List of Chinese counties by GDP

Mainland China has 31 provincial-level administrative divisions. Excluding the 4 municipalities, there are 27 provinces (including 4 autonomous regions). In 2024, a total of 132 counties (including county-level city and banner, the same below) in China had a GDP exceeding 10 billion US dollars, distributed across 19 provinces. Among them, the four coastal provinces with the most developed county economies - Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shandong, and Fujian - accounted for 82 such counties. The four central provinces of Hubei, Henan, Anhui, and Hunan had 24, while Sichuan, a western province, had 5. The remaining 10 provinces had a combined 21, and 8 provinces had no counties with a GDP exceeding 10 billion US dollars.

As of 2024, there are 63 counties in China with a GDP exceeding 100 billion yuan (US$14.042 billion). Among these high-economic-volume counties, Jiangsu Province leads with 22 entries, accounting for 34.9% of the total number. Zhejiang Province follows with 11 such counties, making up 17.5%. Shandong and Fujian each have 6 counties on the list, while Hunan and Henan each contribute 3. These figures reflect the uneven distribution of county-level economic strength in China, with the eastern coastal regions demonstrating prominent advantages in cultivating high-GDP county entities.

Jiangsu, the second-largest provincial economy in China, has 95 county-level administrative regions, including 40 counties (19 counties and 21 county-level cities). Of the 40 counties in the province, 32, or 80%, have a GDP exceeding US$10 billion, and Jiangsu accounts for 4 of the top 5 counties in terms of GDP. As of 2024, Zhejiang, the fourth-largest provincial economy in China, has a total of 53 counties. 23 of these counties achieved a GDP of over US$10 billion, among which 11 counties exceeded CN¥100 billion. Shandong, the third-largest provincial economy, administers 78 counties. 16 of its counties recorded a GDP of over US$10 billion, with 6 of them surpassing CN¥100 billion. Fujian, the eighth-largest provincial economy, has 53 counties. In 2024, 11 of its counties had a GDP exceeding US$10 billion, and 6 of them topped CN¥100 billion.

Guangdong, known as China's leading economic province (GDP US$1.99 trillion in 2024), has 122 county-level administrative divisions, including 57 counties. However, only 4 of them have a GDP exceeding 10 billion US dollars, as its economic center is entirely concentrated in the Pearl River Delta. Notably, none of the 63 counties in China with a GDP exceeding 100 billion Chinese yuan is from Guangdong, indicating that the development level of its county economy is far lower than people's expectations. In addition, the GDP per capita of all four of Guangdong's largest county-level economies even falls below the provincial average (US$15,607).