China recently released its 7th census data, and some Chinese experts analyzed the data and pointed out that the GDP per capita of first-tier star cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen were all lower than Taiwan’s, which made Chinese online media dumbfounded and exclaimed, “This is obviously unacceptable to us”.
Comprehensive Chinese media reports, often for China’s economic situation analysis of the well-known financial blogger “Ning Nanshan”, his article has been quoted by Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hua Chunying, and he also recently released the official Chinese “seventh national census” figures on the 21st The article points out that the GDP per capita in 2020 of four first-tier cities in China, Beijing (about US$23,910), Shanghai (about US$22,560), Guangzhou (about US$19,400) and Shenzhen (US$22,846), will be lower than that of Taiwan (about US$28,383).
The article points out that there are many other well-developed second-tier cities in China with per capita GDP not inferior to first-tier cities, but neither Wuxi, Nanjing, Suzhou, Zhuhai, Hangzhou, Ningbo, nor Changzhou can surpass Taiwan, which is “more or less unsatisfactory. After more than 40 years of growth since our reform and opening up, it is surprising that no city has a per capita GDP higher than Taiwan, which is obviously We can’t accept that”.
According to the article, the cities of Shenzhen, Wuxi and Suzhou, which had been considered to have surpassed Taiwan in terms of GDP per capita in the past, were all again surpassed by Taiwan in terms of GDP per capita after the seventh census due to a huge increase in population. “This year, due to Taiwan’s semiconductor exports burst single, electronic products exports are also very hot, the economic growth rate is also very fast, is expected to exceed 5%, the annual per capita is likely to exceed 30,000 U.S. dollars”.
“Ning Nanshan” that even so, “the distance between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait is still getting closer”, he said Wuxi, Suzhou, Beijing, Nanjing, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Changzhou is expected to surpass Taiwan in 2023-2025; Zhuhai, Wuhan, Ningbo, Xiamen, Changsha and other cities will also surpass Taiwan in 2025 to 2030.
The article spread to the PTT so that Taiwan’s netizens laughed, leaving comments such as “So their first-tier cities have not yet surpassed Oh”, “Poor Chinese people,” and “No, you XiBaozi is not very fond of spreading money and pretending to be rich? ” The Chinese people are very poor. The goal should be placed in the United States and Japan, such as it”, “more real than the hanging tail, a bunch of remote villages in China live almost like African refugees, such bird countries still want to call”, “Shanghai’s population is about the same as Taiwan, the total GDP is also losing A “.
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