GDP · 2025
0.6
trillion yuanGuiyang Statistics ↗
Municipality-wide GDP.
Cities · China in Figures
Guiyang in figures
Guizhou’s capital and a southwest highland centre for big data, electronic information, phosphates, tourism and regional services.
Resident population · 2025
6.67
million peopleGuiyang Statistics ↗
Year-end resident population across the stated municipal statistical scope.
Administrative area · 2025
8,043
Administrative territory, not built-up area.
City profile
Economy, population and urban systems
Each value keeps its own unit. Indexed bars provide a visual summary only and are not direct unit comparisons.
Source: Guiyang Statistics ↗ · Guiyang area source ↗ · Official Guiyang statistical releases and administrative-area sources.chinainfigures.com
Urbanisation
81.4 percentGuiyang Statistics ↗
Share of resident population classified as urban.
GDP per resident
90,995 yuan per personGuiyang Statistics ↗
Official municipality-wide value.
Services share
66.8 percentGuiyang Statistics ↗
Tertiary-industry share of GDP.
Population
Which Guiyang?
Resident population covers the full municipality, including six districts, Qingzhen and three counties.
Area
Administrative territory
The official natural-geography page gives a municipal area of 8,043 sq km; it is not the built-up urban footprint.
Economy and systems
A city in context
The current profile uses the official 2025 statistical communique for GDP, population, GDP per capita and industry structure. Guiyang is a major southwest rail, aviation and communications hub.
International scale check
Compared with Buffalo
Selected for similar economic scale: Buffalo, United States.
Not a like-for-like rank
The peer MSA GDP (~US$91B, 2023) is close to Guiyang's municipality GDP after indicative USD conversion (~US$87B).
Guiyang is a highland provincial-capital municipality with outer counties; Buffalo uses a two-county U.S. MSA boundary. GDP proximity is a scale reference only.
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Guiyang
Chinese municipality-wide administrative scope
Overseas peer
Buffalo
Buffalo–Cheektowaga MSA
| Metric | Guiyang | Buffalo |
|---|---|---|
| Gross product | 0.6trillion yuan≈ US$87B (Indicative conversion only (≈ CNY 6.97 per USD))Guiyang Statistics ↗ | 91US$ billionU.S. BEA metro GDP via FRED, 2023 ↗ |
| Population | 6.67million peopleGuiyang Statistics ↗ | 1.17million peopleU.S. Census Bureau metropolitan population ↗ |
| Area | 8,043sq kmGuiyang area source ↗ | 4,049sq kmU.S. Census Bureau metropolitan geography ↗ |
| Density (derived) | 829people / sq km | 288people / sq km |
Used only to place Chinese municipality GDP beside peer metro GDP in USD. Not PPP, not constant-price, and not an official exchange-rate series.