districts, 3 counties, and 2 county-level cities, with a total area of 11,765 square kilometers and a permanent population of 901850,000 people.
Xuzhou City is located in the southeast of the North China Plain, northwest of Jiangsu, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal passes through, the Longhai Railway, the Beijing-Shanghai Railway two major trunk lines converge here, known as the "thoroughfare of the five provinces". Xuzhou is an important gateway city in East China, an important economic, scientific and educational, cultural, financial, medical and foreign center in East China, and an important node city of the national "Belt and Road", an innovation demonstration zone for the national sustainable development agenda, a sub-central city in the north wing of the Yangtze River Delta, and a core city in the Xuzhou metropolitan area, and has the reputation of "China's construction machinery capital".
In 2022, Xuzhou will achieve a GDP of 84578.4 billion yuan, it is expected that in two more years you will be able to join the "trillion yuan city club", which will be put in other provinces, all of which are provincial capitals, but in Jiangsu Province, ranked 6th, and there are Suzhou, Nanjing, Wuxi, Nantong, Changzhou and other southern Jiangsu cities in front of it (after the economic rise of Nantong, the concept of weakening the region).
Of course, Xuzhou also has a lofty ideal, that is, the capital of Huaihai Province. I'm just afraid it's going to be far away.
It is the first city in the central non-provincial capital and the only city in the central non-provincial capital city with a subway. However, judging from the distance set by the provincial sub-center, Luoyang City is not suitable to become a provincial sub-central city, it is too close to the provincial capital Zhengzhou, only about 135 kilometers, and it can be integrated into the provincial capital economic circle like Kaifeng.
But from another point of view, the provincial sub-center is the second city in the province, which is no suspense in Luoyang City, which occupies the 500 billion stall in Henan, and the third place Nanyang is still more than 100 billion away from Luoyang, and it is difficult to catch up. Luoyang is a thousand-year-old capital (the city of Henan can speak, who is not?) ), but in the end it was defeated by Zhengzhou, the crossroads of Chinese railways. Judging from the map, Luoyang, Zhengzhou and Kaifeng are on the same level, just like the left and right of Zhengzhou, just because of the different positioning, Zhengzhou and Kaifeng have been integrated and developed, and Luoyang has the status of the provincial sub-center.
Luoyang City, the first batch of national historical and cultural cities, national regional central cities, sub-central cities of the Central Plains urban agglomeration, important node cities of the "Belt and Road", sub-central cities of Henan Province and famous tourist cities determined by the first batch of approvals. It is located in the west of Henan Province, spanning the north and south banks of the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, adjacent to Zhengzhou City in the east, Sanmenxia City in the west, Pingdingshan City and Nanyang City in the south, and Jiyuan City and Jiaozuo City in the north, with a total area of 15,230 square kilometers. As of the end of 2022, Luoyang City has jurisdiction over 7 municipal districts, 7 counties and 1 development zone; The permanent population is 70790,000 people. Luoyang is in the middle of the world, named because it is located in the sun of Luoshui, with a history of more than 5,000 years of civilization, more than 4,000 years of city history, and more than 1,500 years of history of building the capital, which is the birthplace of Chinese civilization.
1. The eastern starting point of the Silk Road and the center of the Sui-Tang Grand Canal. In history, 13 dynasties have built their capitals here, which is the earliest, longest and most dynastic city in China.
In 2022, Luoyang City will achieve a GDP of 5,675200 million yuan.
The classic case of the successful renaming of the city, when Xiangyang was still called Xiangfan, was not well known, and I went to school in Hubei at that time, and its popularity was far less than that of Jingzhou.
In the autumn of 2003, Xiangfan City was first identified as the sub-central city of Hubei Province, and in 2010, Xiangfan City was renamed Xiangyang City.
In 2012, Xiangyang officially established the development orientation of a provincial sub-central city and a modern regional central city, covering the "four Xiangyang" blueprints of industry, city, culture, green and other dimensions, and became the "new long-zhong" and roadmap for the revival of dreams; The construction of "two centers and four Xiangyangs" has been incorporated into the strategic system of "one main, two subordinate and multi-polar" in Hubei Province.
Xiangyang has a total of 3 municipal districts, 3 counties, and 3 county-level cities, with a total area of 1970,000 square kilometers, as of 2022, the permanent population is 52760,000 people.
Xiangyang is located in the middle reaches of the Han River, a tributary of the Yangtze River, and is the central city of Hubei, Henan, Chongqing and Shaanxi. The development of Xiangyang City began with Zhou Xuanwang Feng Zhongshanfu (Fan Muzhong) here, from Jingzhou Mu Liu Biao to Xiangyang Xiangyang has always been the government, road, state, road, county office. Xiangyang City is a national historical and cultural city, a provincial sub-central city, a central city in the Hanjiang River Basin, and a member of the urban agglomeration in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. Xiangyang City is an important hub of the national railway transportation network, and Xiangyang North Railway Station is the first in the country.
3. The largest railway freight marshalling station in the province is an important station for the distribution of traffic in North China, Central South and Southwest China; Xiangyang East Railway Station is the largest high-speed rail passenger station built at one time among prefecture-level cities in China, and is a super-large hub node of the national "eight vertical and eight horizontal" high-speed railway network.
In 2022, the GDP of Xiangyang City will be 58278.1 billion yuan, crossing the 580 billion yuan step, surpassing Luoyang City, Henan Province, and becoming the first non-provincial capital city in the central and western regions in terms of GDP. And its rapid growth, is expected to maintain the leading edge in the next few years, but the comprehensive strength of the city, there is still a gap with Luoyang City, and it is still difficult to sit firmly in the first city of the non-provincial capital in the central and western regions.
Once the capital of the Three Gorges Province, Yichang and Xiangyang jointly built the "one main and two secondary" development pattern of Hubei Province. From the Northwest Mouth Dam to the Three Gorges Dam....456 dams in Yichang stand to protect Yichang and even Anlan in China. Wang Hao, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a hydrologist and water resources scientist, said in an interview that Yichang has a large number of dams, rich types and strong representativeness, which can be called the world's dam museum.
Yichang City, a sub-central city in Hubei Province, an important member of the urban agglomeration in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and an important member of the core of the Yijingjing metropolitan area, was formerly known as Yiling. The starting place of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, known as the "gateway of the Three Gorges" and "the throat of Sichuan and Hubei", has created many firsts in Hubei Province and even the whole country. As of 2022, the city has 5 municipal districts, 3 county-level cities, 3 counties, and 2 autonomous counties, with a total area of 210,000 square kilometers; At the end of 2022, Yichang City had a permanent population of 39200000000 people.
Yichang City is an important comprehensive transportation hub in Hubei Province, and the Three Gorges Airport is a first-class national aviation port and an international gateway airport in western Hubei and eastern Chongqing. Yichang East Railway Station is a node station of "four vertical and four horizontal" Shanghai-Hanrong Railway; Yichang North Railway Station is a hub station of "eight vertical and eight horizontal" high-speed railways along the Yangtze River and Hunan high-speed railway; The Yichang BRT is the bus rapid transit system with the longest single line and the most stations in China.
In 2022, Yichang's gross domestic product (GDP) will be 55026.9 billion yuan. Yichang is the city with the highest per capita GDP in Hubei Province, with the completion of the Three Gorges Project, this city famous for water conservancy, beautiful scenery, rapid urban development, is the fourth largest non-provincial capital city in the central and western regions, second only to Shaanxi Lin Yulin, Hubei Xiangyang, Henan Luoyang. At present, it is working with Jingzhou City and Jingmen City to build the "Yijing Jing Metropolitan Area", which is likely to become the second level of Hubei Province's economy in the future.
The second city of GDP in Shanxi Province, Changzhi City, a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Shanxi Province, a provincial sub-central city, is located in the southeast of Shanxi, at the junction of Shanxi, Hebei and Henan provinces, located in the Shangdang Basin, east of Taihang Mountain, adjacent to Hebei and Henan provinces, Xiping Taiyue Mountain, bordering Linfen City, adjacent to Jincheng City in the south, and Jinzhong City in the north, with a warm temperate semi-humid continental monsoon climate is significant. As of October 2022, the city has jurisdiction over 4 districts and 8 counties, covering an area of 13,955 square kilometers. By the end of 2022, the total population of the city was 31420,000 people.
In Shanxi, the controversy about the second city has been a long time, Datong as an old industrial city, and a famous historical and cultural city, is the location of Pingcheng, the capital of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Datong economic coal mining, coal mining was popular in the whole country, almost everywhere there are coal teachers in Shanxi, still Datong is the most. However, with the country's strict ban on coal mining, Changzhi has come to the top, and in recent years has steadily occupied the second position in the province, coupled with the positioning of the provincial sub-central city, the future development is better than other cities in Shanxi.
Rich in coal and iron resources, Changzhi is an industrial city and the most well-known civilized garden city in the province. The green coverage rate in Changzhi is high, which is well known in Shanxi Province, where the environment is beautiful, the scenery is beautiful, and there is the freshest air and green protection in the province. Changzhi is an excellent tourist city, with rich tourism resources, Taihang Mountain Grand Canyon, Taihang Water Town, Tongtian Gorge and so on are all famous natural landscapes, many tourists come to visit.
The second largest city in Jiangxi Province, in the early years, Jiujiang and Ganzhou have been competing for the position of the second city in Jiangxi, but in the past ten years, with various policies to support the development of Ganzhou, Ganzhou's urban construction, transportation, and economy have developed rapidly, and now it has steadily occupied the second position in the province.
Ganzhou City is the largest prefecture-level city in Jiangxi Province, the administrative area accounts for a quarter of Jiangxi, the population accounts for one-fifth of Jiangxi, it can be said that Ganzhou can not develop, then Jiangxi can not develop, and Ganzhou and the provincial capital Nanchang, a south and a north, just can balance the development of the province, Ganzhou is included in the construction of the provincial sub-central city, there are the factors of Ganzhou's red revolutionary old area, but also related to Ganzhou's location advantages, adjacent to the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, so that Ganzhou has become the hottest industrial transfer base.
Ganzhou is not only red, but also the largest Hakka gathering place in the country, except for the old town of Zhanggong District and Xinfeng County, other places are Hakka. Ganzhou also retains the Song City Wall, which is the Song City of the Yangtze River, and has now been developed into a 4A-level tourist attraction. Now this season, it is the picking season of navel oranges in southern Ganzhou, and the special trains of navel oranges sent from Ganzhou to all parts of the country are rushing on various highways.
Ganzhou City, is a prefecture-level city in Jiangxi Province, a provincial sub-central city, a large city, located in the south of Jiangxi Province, located in the southern edge of the first belt, belongs to the first belt of hilly and mountainous humid monsoon climate, the terrain is mainly mountainous, hilly and basin-based, Zhangjiang River and Gongjiang River converge in Ganzhou for the Ganjiang River, with a total area of 3937964 square kilometers. As of October 2022, the city has jurisdiction over 3 municipal districts, 13 counties, and 2 county-level cities. By the end of 2022, the city's permanent population was 898810,000 people.
In 2022, Ganzhou will achieve a GDP of 4,5236.3 billion yuan.
Like Ganzhou, it is also a red city, but Zunyi's pillar industry is the soy sauce technology Moutai, which is said to have surpassed the GDP of the whole province of Guizhou Province.
Zunyi City, referred to as "Zun", formerly known as Banzhou, is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Guizhou Province, a sub-central city of Guizhou Province, an emerging industrial city and an important agricultural product production base in Guizhou Province, a political, economic and cultural center of northern Guizhou, an important city of central Guizhou urban agglomeration, and a third-tier city. As of 2022, the city has 3 districts, 7 counties, 2 autonomous counties, and 2 county-level cities, with a total area of 30,762 square kilometers and a registered population of 826360,000 people, with a permanent population of 659650,000 people.
In 2022, Zunyi City will complete a GDP of 440.1 billion yuan, while the provincial capital Guiyang City will be 492.1 billion yuan, with a difference of more than 50 billion yuan between the two cities. Moreover, the economic growth rate of Zunyi City is faster than that of Guiyang City, and it may not be necessary that Zunyi will be able to surpass Guiyang one day, so Zunyi City, the provincial sub-center, is well deserved.
Ganzhou is the starting point of the Long March, Zunyi is the turning point of the Long March, and Yan'an is the destination of the Long March. These three cities are positioned as provincial sub-central cities, and there are factors of national support for the construction of old revolutionary base areas, but the location advantages of the three cities are also superior, especially after the weakness of transportation has been compensated.
Yan'an, referred to as "Yan", is a prefecture-level city and provincial sub-central city under the jurisdiction of Shaanxi Province, located in the northern part of Shaanxi Province, in the middle reaches of the Yellow River, in the central and southern regions of the Loess Plateau, 371 kilometers north of the provincial capital Xi'an. It is connected to Yulin in the north, Xianyang, Tongchuan and Weinan in Guanzhong in the south, Linfen and Luliang in Shanxi Province across the Yellow River in the east, and Qingyang in Gansu Province in the west. The total area of the city is 370,000 square kilometers, known as "the key to the three Qin, the throat of the five roads". In 2022, the permanent population of Yan'an City is 226760,000 people.
Yan'an City has jurisdiction over 2 districts, 10 counties, and 1 county-level city. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the city's GDP has achieved "two leaps". In 2022, it reached 22319.3 billion yuan.
Yan'an can become the provincial sub-central city of Shaanxi Province, it is somewhat surprising, first of all, Shaanxi has Yulin City, just next door to Yan'an, that GDP can surpass the existence of many provincial capitals, for the central and western non-provincial capital city economic first city, of course, with mineral resources, its comprehensive strength, the scale of urban construction is far less than Luoyang City, Henan Province. Yan'an has a similar geographical area to Ganzhou in Jiangxi Province, but its population is about 7 million less than that of Ganzhou. In terms of economic development, Yan'an ranks behind Xi'an, Yulin, Xianyang, and Baoji in Shaanxi, ranking only fifth.
A friend of mine from a TV station went to Yan'an with a large army to interview, and when he came back, he told me that Yan'an is really small, but it is really strong in tourism, and as a revolutionary holy land, it is receiving tourists almost all the time, and I think this may be the reason why Yan'an can become a provincial sub-central city.
Well, the above is the current national level qualitative provincial sub-central cities, of course, the provinces also independently plan some provincial sub-central cities, such as Sichuan Province, but also planned three provincial sub-centers at once, one in eastern Sichuan, one in southern Sichuan, and one in northern Sichuan, Guangdong Province also listed Shantou and Zhanjiang as provincial sub-central cities, and Henan also listed Nanyang as a provincial sub-central city.
Under the current situation of the initial determination of the urban pattern, no new cities and sub-provincial cities will be added, and provincial sub-central cities will become the place of contention for all non-provincial capital cities. At the same time, the provinces to strengthen the construction of provincial sub-central cities, is also conducive to the balanced development of the province, not to dominate the city, policies, resources also let the provincial sub-central cities get more space for development.