Among the top cities, there are three groups of CPs in the most exciting city competition, Beijing and Shanghai are one group, Guangzhou and Chongqing are one group, and Wuhan and Hangzhou are also one group.
These groups of cities have alternately led in recent years. In the middle of 2022, Beijing briefly surpassed Shanghai, and was overtaken by Shanghai at the end of the year.
Guangzhou and Chongqing alternate most frequently. In 2017, Chongqing surpassed Guangzhou for the first time, Guangzhou overtook Chongqing in 2019, Chongqing overtook Guangzhou in 2022, and Guangzhou overtook Chongqing again in 2023.
There was also a brief alternation between Wuhan and Hangzhou.
In 2023, Hangzhou will surpass Wuhan and become the eighth largest city in the country. However, it is still close to Wuhan, and it is still the group that loves and kills each other the most.
Hangzhou Bureau of Statistics data shows:
In 2023, the GDP will be promoted to 2 trillion yuan, to 2,005.9 billion yuan, and the actual growth rate will be 56%。
*: Released in HangzhouWuhan Bureau of Statistics disclosed:
GDP in 2023 is 200116.5 billion yuan, an actual increase of 57%。
The two cities advanced to the 2 trillion club as scheduled, and Hangzhou's GDP narrowly beat Wuhan, once again ascending to the throne of the eighth city in the mainland economy.
At the same time, Hangzhou officially announced that it was officially promoted to a megacity.
Hangzhou released a disclosure that by the end of 2023, the urban population will exceed 10 million, reaching 1,00210,000 people, becoming one of the 10 megacities in the country.
*: Hangzhou has released an official division of the city level, and there is only one type, which is based on the permanent population of the urban area. 7 Levels:
Cities with a permanent population of more than 10 million are megacities;
Cities with more than 5 million and less than 10 million are megacities;
Cities with more than 3 million and less than 5 million are large cities;
Cities with more than 1 million and less than 3 million are large cities;
Cities with more than 500,000 and less than 1 million are medium-sized cities;
Cities between 200,000 and 500,000 are small cities;
Cities with less than 200,000 are small cities.
In 2020, the National Bureau of Statistics released a list of megacities and megacities.
In 2020, there are 7 megacities, namely Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Chengdu and Tianjin. There are 14 megacities, including Wuhan, Dongguan, Xi'an, Hangzhou, Foshan, Nanjing, Shenyang, Qingdao, Jinan, Changsha, Harbin, Zhengzhou, Kunming and Dalian.
*: National Bureau of Statistics, but this is already the old data for 2020. A lot has changed in the last three years.
First, during the 2020 census, affected by the epidemic, Wuhan's Qipu population was seriously distorted in the context of a large number of people fleeing Wuhan. Later, as the epidemic was brought under control, Wuhan was unblocked, and the population began to return.
According to official data from Wuhan, Wuhan's permanent population increased by 120 in 2021120,000 people. This is the result of the return of the population. After the population return to Wuhan, the urban population must have exceeded 10 million, and Wuhan will increase by 9 in 2022010,000 people.
In a number of public documents of the city of Wuhan, it is regarded as a megacity.
Last year, due to the upgrading of the classification of industrial parks, Suzhou was upgraded from the original town center area "121" to the city center area "111", and the more than 1 million people in the industrial park have all become permanent residents of the urban area.
Suzhou's official "Suzhou Release" disclosed at the time:
According to the statistical caliber of this adjustment, based on the permanent population data released by the seventh national population census in 2020, the permanent population of Suzhou urban area is 512510,000 people.
In September last year, Shijiazhuang officially announced that the urban population was above 5 million, reaching 5.4 million, and it was also successfully promoted.
*: After the release of Shijiazhuang, Dongguan, which is close to the megacity, has also achieved a breakthrough. Hangzhou has finally made an official announcement.
So far. The number of megacities in China has reached 10.
With Hangzhou's promotion to a megacity, the two cities are basically at the same level PK.
All of them are economically strong cities with an economic strength of more than 2 trillion yuan, all of them are megacities with an urban population of more than 10 million, and they are all sub-provincial cities.
It's just that in terms of the status of the urbanization system, Wuhan is a higher level, and Wuhan is a national central city.
Before the black swan in 2020, Wuhan was ahead of Hangzhou and was the eighth economic city in Chinese mainland. In 2019, Wuhan's GDP was 1,690 billion yuan, and Hangzhou's was 1,537.3 billion yuan.
But the ensuing epidemic shut down Wuhan for three months, and the economy was seriously affected. In the first quarter of 2020, Wuhan fell out of the top 10 economies in the mainland.
At that time, data released by Wuhan showed that Wuhan's GDP growth rate in the first quarter was -405%, almost halved. Similarly, fiscal revenue and consumption of the whole society have also been cut in half. Among them, in the first quarter, the total revenue of Wuhan's general public budget was 5714.4 billion yuan, down 44 percent from the same period last year0%；In the first quarter, the total retail sales of consumer goods in Wuhan were 9947.4 billion yuan, down 45 percent from the same period last year7%, and fixed investment fell by 816%。
It was not until the lockdown was lifted on April 8 of that year that Wuhan started a full recovery mode.
The Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Central Bank, the Ministry of Science and Technology and other departments have joined the army to support Wuhan's recovery.
After that, Hubei Province opened the large-scale infrastructure construction model and issued the "Three-year Action Plan for the "Ten Major Projects" of Hubei Province to Revitalize and Strengthen Functions after the Epidemic (2020-2022)" to start the "Ten Major Projects" for post-epidemic revitalization.
The large infrastructure was launched, with a total investment of 23 trillion. In this context, Wuhan returned to the top 10 squad at the end of 2020 and ranked 9th.
In 2021, Wuhan's rapid recovery momentum will continue, and at the same time, it will continue to support Wuhan's economic recovery. In 2021, Wuhan was approved as a national pilot zone for the innovation and development of next-generation artificial intelligence in September.
However, due to the same good performance of Hangzhou's development momentum, at the end of 2021, although Wuhan ended with 12The 2% growth rate led the central city, but it still failed to surpass Hangzhou.
It was not until the end of 2022 that Wuhan returned to the 8th seat as it wished.
In 2023, Hangzhou will once again overtake Wuhan.
Wuhan and Hangzhou have their own characteristics.
Wuhan is strong in industry, and Hangzhou is strong in the service industry.
In 2023, the data of the secondary industry (generalized industry) in Wuhan will be 68009.1 billion yuan, and 566.7 billion yuan in Hangzhou. Wuhan is 1133 higher than Hangzhou9.1 billion yuan.
In the tertiary industry (generalized service industry), Wuhan will be 12,736 in 20233.6 billion yuan, Hangzhou is 1,404.5 billion yuan, Hangzhou is 1308 higher than Wuhan6.4 billion yuan.
That's where the gap lies.
But overall, Hangzhou's potential is greater. After all, Hangzhou's statement has been rising in recent years, and the limelight is on par with Guangzhou, and the Asian Games have increased Hangzhou's international popularity in a straight line.
In many individual indicators, Hangzhou not only crushed Wuhan and Chengdu, but also surpassed Guangzhou.
For example, there are 7 of the world's top 500 enterprises, second only to Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, ranking fourth in the country. It is higher than Guangzhou, and the number is several times that of Chengdu and Wuhan.
Data: Another example of Fortune magazine is Hangzhou's Internet digital economy, and Hangzhou can look down on the world.
In the past, Hangzhou has always been regarded as the capital of e-commerce, and its e-commerce industry is dominant**. In recent years, on the basis of the e-commerce industry, Hangzhou's digital economy industry has also been held high.
In 2021, the added value of the core industries of Hangzhou's digital economy was 490.5 billion yuan, accounting for 58% of the entire Zhejiang Province8%。In other words, more than half of the core industries of Zhejiang's digital economy are concentrated in Hangzhou.
*: Hangzhou Bureau of Statistics also ranks fourth in the country in terms of the number of listed companies, second only to Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen. As of the end of 2023, there are 228 domestic listed companies in Hangzhou. There are 73 more than Guangzhou, nearly twice as many as Chengdu, and Wuhan is not among the top 10 cities.
Another example is per capita disposable income.
Hangzhou's per capita disposable income was as high as 70,000 yuan at the end of 2022, ranking sixth in the country after Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, and Suzhou, and much higher than Wuhan and Chengdu.
Another example is the total amount of funds, which is second only to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. 7The balance of local and foreign currency deposits of financial institutions of 62 trillion yuan is twice that of Wuhan and 132 times.
Data: In terms of short-term goals, Hangzhou aims to surpass Chengdu and become China's second provincial capital. And in the long run, Hangzhou's goals are very ambitious.
At the beginning of this year, Hangzhou issued the "Implementation Opinions on Improving the Internationalization Level of the City and Striving to Build a World-class Socialist Modern International Metropolis", which put forward several grand goals:
First, by 2027, the GAWC World Cities List will rank among the top 60 and become an international city with high global influence, competitiveness and reputation.
Second, by 2030, Hangzhou's core competitiveness will be at the forefront of the first phalanx of cities in the country, and it will initially become a world famous city with outstanding characteristics and great influence.
Third, by 2035, China will basically build a world-class modern socialist international metropolis.
These goals are almost to compete with Guangzhou.
However, judging from the current world ranking of Hangzhou, it is more difficult to achieve the first goal.
In 2022, Hangzhou ranked 90th in the GAWC World City Rankings, and there is still a lot of pressure to rise 30 places to 60th in just a few years in 2027.
However, Hangzhou is currently frantically making up for shortcomings.
In 2022, Hangzhou will start to build five industrial ecosystems, namely intelligent IoT, biomedicine, high-end equipment, new materials, and green and low-carbon, promote the reengineering of the industrial base and the upgrading of the industrial chain, and accelerate the creation of the "iron pillars and steel beams" of the real economy.
Hangzhou's goals are:
By 2025, we will strive to achieve a scale of more than one trillion yuan in the ecosystem of intelligent IoT and high-end equipment, more than 500 billion yuan in the biomedical industry, and more than 300 billion yuan in the ecosystem of new materials and green and low-carbon industries, and promote the formation of a modern industrial system led by trillion-level industries, with 100-billion-level industries as the backbone and future industries as the forerunners.
Of course, Guangzhou, Chengdu, and Wuhan are not vegetarians, and they are all running as hard as they can.
is still the same sentence, the vastness of thousands of sails is the prosperous age, and the loneliness of a strong city is not spring.
Once solidified, the disparity in strength will become a pool of stagnant water without any ripples, without any sight and rush, just like the class solidification caused by the current high housing prices.