The comprehensive strength rankings, potential analysis and GDP statistics for the first half of the year based on the latest economic data, industrial layout, strategic position and development potential in 2025 are as follows.

2025 Provincial Capital/Capital Comprehensive Strength Ranking (1-27th Place)

1. Guangzhou

GDP: 1508.099 billion yuan, growth rate of 3.8%

Key advantages and positioning: The total economic volume is the first, the trade and logistics hub, but the industrial transformation is under pressure (industry growth rate above the scale is 0.7%)

2 Chengdu

GDP: 1210.821 billion yuan, growth rate of 5.8%

Key advantages and positioning: Southwest Science and Technology Innovation Center, dual engines of electronic information biomedicine, consumption growth rate of 6.0%

3 Hangzhou

GDP: 1130.272 billion yuan, growth rate of 5.5%

Key advantages and positioning: digital economy benchmark, private economy and e-commerce ecology are perfect, consumption growth by 6.1%

4. Wuhan

GDP: 1059.280 billion yuan, growth rate of 6.19%

Key advantages and positioning: the core of the central region rises, the output value of optoelectronics and new energy vehicle clusters both exceeds 500 billion, and the transformation of resources in colleges and universities accelerates

5. Nanjing

GDP: 917.918 billion yuan, growth rate of 5.3%

Key advantages and positioning: The growth rate of the financial industry is 12.3%, and the digital economy in Jiangbei New District has exceeded 80 billion, but manufacturing investment has slowed down

6 Changsha

GDP: 764.038 billion yuan, growth rate of 5.0%

Key advantages and positioning: surpassing Zhengzhou, driven by intelligent engineering machinery cultural and creative IP (Mango Ecology)

7. Zhengzhou

GDP: 732.930 billion yuan, growth rate of 5.2%

Key advantages and positioning: The status of transportation hubs is stable, but the decline in industrial products prices drags down nominal growth rate

8. Fuzhou

GDP: 655.613 billion yuan, growth rate of 7.1%

Key advantages and positioning: the biggest dark horse! Marine economy (Mawei Port throughput 18%) new energy (CATL industrial chain)

9 Hefei

GDP: 651.47 billion yuan, growth rate of 6.0%

Key advantages and positioning: Science and technology investment accounts for more than 3.5%, and is laid out in cutting-edge fields such as quantum information and fusion energy.

10. Xi'an

GDP: 648.00 billion yuan, growth rate of 6.0%

Key advantages and positioning: Industrial explosion (electrical machinery increase by 29.6%), China-Europe freight trains account for 1/4 of the country

11. Jinan

GDP: 598.00 billion yuan, growth rate of 6.5%

Key advantages and positioning: Industrial Internet new materials industry upgrade, surpassing Nantong to enter the top 20 in the country

12 Shenyang

GDP: 396.500 billion yuan, growth rate of 5.5%

Key advantages and positioning: Northeast revitalization fulcrum, high-end equipment manufacturing recovery, and localization reform of central enterprises

13. Kunming

GDP: 390.200 billion yuan, growth rate of 6.2%

Key advantages and positioning: Southeast Asia portal, tourism and big health industry has great potential

14. Changchun

GDP: 375.00 billion yuan, growth rate of 5.8%

Key advantages and positioning: transformation of the automobile industry (increasing production capacity of new energy vehicles), rapid growth of biomedicine

15. Harbin

00 million yuan, growth rate of 8.4%

Key advantages and positioning: a new high in growth rate in ten years! Trade with Russia ice and snow economy activates old industrial bases

16 Nanning

GDP: 268.00 billion yuan, growth rate of 5.6%

Key advantages and positioning: ASEAN cooperation hub, deepening of cross-border financial pilot

17. Shijiazhuang

GDP: 265.00 billion yuan, growth rate of 5.9%

Key advantages and positioning: Biomedical cluster (Shiyao, Yiling leader), benefiting from the coordinated benefits of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei

18. Nanchang

GDP; 260.00 billion yuan, growth rate of 5.7%

Key advantages and positioning: Global influence of VR industry, upgrade of aviation manufacturing (Hongdu Group)

19. Guiyang

GDP: 252.00 billion yuan, growth rate of 6.3%

Key advantages and positioning: Consolidation of the status of big data centers, the core node of "East and West Calculation"

20. Taiyuan

GDP: 248.00 billion yuan, growth rate of 5.4%

Key advantages and positioning: clean energy transformation, hydrogen energy industry chain layout

21. Urumqi

GDP: 230.00 billion yuan, growth rate of 6.8%

Key advantages and positioning: Central Asia's energy hub, free trade pilot zone policy dividend release

22. Hohhot

198.000 billion yuan, with a growth rate of 11.72%, with a growth rate of 2

Key advantages and positioning: dairy green silicon material drive

23. Lanzhou

GDP: 185.00 billion yuan, growth rate of 5.3%

Key advantages and positioning: Northwest Scientific Research Center (Lanzhou Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences), upgrading of new chemical materials

24. Haikou

GDP: 175.00 billion yuan, growth rate of 7.0%

Key advantages and positioning: policy advantages of the free trade port, tourism industry recovery duty-free consumption expansion

25. Yinchuan

GDP: 162.00 billion yuan, growth rate of 6.5%

Key advantages and positioning: new materials (mono-crystalline silicon) wine industry, green transformation sample

26. Xining

GDP: 148.00 billion yuan, growth rate of 6.2%

Key advantages and positioning: photovoltaic module manufacturing base, ecological economic hub of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

27. Lhasa

GDP: 68.00 billion yuan, growth rate of 20.07%, the highest growth rate in the country

Key advantages and positioning: clean energy (photovoltaic) characteristic tourism, with obvious policy tilt

In-depth analysis of strength and potential

First Echelon (1-5): Outstanding comprehensive advantages, but the pressure of transformation coexist

Guangzhou: The total economic volume is absolutely leading, but the industrial transformation is lagging behind (the industrial growth rate above the scale is only 0.7%), and it is necessary to break through from a "trade center" to a "intelligent manufacturing hub".

Chengdu: Driven by the Chengdu-Chongqing dual core, the demographic dividend (permanent population exceeds 21 million) has formed dual support with emerging industries (aerospace, digital economy), and its potential is firmly at the top of the list.

Wuhan: College resources (92 institutes) Optics Valley Industrial Cluster (25% of the global fiber output) promotes the transformation of "hard technology", but we need to be wary of homogeneous competition in central cities.

Second Echelon (6-15): The pattern is reshuffled, dark horses appear frequently

Fuzhou: The greatest potential! Relying on the CATL's sodium ion battery project, the 50 billion industrial chain is driven by the CATL's sodium ion battery project, RCEP is accelerating the port economy and is expected to enter the top five provincial capitals in 2025.

Xi'an: The growth rate of industrial added value is 12.4% (third in the country), semiconductor aerospace clusters are formed, and the advantages of the "Belt and Road" nodes cannot be replicated.

Harbin: Digital transformation of trade with Russia equipment manufacturing (Harbin Electric Group overseas order 47%), a key breakthrough in the revitalization of Northeast China.

Third Echelon (16-27): Driven by characteristic industries, dominant policy dividends

Lhasa: Central fiscal transfer payments western development policies have been tilted, clean energy installed capacity has doubled in five years, and the sustainability of growth rate depends on the policy to continue.

Urumqi: Central Asia Energy Channel Free Trade Pilot Zone Policy, oil and gas processing and cross-border logistics have great potential.

Hohhot: Dairy (Yili, Mengniu) and silicon materials (upstream photovoltaics), with a growth rate of 11.72% confirming the effectiveness of the transformation.

The top 5 cities with future potential

1. Fuzhou: