Sichuan

TL;DR

6.01T yuan GDP (2023); Chengdu 2.35T yuan (21M population); Chengdu-Chongqing targeting 10T+ yuan; ⅓ global laptops; 20%+ of China's batteries.

region in China

By Alex Denne

Sichuan's GDP reached 6.01 trillion yuan in 2023, with 5.7% growth in 2024 exceeding national average; targeting 5.5%+ for 2025. Chengdu's GDP hit 2.35 trillion yuan (2024), with population of 21 million (China's 4th most populous city). The Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle reached 9.7 trillion yuan GDP (2024), targeting 10+ trillion in 2025—up from 6.9 trillion (2019). Four trillion-yuan industrial clusters: electronic information, equipment manufacturing, advanced materials, specialty consumer goods. Laptop output accounts for ⅓ of global total. One in seven Chinese cars comes from Sichuan-Chongqing; the region produces 20%+ of national batteries. Chengdu's industries include automobiles, rail, aero-engines, aerospace, integrated circuits, new displays, AI. Future industries: AI, low-altitude economy, commercial aerospace, nuclear technologies. Sichuan targets significant infrastructure investment acceleration in 2025.

Locations in Sichuan

ChengduPop. 21.0MChina's inland tech capital — GDP of $325 billion, overtook Shenzhen in growth, now the semiconductor and defence hub for 400 million western Chinese.NanchongPop. 5.6M5,000 years of continuous silk production along the Jialing River — the longest industrial specialisation in any city on Earth, locked in by mulberry trees, silkworms, and accumulated expertise.LuzhouPop. 1.6MLuzhou's 1.61 million urban residents sit on a 452-year fermentation moat: 1,619 old pits plus 500,000 TEUs of river logistics keep baijiu scalable.NeijiangPop. 1.6MNeijiang turns 1.57 million urban residents and a Sweet City legacy into a rail-linked food-processing hub for drinks, tapioca, and corridor logistics.ZigongPop. 1.3MZigong turned a 1.26-million-person former salt city into a ¥6 billion lantern-export cluster, where inherited craft skills became a global event-manufacturing ecology.MeishanPop. 1.2MMeishan industrialized fermentation: 200 pickle firms and ¥22.5 billion in output give this Sichuan city one-third of China's market and exports to 100 countries.PanzhihuaPop. 1.2MPanzhihua holds 93% of China's titanium reserves and 63% of its vanadium reserves, turning a city of 1.223 million into a strategic materials bottleneck.ZiyangPop. 953KZiyang's 953,225 urban residents anchor China's biggest dental-device cluster, where 143 firms use orchid-style niche construction to turn one tooth into a city.Guang'AnPop. 858KGuang'an turned Deng Xiaoping's hometown into a ¥151.25 billion economy where private firms generate 56.5% of GDP by plugging into Chongqing's spillover.DeyangPop. 735KDeyang turns a 735,070-person city into a trusted heavy-equipment habitat, where modular production, network effects, and hard-won certifications keep giant energy projects flowing.GuangyuanPop. 516KGuangyuan turns 516,424 residents, ¥41.9 billion of green-aluminum output, and 58% of Sichuan's aluminum capacity into a recycling-led industrial mycelium.

Locations in Sichuan

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