GDP figures for 21 cities in China's Guangdong Province released...Shenzhen takes the top spot - Chinese media

Economic data for 2024 from 21 cities in Guangdong Province, China, has been released. In 2024, the gross domestic product (GDP) of the entire Guangdong province is expected to reach a new milestone of 14 trillion 1633 billion yen, up 3.5% from the previous year.
Guangdong Province has maintained its position as the top province in the country for 36 consecutive years, but its growth rate in 2024 was lower than the national growth rate (5%).
Looking at the GDP of the 21 cities in Guangdong Province, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Foshan, Dongguan, and Huizhou are in the top five.
Thanks to impressive achievements in areas such as industry and trade, Shenzhen, Dongguan and Huizhou ranked as the top three in terms of year-on-year growth, with Shenzhen topping the province with a 5.8% year-on-year increase.
The added value of industries of a certain size or larger increased by 9.7%, and exports and imports increased by 16.4%. Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Foshan, and Dongguan were the four cities that became trillion-unit cities in Guangdong Province. Shenzhen's GDP was 5.
China saw an 8% increase to 3,680,187 million formers (approximately JPY 76.6 trillion), Guangzhou saw a 2.1% increase to 3,103,250 million formers (approximately JPY 64.6 trillion), and Foshan saw a 1.3% increase to 1,336,100 million formers (approximately JPY 59.2 trillion).
90 million former (about 27.8 trillion yen), and Dongguan increased 4.6% to 1,228.215 billion former (about 25.6 trillion yen).
In addition, Huizhou, ranked fifth, exceeded the 600 billion former mark for the first time. Huizhou's GDP increased 4.2% to 61
The total was 3.639 billion former (approximately 12.8 trillion yen).