Official announcement! The 10th megacity was born and is coming

Mondo Social Updated on 2024-02-01

Official announcement! The 10th megacity was born and is coming

Among the major cities, there are three groups of the most attractive cities competing for PC: Beijing and Shanghai in one group, Guangzhou and Chongqing in one group, and Wuhan and Hangzhou in one.

In recent years, these two groups of cities have taken turns to lead the way. In mid-2022, Beijing briefly overtook Shanghai, and was overtaken by Shanghai again at the end of the year.

In 2017, Chongqing surpassed Guangzhou for the first time, in 2019, in 2022, and again in 2023.

There was also a brief alternation between Wuhan and Hangzhou.

In 2023, Hangzhou will surpass Wuhan to become the eighth economic city in the country. However, the distance between Hangzhou and Wuhan is still very close, and they are still the group that loves each other the most.

According to the Hangzhou Municipal Bureau of Statistics:

In 2023, GDP will increase to 2 trillion to 2,059 billion, with a real growth rate of 56%。

*: Hangzhou Publishing House.

Released by Wuhan Municipal Bureau of Statistics:

The GDP in 2023 is 2016.5 billion, with a real growth rate of 57%。

Hangzhou's GDP narrowly surpassed Wuhan's, once again becoming the eighth economic city in the mainland.

Source**: Municipal Bureau of Statistics.

At the same time, Hangzhou was officially promoted to a megacity.

According to a press release from Hangzhou, by the end of 2023, the population of Hangzhou's urban area will exceed 10 million, reaching 1,00210,000 people, making it one of the 10 megacities in the country.

*: Hangzhou Publishing House.

Officially, cities are classified only according to the permanent population of urban areas:

Cities with a permanent urban population of 10 million or more are considered 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 Class I large cities;

Cities with more than 1 million and less than 3 million are large second-class cities;

Cities with a population of more than 500,000 but less than 1 million are considered medium-sized cities;

Cities with more than 200,000 and less than 500,000 are classified as Class I small cities;

Cities with a population of less than 200,000 are classified as Class II small cities.

Against this backdrop, the National Bureau of Statistics published the list of megacities and megacities for 2020.

In 2020, there will be 7 megacities, namely Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Chengdu and Tianjin. There are 14 megacities: Wuhan, Dongguan, Xi'an, Hangzhou, Foshan, Nanjing, Shenyang, Qingdao, Jinan, Changsha, Harbin, Zhengzhou, Kunming and Dalian.

Source**: National Bureau of Statistics.

But this is old data from 2020. A lot has changed in the last three years.

On the one hand, during the 2020 census, due to the impact of the epidemic, the population of the seventh census in Wuhan was seriously distorted against the background of a large number of people fleeing Wuhan. Later, as the epidemic was brought under control and the ban in Wuhan was lifted, the population began to return.

According to official data from Wuhan, the city's permanent population increased by 121 in 2021220,000 people. This is the result of the return of the population. After the population returns, Wuhan's urban population is expected to exceed 10 million, and Wuhan will add another 9010,000 people.

Wuhan has positioned itself as a megacity in multiple public documents.

Last year, Suzhou due to the update of the classification of industrial parks**, from the original"121 "The central area of the city was changed to"111 "In the central area of the city, more than 1 million people in industrial parks have become permanent residents of the city.

At that time, an official press release from Suzhou was issued:

According to the adjusted statistical caliber, according to the permanent population data released by the seventh national population census in 2020, the permanent resident population of Suzhou urban area is 512510,000 people.

Shijiazhuang officially announced in September last year that the city's population exceeded 5 million, and now it has reached 5.4 million, which is also among the highest.

*: Shijiazhuang Publishing House.

Subsequently, Dongguan, which is adjacent to the megacity, also made a breakthrough. Now, Hangzhou has finally officially announced.

So far. There are 10 megacities in China.

With Hangzhou's promotion to megacity, the two cities are basically at the same PK level.

All of them are economically strong cities with a total economic volume of more than 2 trillion yuan, they are all 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 cut above it, and Wuhan is a national central city.

Before the black swan of 2020, Wuhan led Hangzhou to become the eighth largest city in Chinese mainland in terms of economy. In 2019, Wuhan's GDP was 1,690 billion yuan, Hangzhou's was 1,537.3 billion yuan, and if there is no black swan, Wuhan is expected to surpass Chengdu.

But the ensuing pandemic shut down Wuhan for three months, severely affecting the economy. In the first quarter of 2020, Wuhan ceased to be one of the top 10 economies on the continent.

At that time, data released by Wuhan showed that Wuhan's GDP growth rate in the first quarter was -405%, almost halved. There is taxation and consumption of the whole society. Among them, in the first quarter, the total revenue of Wuhan's ** general 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 457%, fixed investment fell 816%。

It wasn't until April 8 of this year that Wuhan went into full recovery mode.

After the opening of the port, Wuhan's economic recovery and construction have also received support from all parties. 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 jointly support Wuhan's economic recovery.

After that, Hubei Province opened a major infrastructure model and launched the "Hubei Province Post-epidemic Supplement Weak Board Strong Function"."Top 10 projects"Three-year action plan (2020-2022)" to start the post-epidemic shortcomings and strengthen the function"Top 10 projects"。

Major infrastructure construction has been launched, with a total investment of 2.3 billion. Against this backdrop, Wuhan will return to the top 10 at the end of 2020, ranking 9th.

In 2021, the momentum of Wuhan's rapid recovery continued as *** continued to increase its support for Wuhan's economic recovery. In September 2021, Wuhan was approved as a National Pilot Zone for the Innovation and Development of Next-Generation Artificial Intelligence.

However, as Hangzhou's performance was equally eye-catching, despite Wuhan winning with 12The 2% growth led the central city, but it still failed to overtake Hangzhou at the end of 2021.

It wasn't until the end of 2022 that Wuhan returned to eighth place.

In 2023, Hangzhou will once again surpass Wuhan.

Wuhan and Hangzhou have their own characteristics.

Wuhan is known for its industry, and Hangzhou is known for its service industry.

In 2023, Wuhan's secondary industry (general industry) is 6809100 million yuan, and 566.7 billion yuan in Hangzhou. Wuhan is 1133 more than Hangzhou$9.1 billion.

In terms of the tertiary industry (general service industry), Wuhan will have 1273 more than Wuhan in 20233.6 billion yuan, Hangzhou will be 1404 more than Wuhan500 million yuan, Hangzhou will be 1308 more than Wuhan$6.4 billion.

You can see the difference.

But overall, Hangzhou has more potential. After all, the popularity of Hangzhou's declaration has been increasing in recent years, comparable to Guangzhou, and the Asian Games have also enhanced Hangzhou's international popularity.

In many individual indicators, Hangzhou not only crushed Wuhan and Chengdu, but also surpassed Guangzhou.

For example, in terms of the number of Fortune 500 companies, Hangzhou has seven, ranking fourth in the country after Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen.

Data: Fortune magazine.

For another example, in the era of Internet digital economy, Hangzhou seems out of place.

Hangzhou has always been considered the capital of e-commerce in the past, and its e-commerce industry is at a leading position. Over the years, on the basis of the e-commerce industry, Hangzhou's digital economy industry has also been among the best.

In 2021, the added value of the main industries of Hangzhou's digital economy will reach 490.5 billion yuan, accounting for 58% of the whole province8%。In other words, more than half of the major industries of Zhejiang's digital economy are concentrated in Hangzhou.

Source**: Hangzhou Municipal Bureau of Statistics.

In terms of the number of listed companies, Hangzhou also ranks fourth in the country, behind Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen. By the end of 2023, there were 228 domestically listed companies in Hangzhou. That's 73 more than Guangzhou and almost double that of Chengdu, while Wuhan doesn't make it into the top 10.

Then there is the per capita disposable income.

By the end of 2022, Hangzhou's per capita disposable income will reach 70,000 yuan, second only to Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, and Jiangsu, ranking sixth in the country, much higher than Wuhan and Chengdu.

Then there is the total amount of funds, which is second only to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. In the middle of last year, the balance of domestic and foreign currency deposits of financial institutions was 762 trillion yuan, which is 2 times that of Wuhan and 132 times.

Data: Municipal Bureau of Statistics.

In terms of short-term goals, Hangzhou aims to overtake Chengdu as China's second provincial capital. In the long run, Hangzhou's goals are very ambitious.

This puts forward several grand goals in the "Implementation Opinions on Improving the Internationalization Level of the City and Striving to Build a World-class Socialist Modern International Metropolis" issued by Hangzhou at the beginning of this year:

First, by 2027, the GAWC World Cities List will be ranked in the top 60, becoming an international city with high influence, competitiveness and reputation in the world.

Second, by 2030, Hangzhou's urban competitiveness will be at the forefront of the first phalanx of Chinese cities, and it will initially be built into a world famous city with distinctive characteristics and great influence.

Third, by 2035, China will basically build itself into a modern socialist international metropolis.

These goals are very close to making it clear that they want to compete with Guangzhou.

However, judging from Hangzhou's current world ranking, it is 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 climb 30 places to 60th in just a few years, in 2027.

However, Hangzhou is currently setting off a wave of making up for shortcomings.

By 2022, Hangzhou will start the construction of five smart industry ecosystems, including the Internet of Things, biomedicine, high-end equipment, new materials, and low-carbon ecology, to promote the modernization of the industrial base and industrial chain, and accelerate the construction of the real economy"Iron pillars and steel beams"。

Hangzhou is the target:

By 2025, we will strive to achieve a scale of more than 1 trillion yuan in the ecosystem of intelligent Internet of Things and high-end equipment industry, more than 500 billion yuan in the biomedical industry ecosystem, and more than 300 billion yuan in the new material industry ecosystem and low-carbon green industry, so as to promote the formation of a modern industrial system with trillion-level industries as the leader, 100-billion-level industries as the backbone, and future industries as the guide.

Of course, Guangzhou, Chengdu and Wuhan are not vegetarians, they are all running desperately.

However, the vastness of thousands of sails is the pinnacle, and the loneliness of a city alone is not spring.

Once the disparity in power is solidified, it will become a pool of stagnant water, which will not make waves, and will not look at or run, just like the class solidification caused by the current high housing prices.

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