Anhui

TL;DR

#1 nationally in car/NEV production (2025); Hefei 1.37M NEVs (2024); 6 vehicle manufacturers; Chery 22 years #1 export brand; targeting 3M vehicles/year by 2027.

region in China

By Alex Denne

Anhui transformed into China's EV manufacturing powerhouse, with Hefei producing over 1.37 million NEVs in 2024 (value: 260 billion yuan). In January-May 2025, Anhui ranked #1 nationally in both total car and NEV production. BYD's Xiangtan base alone produces 950,000+ vehicles annually. The province hosts six complete vehicle manufacturers—JAC, BYD, NIO, Volkswagen, Changan, and Ankai—with Volkswagen calling Hefei its 'headquarters for the smart electric vehicle era.' Hefei's GDP exceeds 1 trillion yuan with population approaching 10 million. By 2027, the NEV cluster targets 1 trillion yuan revenue and 3 million vehicles annually. Chery leads China's independent brand exports for 22 consecutive years (1.14 million units in 2024, 24.8% of national total). This former eastern backwater reinvented itself through strategic government investment in emerging technologies—a deliberate metabolic transformation.

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SuzhouPop. 5.3MA 5.3-million-person coal and wheat city in Anhui province that bet on cloud computing in 2011 — now hosting 465 tech enterprises, a quantum communication node, and Huawei data infrastructure.HefeiPop. 5.0MA government that operates as a venture capital fund—300% returns on display tech, an $800M rescue of NIO that profited in 18 months. Hefei vaulted from China's 80th to 20th largest GDP in twenty years by betting on quantum computing and EVs.BozhouPop. 4.9MWorld's largest TCM herb market handles ¥185 billion annually from a city that has traded medicinal plants for 1,800 years — living fossil economics.Lu'AnPop. 4.4MA 4.4-million-person Dabie Mountain city whose six reservoirs supply Hefei's drinking water — creating a development trap where ecological preservation constrains industrial growth.ChuzhouPop. 4.1MChuzhou turns Nanjing spillover into scale: a 4.056 million-person bridge city where cheaper land and delta logistics compound into durable manufacturing gravity.WuhuPop. 3.6MA declining Yangtze textile city that created China's top car exporter from scratch — eight engineers in a brick factory, a used Ford production line, and municipal government as founder.XuanchengPop. 2.5MA 2.49 million-person Yangtze Delta city turning UNESCO paper heritage into ¥10 billion-plus e-commerce and tourism infrastructure, showing authenticity can scale without going generic.HuainanPop. 1.7MAnhui's coal capital holds 13 billion tonnes of reserves that built modern China—now floating solar farms on subsided mine lakes test whether state-planned diversification can outrun resource decline.Huangshan CityPop. 1.3MHuangshan's prefecture-level city holds 1.317 million residents, while 4.92 million scenic-area entries helped turn one mountain brand into a ¥113.4 billion municipal economy.TonglingPop. 1.3MTongling turns 1.302 million residents and a ¥145.53 billion copper champion into a new-materials web built on industrial path dependence.HuaibeiPop. 1.1MCarved from farmland in 1960 solely for coal extraction—Huaibei now faces the terminal phase of resource urbanism as depleted mines leave 900,000 residents searching for economic purpose in post-coal China.AnqingPop. 804KAnqing uses bridges, rail, and Yangtze shipping to turn an 804,493-person inland city into a manufacturing habitat plugged into downstream markets.

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