Not surprisingly, Changzhou has successfully advanced to the trillion GDP club.
According to the news recently released by "Changzhou Release", in 2023, Changzhou will enter the city of trillions. The specific data has not yet been released and will not be known until the release of the statistical bulletin.
Since then, Changzhou has become the 25th trillion GDP city in the country after Dongguan's GDP exceeded one trillion yuan in 2021. Jiangsu also ushered in the fifth "trillion city".
Not surprisingly, Yantai will be the 26th, and the promotion time will also be at the end of 2023. As a result, a city pattern of 26 trillion GDP will be formed.
Let's look back at the timeline for each city to advance to a trillion GDP.
In 2006, Shanghai's GDP exceeded one trillion yuan, Beijing was promoted in 2007, Guangzhou and Shenzhen exceeded one trillion yuan in 2010, Suzhou and Chongqing in 2011, Tianjin, Chengdu and Wuhan in 2014, Hangzhou in 2015, Nanjing in 2016, Wuxi, Changsha, Qingdao and Ningbo in 2017, Zhengzhou in 2018, and Foshan in 2019. In 2020, Xi'an, Hefei, Jinan, Fuzhou, Quanzhou, and Nantong will be promoted at the same time.
Dongguan in 2021. Broken in 2022. Changzhou, 2023. Although Yantai has not yet been announced, there is basically no suspense.
Last year, when analyzing the semi-annual and third-quarter reports of Changzhou and Yantai, it was said that these two cities can basically enter the trillion GDP club in 2023.
Yantai Bureau of Statistics announced:GDP in the first three quarters was 726 billion yuan, with an actual growth rate of 67%。
Changzhou Bureau of Statistics announced:GDP in the first three quarters was 7006100 million yuan, the actual growth rate is 67%。
Data: Yantai and Changzhou Bureau of Statistics have run at the same speed, and both have significantly outperformed the national average growth rate. Coincidentally, the growth rate in the first half of the year was also 7%. Clearly, the two cities are secretly at loggerheads.
Judging from the GDP of the two cities in the fourth quarter last year, Yantai can successfully advance even if the GDP in the fourth quarter remains unchanged. As long as Changzhou grows slightly, it can also achieve promotion.
Now that Changzhou has officially announced its promotion, Yantai has no suspense.
Why can Changzhou be among the trillions? The answer lies in its dedication to industry.
China's cities have always been policy-driven. Top cities are the result of top-level design, such as Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou and other cities. Especially Beijing-Shanghai.
Such a city can obtain policy benefits and attention that ordinary cities cannot enjoy at all. High-quality industries will basically fall in these cities, such as the financial industry, who can compete with Beijing and Shanghai.
As an ordinary prefecture-level city, if you want to stand out in the army, the only way to do this is to take one step at a time, persevere in building your own industry, and become a hard fist.
Changzhou is doing these things right.
In the past ten years, many industrial cities have been chasing the service industry, although Changzhou is also increasing the proportion of the service industry, but always adhere to the bottom line of the industrial city.
From the investment data, it can be seen that in the past few years, a large amount of investment in Changzhou has been invested in the secondary industry, to promote the manufacturing industry. In 2021, the secondary industry accounted for 4314%, a decrease of only 864 percentage points.
*: Changzhou 2022 Statistical Yearbook In this context, when the proportion of secondary industry in most cities is declining rapidly, Changzhou has only decreased slightly. In 2015, the secondary industry accounted for 496%, still 47 in 20217%。
The secondary sector still contributes about half of the economy.
*: Changzhou 2022 Statistical Yearbook This is a wise move by Changzhou.
At present, Changzhou has four manufacturing industries of 100 billion yuan, namely electrical machinery and equipment manufacturing (output value of 295.6 billion yuan), ferrous metal smelting and rolling processing industry (output value of 148.5 billion yuan), general equipment manufacturing industry (output value of 111.6 billion yuan), and special equipment manufacturing industry (output value of 103.6 billion yuan).
The total output value of the four 100 billion industries is 652.7 billion yuan, ranking 18th in the country.
Moreover, in the context of large-scale smashing of funds into the secondary industry, Changzhou has seized the most fashionable industry at the moment, new energy. Changzhou's new energy automobile industry, even Suzhou is envious, proposed to learn from Changzhou.
In 2022, Changzhou will achieve a vehicle output of 340,000 new energy vehicles, accounting for half of Jiangsu Province and ranking 6th in the country.
According to the latest official data released by Changzhou, it is expected that the annual output of new energy vehicles in 2023 will be 680,000 units, accounting for 70% of the province's output. Among them, Li Auto released its final report for 2023, delivering 376,030 vehicles for the whole year, a year-on-year increase of 1822%, successfully won the annual sales championship of new car-making forces.
At the same time, Changzhou's new energy output value in 2022 will exceed 500 billion yuan, forming an industrial ecological closed loop of power generation, energy storage, transportation and application, and the production and sales of power batteries rank first in the country.
The new energy vehicle industry chain will be an important bargaining chip and fundamental confidence for Changzhou to continue to climb in the future.
Recently, Jiangsu Province issued the "Opinions on Supporting the High-quality Development of Changzhou's New Energy Industry" to support Changzhou to build a "new energy vehicle capital".
And set a goal, by 2025, Changzhou's new energy field output value will strive to exceed one trillion yuan.
In 2023, Changzhou will not only achieve GDP promotion, but also win a new round of subway planning approval with its own efforts and strength.
In September 2023, Changzhou Metro officially disclosed that the National Development and Reform Commission approved the "Changzhou Urban Rail Transit Phase II Construction Plan (2023-2028)".
*: Although Changzhou does not have the qualifications to be approved from the perspective of subway passenger flow intensity, Changzhou is still lucky and successfully won the second phase of the subway plan.
It can only be said that the harder you work, the luckier you are, and it has become a footnote to the city of Changzhou.
With the official announcement of Changzhou and the promotion of Yantai basically without suspense, Chinese cities have ushered in a new round of changes.
The number of cities with a GDP trillion has increased to 26.
Among them, there are 7 in the north, namely: Beijing, Tianjin, Qingdao, Zhengzhou, Jinan, Xi'an, and Yantai.
There are 19 in the south, namely: Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Chongqing, Suzhou, Chengdu, Wuhan, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Ningbo, Wuxi, Changsha, Foshan, Fuzhou, Quanzhou, Hefei, Nantong, Dongguan and Changzhou.
The next trillion cities to be approved are Tangshan, Xuzhou, Dalian, and Wenzhou.
At the same time, with the entry of Changzhou, the number of cities with a trillion GDP in Jiangsu has increased to 5, surpassing Guangdong's 4.
This may change the pattern of competition for hegemony between Guangdong and the Soviet Union.
The dispute between Guangdong and the Soviet Union is the most interesting group in China's regional competition, the two super provinces have been in love with each other for decades, and Guangdong has always pressed Jiangsu.
But judging from the trend in recent years, Jiangsu does see the possibility of surpassing Guangdong.
Before the reform and opening up, Jiangsu's GDP also ranked second, but the first place at that time was not Guangdong, but Shanghai. The rise of Guangdong began in the 90s.
In the 80s of the last century, Jiangsu, relying on the southern Jiangsu model, vigorously developed, once briefly ranked first. But later, under the spring breeze of reform, Guangzhou and Shenzhen in the Pearl River Delta rose strongly. In 1989, Guangdong officially surpassed Jiangsu and established its position as the most powerful province in China's economy.
At the same time, Jiangsu retreated to the second seat, and this pattern of Guangdong first and Jiangsu second has been maintained until now.
And in the past 33 years, most of the time Guangdong has been widening the gap between Guangdong and Jiangsu.
In 1989, Guangdong was 59 ahead of Jiangsu5.4 billion yuan. In 1990, the gap widened to more than 10 billion, in 1997 to more than 100 billion, in 2000 to more than 200 billion, in 2007 to more than 500 billion, and in the following years the gap narrowed slightly.
By 2016, the gap began to widen again, and 2019 was the year with the largest GDP gap between Guangdong and Jiangsu, when Guangdong was 9330 ahead of Jiangsu100 million yuan.
Data: Guangdong and Jiangsu Bureau of Statistics, but since 2020, the gap has been narrowing, and the gap between the two narrowed to 6,242 last year9.8 billion yuan, which is about one-third lower than the gap in 2019.
In the first three quarters of 2022, Guangdong was ahead of Jiangsu by 307052, the gap narrowed to 2981 in the first three quarters of 202363。Although the shrinkage is not very large, the trend has been maintained.
The most important thing is that Changzhou is helping Jiangsu, while Guangdong, Dongguan's performance this year is very stretched.
Of course, judging from the whole battle situation, Guangdong has Shenzhen to stand up, and Shenzhen is still running wild with elephants.
In the first three quarters of 2023, the national GDP growth rate was 52%。
In terms of trillion-dollar cities in Jiangsu, Suzhou (42%), Nanjing (45%) underperformed **, Wuxi (58%), Nantong (55%), Changzhou (7%) outperformed**.
In terms of trillion-dollar cities in Guangdong, Guangzhou (42%), Foshan (49%), Dongguan (2%) underperformed**, Shenzhen (5.).4%) outperformed**.
Rao is so, and he thinks that the next five years will be the best time for Jiangsu to surpass Guangdong.
On the one hand, the performance of Jiangsu cities is better than that of Guangdong as a whole.
On the other hand, Jiangsu's bulk development model is better than Guangdong's.
The 13 cities under the jurisdiction of Jiangsu can all be beaten, and people give them the nickname "Thirteen Taibao".
The strength of Jiangsu's 13 cities is the second decrease.
Guangdong seems to have two centers (Shenzhen and Guangzhou) and two auxiliaries (Foshan and Dongguan), but from the perspective of God and the current situation of uneven development, it is actually a single center development, and the Pearl River Delta is regarded as a city.
In the past, this model did not have advantages or disadvantages, but now that the global environment is changing, Jiangsu's model is significantly more able to differentiate risks.
This can be clearly seen from the GDP growth rate of the cities in the two large provinces.
In 2022, among the 13 cities in Jiangsu, there are three cities with a GDP growth rate of more than 4% last year, and the lowest is also 2%.
On the other hand, among the 21 cities in Guangdong, the highest growth rate is only 33%, with the lowest growth rate of -13%。
Data: Regardless of whether Jiangsu can surpass Guangdong in the future, the dragon and tiger battle between Guangdong and Jiangsu is the most interesting group in the future regional competition.
It doesn't matter who is the first, the important thing is that this kind of healthy competition will stimulate the fighting spirit of each city and form a grand occasion of thousands of sails competition.