China 2025 GDP Reaches RMB 140 Trillion; Zhejiang Rural Income Tops 41 Years, Urban-Rural Ratio 1.64

Common prosperity is the essential requirement of socialism with Chinese characteristics and a long-term historical process. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, a series of important elaborations on common prosperity have provided fundamental guidance for solidly advancing it. In practice, Zhejiang has continued to implement the "Eight-Eight Strategy" and steadily built the common prosperity demonstration zone. On the new journey of the 15th Five-Year Plan period, work continues on developing the real economy, promoting employment and income growth, and encouraging hard work and innovation to achieve prosperity.

Making the pie bigger is an important prerequisite for advancing common prosperity. China remains a developing country, and expanding economic scale while consolidating the material foundation through high-quality development is a key basis for promoting common prosperity for all. Since the 14th Five-Year Plan period, urban employment has stabilized at over 12 million new jobs annually, with residents' income growth broadly keeping pace with economic growth. Economic development creates jobs, drives steady income gains and boosts fiscal revenue, supporting improvements in basic public services and social security. In recent years, large-scale equipment renewal and technological transformation have pushed traditional industries toward intelligent, green and integrated development, while strategic emerging industries have been cultivated and expanded. China's manufacturing scale has ranked first globally for many consecutive years. In 2025, GDP reached a new milestone of RMB 140 trillion, with per capita GDP near RMB 100,000.

Jiangsu focuses on the "1650" industrial system, building 16 advanced manufacturing clusters and 50 key industry chains. In 2025, manufacturing value-added accounted for the largest share of provincial GDP nationally, and the manufacturing high-quality development index ranked first nationwide for five consecutive years, with over 61,000 high-tech enterprises. Guangdong relies on its complete industry chains to build a modern industrial system, with regional GDP ranking first nationally for more than 30 consecutive years. In 2025, industrial enterprises above designated size reached 76,000, and 20 industrial clusters contributed 31.7% of provincial GDP. Sichuan has implemented a quality improvement and doubling initiative for six major advantageous industries, with auto production exceeding 1 million units in 2025, while deploying artificial intelligence, aerospace, low-altitude economy and other emerging industries along "15+N" key industry chains. Shaanxi leverages the Qinchuangyuan innovation-driven platform to convert scientific and educational strengths into industrial advantages, with new energy vehicle production surpassing 1 million units in 2025 and output growth exceeding 10% for eight industry chains including photonics and drones.

Employment is the most fundamental livelihood. Surveys show that 70% of residents' per capita disposable income and 80% of net income of households lifted out of poverty come from wage income and business income. Localities continue to innovate in stabilizing jobs, expanding posts, optimizing distribution and providing targeted assistance. Shandong treats industrial collaboration as a key engine for cooperation and assistance, targeting Gansu's eight core industries of cattle, sheep, vegetables, fruits, potatoes, medicinal herbs, grain and seeds to promote scaled, standardized and branded development of specialty industries. Aba Prefecture in Sichuan leverages plateau specialty agriculture, animal husbandry and cultural tourism, launching special projects such as deep processing of snow pears and driving more than 10,000 people to gain employment and income locally. Jiangsu issued the Jiangsu Collective Consultation Regulations, setting clear requirements for promoting collective contracts on worker technological innovation and "skill-level wages." Shanghai has published market wage levels for skilled enterprise personnel for many consecutive years. Guangyuan in Sichuan has established an information-sharing mechanism to dynamically track recipients of subsistence allowances and disability benefits, proactively identifying beneficiaries of social insurance subsidies and public welfare job placements.

Zhejiang adheres to carrying out one blueprint to the end and takes the lead in demonstrating common prosperity. Rooted in the real economy, Zhejiang leverages the important role of private enterprises in stabilizing growth and expanding jobs, creating the "enterprise + village collective + farmers" model and implementing the mountain-sea cooperation project and "common prosperity workshop" construction. Linhai extends festival light production to villages through the common prosperity workshop model, driving more than 2,200 farmer households to work nearby. Transfar Group leverages its industrial resources to build "Xiejing'an Transfar Agri-Innovation Village," empowering rural industrial revitalization through industry. As of the end of 2025, the province had 278 national manufacturing single champion enterprises and 2,166 specialized and sophisticated "little giant" enterprises, with industrial internet platforms covering industrial clusters with output exceeding RMB 10 billion. The province's rural residents' per capita disposable income has ranked first among all provinces nationwide for 41 consecutive years.

Zhejiang focuses on narrowing urban-rural, regional and income gaps, using institutional reform as a lever to continuously optimize the distribution pattern. The province implements "expanding the middle and raising the bottom" reforms, targeting nine groups including skilled workers, workers in new employment forms and migrant workers in cities to broaden income channels. Through the "Seven Priorities" public service project, it advances integrated reform of basic public services and builds a "15-minute public service circle." In education, more than 4,700 compulsory education schools (campuses) participate in education community partnerships, and 24 counties (cities, districts) were selected in 2024 as counties achieving high-quality balanced development of compulsory education. All 90 counties (cities, districts) in Zhejiang have implemented the "shared teachers" reform, with 1,857 schools participating, accounting for 16% of the province's primary and secondary schools.

Zhejiang makes narrowing urban-rural, regional and income gaps the main focus, deepens the application of the "Ten Million Project" experience, creates a "county seat - central town - key village" development axis, and promotes institutional reform for urban-rural integration. The development axis takes counties as important units, with county seats, central towns and key villages as key axis points, promoting industrial clustering, population concentration, service integration and resource aggregation in county areas through spatial optimization, industrial linkage and functional complementarity. Along the axis, integrated urban-rural water supply, systematic sewage treatment, "Four Good Rural Roads" construction and large-scale 5G application are advanced to promote common prosperity and development of urban and rural areas. Targeting the location constraints and weak industrial foundations of mountainous and island counties, the mountain-sea cooperation is deepened to cultivate and expand specialty industries. In 2025, industrial value-added of enterprises above designated size in mountainous and island counties (including adjusted-out counties) exceeded RMB 200 billion, with growth rates above the provincial average. In 2025, the province built 136 "local specialty" whole industry chains with output exceeding RMB 1 billion. In the first half of 2026, the urban-rural per capita disposable income ratio stood at 1.64, narrowing by 0.03 year on year.