25 counties or county-level cities from east China's Jiangsu province were included in the country's annual list of top 100 counties and county-level cities in comprehensive strength, accounting for one fourth of the national total.
Kunshan, Jiangyin, Zhangjiagang, Changshu, Taicang and Yixing ranked among the county-level cities in comprehensive strength.
For 18 consecutive years, Kunshan ranked first among the top 100 counties and county-level cities in China by placing the first in terms of comprehensive strength, green development, investment potential, scientific and technological innovation, and new urbanization quality.
Kunshan has become the only county-level city that reported an annual GDP of more than 400 billion yuan with its general public budget revenue exceeding 40 billion yuan, and gross industrial output value above designated size exceeding 1 trillion yuan.
Kunshan's economy generated a GDP value of 474.8 billion yuan in 2021, making it first among the country's top 100 county-level economies for 18 consecutive years.
Kunshan's population of over 2 million, including a high proportion of permanent urban residents, propelled the city into the ranks of large cities, the National Bureau of Statistics reported, based on the Seventh National Population Census released in 2021.
The comprehensive strength index system is based on the implementation of new development concepts and high-quality requirements, combined with the development characteristics of small and medium-sized cities in the new era, and evaluated from the perspective of modern economic development, improvement of people's livelihood, ecological environment construction, urban-rural integration development, innovation driven leadership and social governance optimization.
