It has long been a transportation hub, because it is in the middle of the long navigable part of the Yangtze River between Shanghai and Chongqing. It once felt less modernized than China's coastal cities, but it is now one of China's main high-tech, education, and financial centers.
Wuhan is an interesting large city, plum in the center of the heavily-populated half of China. 2018 GDP: 1.5 trillion yuan (213 billion USD).It is also home to impressive aspects of Chinese history, being briefly the capital of Manchu-led China and Japanese-occupied China, with its own imperial palace. It is known for its status as a leading industrial, commerce, and trade city. It is another city that has grown rapidly in the last 5 years to make the largest 10. Shenyang is the capital of the northeastern province of Liaoning, and the largest city in northeast China by urban population. 2018 GDP: 0.62 trillion yuan (88 billion USD).Tourism is virtually unheard-of there, apart from for those returning to their roots. Over a million overseas Chinese and residents of Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan came from Dongguan. It's the poorest of China's large cities, dominated by low-wage-earning migrant factory workers. It employs huge numbers of rural factory workers, producing electronic items and other hardware, like computer peripherals. It has also grown phenomenally in the last couple of decades. 2018 GDP: 0.8 trillion yuan (113 billion USD)ĭongguan is a little-known but huge manufacturing city, between Guangzhou and Shenzhen, ranked fourth in China for exports.Recommended tour: 12-Day Yangtze River Cruise and Panda Family Tour.( Hong Kong has a greater population density, over twice Chongqing's, once again forced up my mountainous geography and water.) Chongqing Municipality's main city is sucking in its 30-million+ provincial population into an area constricted by mountains and the Yangtze River - so high-rise dominates. Huge infrastructure and industrial investment has made it one of China's 10 largest cities in the last 5 years.Ĭhongqing is Chinese m ainland's most densely populated city. It's the largest of China's four municipalities besides Beijing, Tianjin, and Shanghai, though by contrast its population is mostly rural. 2018 GDP: 0.73 trillion yuan (104 billion USD) Ĭhongqing is famous for its fog and mountains, and the Yangtze River cruise.9-Day Panoramas of Western Sichuan Tour.4-Day Western Sichuan Tibetan Spring Tour from Chengdu.8-Day Chengdu to Shangri-La Adventure Tour.6-Day Essential Chengdu and In-Depth Jiuzhaigou Tour.
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