GDP · 2025
0.91
trillion yuanShenyang Statistics ↗
Municipality-wide GDP.
Cities · China in Figures
Shenyang in figures
Liaoning’s capital and a major northeast centre for advanced equipment, automotive, aerospace, research and services.
Resident population · 2025
9.28
million peopleShenyang Statistics ↗
Year-end resident population across the full municipality.
Administrative area · 2025
12,881
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: Shenyang Statistics ↗ · Shenyang area source ↗ · Official Shenyang statistical releases and administrative-area sources.chinainfigures.com
Urbanisation
85.87 percentShenyang Statistics ↗
Share of resident population classified as urban.
GDP per resident
98,281 yuan per personShenyang Statistics ↗
Official municipality-wide value.
Services share
63.1 percentShenyang Statistics ↗
Tertiary-industry share of GDP.
Population
Which Shenyang?
Resident population covers the full municipality, not only the central built-up districts.
Area
Administrative territory
The territorial-planning area covers the municipality and is not the continuously built-up urban footprint.
Economy and systems
A city in context
The current profile uses the official 2025 statistical communique for GDP, population and economic structure. Shenyang is a major northeast rail, aviation and logistics hub.
International scale check
Compared with Hartford
Selected for similar economic scale: Hartford, United States.
Not a like-for-like rank
The peer MSA GDP (~US$123B, 2023) is close to Shenyang's municipality GDP after indicative USD conversion (~US$131B).
Shenyang is a broad sub-provincial municipality; Hartford uses a multi-county MSA boundary. GDP proximity is a scale reference only.
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Shenyang
Chinese municipality-wide administrative scope
Overseas peer
Hartford
Hartford–East Hartford–Middletown MSA
| Metric | Shenyang | Hartford |
|---|---|---|
| Gross product | 0.91trillion yuan≈ US$131B (Indicative conversion only (≈ CNY 6.97 per USD))Shenyang Statistics ↗ | 123US$ billionU.S. BEA metro GDP, 2023 ↗ |
| Population | 9.28million peopleShenyang Statistics ↗ | 1.21million peopleU.S. Census Bureau metropolitan population ↗ |
| Area | 12,881sq kmShenyang area source ↗ | 4,388sq kmU.S. Census Bureau metropolitan geography ↗ |
| Density (derived) | 720people / sq km | 277people / 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.