GDP of 31 provinces in Q1 has reported strong momentum in central provinces

Reporters from the Peng Mei News (www.thepaper.cn) recently sorted out the GDP data of 31 provinces in the first quarter of 2019.

Xinjiang is the last province to publish GDP data in the first quarter of 2019. According to the data released on the official website of the National Bureau of Statistics, Xinjiang's GDP in the first quarter of 2019 was 217.769 billion yuan, an increase of 5.3% over the same period last year. From the GDP data of 31 provinces, Guangdong achieved a GDP of 2388.677 billion yuan in the first quarter, the first in the whole country; five provinces with GDP exceeding trillion yuan in the first quarter were Guangdong, Jiangsu (2288.38 billion yuan), Shandong (2017.74 billion yuan), Zhejiang (13.84 billion yuan) and Henan (116.39 billion yuan).

In the first quarter, 13 provinces with GDP exceeding 700 billion yuan, including Sichuan (965.32 billion yuan), Hubei (911.105 billion yuan), Hunan (833.397 billion yuan), Shanghai (830.828 billion yuan), Hebei (816.44 billion yuan), Fujian (814.524 billion yuan), Beijing (740.06 billion yuan) and Anhui (706.57 billion yuan). Of the 13 provinces, there are 7 in the east, 4 in the middle and 1 in the west. From the published GDP growth rate, Yunnan's GDP growth rate in the first quarter was the first in the country, 9.7%. The top three growth rates were all in the western provinces. In the first quarter, there were 17 provinces whose GDP growth rate exceeded 6.4% of the national data, of which 6 provinces in the central region exceeded the national data, while 6 provinces in the western region and 5 provinces in the eastern region exceeded the national GDP growth rate. The 17 provinces are Yunnan, Guizhou (9.2%), Tibet (9.1%), Jiangxi (8.6%), Fujian (8.2%), Hubei (8.1%), Henan (7.9%), Ningxia (7.9%), Gansu (7.9%), Sichuan (7.8%), Zhejiang (7.7%), Anhui (7.7%), Hunan (7.6%), Hebei (7.4%), Shanxi (7.2%), Jiangsu (6.7%) and Guangdong (6.6%). The growth rate of GDP in Beijing and Guangxi in the first quarter was the same as that in the whole country. Among the 11 provinces whose GDP growth rate is lower than the national average, Tianjin has reversed its growth rate to the bottom of the national situation, with a growth rate of 4.5% in the first quarter, ranking second to last. Jilin had the lowest GDP growth in the first quarter of 31 provinces, with 2.4%.