GDP · 2025
1.38
trillion yuanQuanzhou statistics source ↗
Municipality-wide GDP at current prices.
Cities · China in Figures
Quanzhou in figures
Quanzhou is a major private-manufacturing, export and county-industry centre on the southern Fujian coast.
Resident population · 2024
8.91
million peopleQuanzhou resident-population source ↗
Latest archived official value, reference year 2024; no later hukou or inferred value is substituted.
Administrative area · 2026
11,295.6
sq kmQuanzhou administrative-area source ↗
Official land area excluding Kinmen County; separately reported maritime area is excluded.
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: Quanzhou statistics source ↗ · Quanzhou resident-population source ↗ · Quanzhou administrative-area source ↗ · Official Quanzhou statistical communiques and municipal administrative-area sources.chinainfigures.com
Urbanisation
71.19 percentQuanzhou resident-population source ↗
Latest archived official value, reference year 2024; no later hukou or inferred value is substituted.
Disposable income
54,858 yuan per personQuanzhou statistics source ↗
All-resident disposable income per person.
Services share
47.5 percentQuanzhou statistics source ↗
Official tertiary-industry share of GDP.
Population
Which Quanzhou?
The latest archived official resident-population value is for 2024. The 2025 communique publishes hukou population, which is not substituted for resident population.
Area
Administrative territory
The 11,295.6 sq km headline is official land area excluding Kinmen County. The separately reported maritime area is not added and the land area is not built-up area.
Economy and systems
A city in context
GDP, resident income and industry structure use the 2025 official statistical communique; resident population and urbanisation retain their actual 2024 reference year. Quanzhou combines coastal ports, dense private-manufacturing clusters and county-level industrial centres across its full prefecture-level municipal scope.
International scale check
Compared with Indianapolis
Selected for similar economic scale: Indianapolis, United States.
Not a like-for-like rank
The peer MSA GDP (~US$199.2B, 2023) is close to Quanzhou's municipality GDP after indicative USD conversion (~US$197.7B).
Quanzhou uses the official full prefecture-level municipal scope; Indianapolis uses a U.S. MSA boundary. Years, legal status and territorial coverage differ, so GDP proximity is a scale reference only.
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Quanzhou
Chinese municipality-wide administrative scope
Overseas peer
Indianapolis
Indianapolis–Carmel–Anderson, IN MSA
| Metric | Quanzhou | Indianapolis |
|---|---|---|
| Gross product | 1.38trillion yuan≈ US$198B (Indicative conversion only (≈ CNY 6.97 per USD))Quanzhou statistics source ↗ | 199US$ billionBEA metro GDP via FRED NGMP26900, 2023 ↗ |
| Population | 8.91million peopleQuanzhou resident-population source ↗ | 2.11million peopleU.S. Census Bureau 2020 Census metropolitan geography ↗ |
| Area | 11,296sq kmQuanzhou administrative-area source ↗ | 11,152sq kmU.S. Census Bureau 2020 Census metropolitan geography ↗ |
| Density (derived) | 789people / sq km | 189people / 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.