In recent years, with the continuous adjustment of my country's economic structure, the economic growth model has also been continuously optimized, and cooperation between regions has become closer, and integrated high-quality development has become a new trend.
Fujian Province is located in the southeast coastal area of my country. It is a base and comprehensive transportation hub of my country's advanced manufacturing industry. It is also an important experimental zone and window for my country's opening up to the outside world.
Fujian has a total area of 124,000 square kilometers, and it has 9 prefecture-level cities under its jurisdiction, a total of 42 counties, 11 county-level cities, and 31 districts, with a permanent population of 41.54 million.
In 2021, Fujian achieved a regional GDP of 4881 billion yuan, and the per capita GDP of was 117,000 yuan. The total economic output ranks 8th in the country and 4th in the per capita, second only to Beijing, Shanghai and Jiangsu.
Overall, as a coastal province, Fujian has continued to accelerate its economic development in recent years, and its economic development level has also improved significantly, especially after 's seventh national census , per capita GDP surpassed Zhejiang. However, from the perspective of the comprehensive economic strength of the province, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Shandong and Zhejiang are still ahead of Fujian, and the overall economic development level of Guangdong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang are better than Fujian.
With the full opening of the "14th Five-Year Plan", Fujian will continue to deepen reform and innovation and actively promote industrial transformation and upgrading. Both the total economic volume and the quality of economic development have achieved a "new leap". In the future, Fujian will give full play to the advantages of Haixi Economic Zone , and the economy will be faster. The rapid development of the economy has accelerated the urbanization process, laid the foundation for the aggregation of urban industries, population, commerce, consumption and other factors, and further promoted the continuous expansion of urban scale, which has effectively promoted the improvement of urban comprehensive economic strength and urban competitiveness. According to the overall planning of Fujian's land space and the development of each city, three megacities will be supported in the next 5-15 years. Let's take a look at which cities will be upgraded.
supports two cities to upgrade from I-type cities to megacities: Fuzhou, Xiamen
According to the plan, Fujian will support Fuzhou and Xiamen to upgrade from megacities (the urban population is 5 million to 10 million). Judging from the current urban construction situation, Fuzhou and Xiamen are still type I-type cities (the urban population is 3 million to 5 million). In addition, Fuzhou will strive to become a national central city in , and Xiamen will also strive to become a national central city, but focus on moving towards a global marine central city.
Fuzhou
From the population perspective, among the above two cities, Fuzhou's permanent population has reached 8.32 million, ranking second in the province, second only to Quanzhou . The continuous expansion of the population size provides a population hinterland for the construction of megacities. In the future, as long as Fuzhou strengthens urban construction and improves urban functions, it is only a matter of time before it can be built into megacities.
Xiamen's permanent population is 5.18 million, ranking third in the province. If we are in Xiamen's permanent population, there are still some difficulties in building a megacity with an urban population of more than 5 million.
However, as a special economic zone and sub-provincial city in my country, Xiamen has a high urban status. In addition, Xiamen has been fully districted, and the urbanization rate has reached 89.41%, which is only a step away from megacities.
Xiamen
Economic perspective , Fuzhou and Xiamen are the two core cities that Fujian focuses on building, and are also the central cities of the Fuzhou metropolitan area and the Xiamen-Zhangzhou-Quanquan metropolitan area. In 2021, Fuzhou achieved a regional GDP of 1132.45 billion yuan and successfully advanced to the trillion-dollar city club.
Xiamen achieved a regional GDP of 703.39 billion yuan, ranking third in the province, second only to Fuzhou and Quanzhou. Its economic development is comparable to Fuzhou, and even slightly better than Fuzhou.
In the next few years, Fuzhou will focus on developing three leading industries: electronic information, new chemical materials, and textile chemical fiber, and actively cultivate four emerging industries such as software information, new energy, high-end equipment, and biomedicine .
Xiamen will focus on developing industries such as semiconductors and integrated circuits, flat panel displays, computers and communication equipment, mechanical equipment, new materials, biomedicine, energy conservation and environmental protection.
The above two cities will be easier to advance to megacities in the future.
Quanzhou
supports 1 city from a type II big city to a megacity: Quanzhou
According to the actual development of Fujian and the urban positioning of urban development, many people believe that Fujian may only have two megacities, namely Fuzhou and Xiamen. However, according to Quanzhou's new urbanization plan, it will be built into a megacity in the next 5-15 years, with an urban population exceeding 5 million.
It is worth mentioning that Quanzhou mentioned that the urban population exceeds 5 million, but according to my country's urban level, the urban population must reach 5 million, and the urban population is obviously smaller than the urban population.
Although Quanzhou has a permanent population of 8.79 million, it is the largest city in Fujian, Quanzhou has only 4 districts, and the overall scale of the urban area is not very large. If calculated based on the urban population, it is less than 2 million.
With the current population of Quanzhou, the construction of a megacity city will be very stressed in the next few years. Even if it doubles, it will not be able to meet the standards of megacity cities. Therefore, the editor believes that since Quanzhou proposed to build a megacity, it is also an expectation and confidence in Quanzhou's future development, and it also means that Quanzhou's economy will have a great development. In addition, Quanzhou is likely to take some action in zoning adjustments, such as Jinjiang demarcation.
From an economic perspective, Quanzhou achieved a regional GDP of 1130.42 billion yuan in 2021, successfully advancing to the trillion-dollar city club. However, with the rise of Fuzhou, Quanzhou's total economic output has been overtaken. Entering a new stage of development, Quanzhou's economy is expected to achieve leapfrog development and there is a complete opportunity to build a megacity.
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