Source China Business Handbook - 1997 figures | |||||
Province | Capital | Population (millions) |
GDP (US$ billions) |
GDP/cap (US$) |
Wealth - Main Exports, Businesses & Markets |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
ANHUI | Hefei | 61.3 | 32.17 | 525 | rapeseed, sesame, tea, freshwater fish |
BEIJING | Beijing | 12.4 | 21.81 | 1,759 | soft drinks, food, iron&steel, petrochemicals |
CHONGQING | Chongqing | 30.4 | 16.27 | 535 | tung-oil seed, tubers, steel, motorcycles |
FUJIAN | Fuzhou | 32.8 | 36.15 | 1,101 | tea, citrus fruits, bananas, rubber, sugarcane, pine resin, canned food |
GANSU | Lanzhou | 24.9 | 9.41 | 377 | nickel, platinum, magnesium, alumina, palladium, copper, cobalt, chromium, zinc, oil |
GUANGDONG | Guangzhou | 70.5 | 88.14 | 1,250 | lychees, fish farming, prawns, shellfish, zircon, silicon, offshore oil reserves, textiles, garments, food processing, electrical appliances, toys, shoes |
GUANGXI | Nanning | 46.3 | 24.28 | 524 | sugar, timber, aluminum, tin, manganese, building materials, machinery, paper, coal, iron&steel |
GUIZHOU | Guiyang | 36.1 | 9.55 | 264 | gold,bauxite,mercury, silica, & optical crystals deposits, tobacco, coal,ferro-alloys, tung-oil seed, lacquer |
HAINAN | Haikou | 7.4 | 4.94 | 665 | oil and tropical crops |
HEBEI | Shijiazhuang | 65.3 | 47.64 | 730 | coal, petroleum, iron, coke, pig iron, antibiotics, pesticides |
HEILONGJIANG | Harbin | 37.5 | 32.63 | 870 | timber, oil, natural gas, soybeans, milk, beetroot |
HENAN | Zhengzhou | 92.4 | 49.15 | 532 | wheat, beef, aluminum, gold, coal, petrochemicals |
HUBEI | Wuhan | 58.7 | 41.57 | 708 | rapeseed, sesame, freshwater fish, cotton, jute, yarn, edible vegetable oil,trucks, sulphuric acid |
HUNAN | Changsha | 64.6 | 36.06 | 558 | rice,pork, cigarettes, rapeseed, citrus fruits, machinery, garments |
INNER MONGOLIA | Hohhot | 23.3 | 13.19 | 567 | wool, cashmere, milk, rare earth, timber coal |
JIANGSU | Nanjing | 71.5 | 80.49 | 1,126 | chemicals, textiles, motors, freshwater seafood |
JIANGXI | Nanchang | 41.5 | 20.66 | 498 | aircraft, arms, trucks, ceramics, rice |
JILIN | Changchun | 26.3 | 17.43 | 663 | grains, corn, ginseng, chemicals, automobiles |
LIAONING | Shenyang | 41.4 | 42.05 | 1,016 | metallurgy, precision machine tools, steel, plate glass, alternators, seafood, beef, poultry,beer, coke |
NINGXIA | Yinchuan | 5.3 | 2.54 | 479 | coal, oil, chemicals, metallurgy, machinery, textiles |
QINGHAI | Xining | 5 | 2.43 | 490 | salt-lake minerals, potash fertilizer, oil extraction, bee products |
SHAANXI | Xian | 35.7 | 15.98 | 448 | aircraft, electronics, cashmere, apples, walnuts, milk |
SHANDONG | Jinan | 87.8 | 80.12 | 912 | gold, oil, diamonds, copper, gypsum,peanuts, apples, eggs, goat wool, aquatic products,wine |
SHANGHAI | Shanghai | 14.6 | 40.48 | 2,778 | commercial and financial services, cars, petrochemicals, large-scale machinery, electronics, iron&steel |
SHANXI | Taiyuan | 31.4 | 17.83 | 568 | coal, calcium carbide |
SICHUAN | Chengdu | 84.3 | 40 | 474 | pork, leather, rapeseed, coccoons, lacquer, tuber crop, industrial commodities, spirits |
TIANJIN | Tianjin | 9.5 | 14.94 | 1,568 | electronics, petrochemicals, metallurgy, automobiles |
TIBET | Lhasa | 2.5 | .93 | 375 | cashmere, tourism |
XINJIANG | Urumqi | 17.2 | 12.65 | 736 | cotton, hops, grapes, mutton, leather goods, paper, rugs, jade oil, sugar |
YUNNAN | Kunming | 40.9 | 19.81 | 484 | tobacco, coffee, sugarcane, rubber, bananas |
ZHEJIANG | Hangzhou | 44.4 | 55.88 | 1,260 | rice,fish, silk, tea, pharmaceuticals, metal-cutting machines, chemical and synthetic fibres, cloth, woolen goods, paperboard, electric fans, swing machines, televisions pesticides, tyres |
HONG KONG | Hong Kong | 6.7 | 122 | 18,209 | Banking, real estate, insurance, shipping, offshore trading companies, tourism |
MACAU | Macau | .422 | 7.33 | 17,374 | Textiles & garments, finance and property, gambling tourism |