GDP · 2024
1.3
trillion yuanGansu Statistics ↗
Province-wide GDP
Provinces · China in Figures
Gansu in figures
A long northwest corridor province with energy, minerals, agriculture and strategic transport routes.
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Official administrative map of Gansu Province (32-kai)
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Resident population · 2024
24.58
million peopleGansu Statistics ↗
Year-end resident population
Administrative area · 2024
425,900
sq kmGansu Government ↗
Provincial territory, not built-up area
Province profile
Economy, population and provincial structure
Each value keeps its own unit. Indexed bars provide a visual summary only and are not direct unit comparisons.
Source: Gansu Statistics ↗ · Gansu Government ↗ · Gansu 2024 official statistical release and official geography reference.chinainfigures.com
Urbanisation
56.8 percentGansu Statistics ↗
Share of resident population classified as urban.
GDP per resident
52,825 yuan per personGansu Statistics ↗
Province-wide current-price GDP per resident.
Services share
53.4 percentGansu Statistics ↗
Tertiary industry share of GDP.
Scope
What the province total covers
Gansu stretches from the Loess Plateau through the Hexi Corridor toward Xinjiang. Province totals include Lanzhou and a long, geographically diverse administrative territory.
Boundary
Province is not a metro area
Resident population is the year-end region-wide total: 24.58 million in 2024. Administrative land area (425,900 sq km) is territory inside the provincial-level boundary, not built-up area. Provincial land area.
Economy
How to read the structure
In 2024, Gansu's GDP reached 1.30 trillion yuan and real GDP grew 5.8 percent. 2024 industry structure: primary 12.5%, secondary 34.1%, tertiary 53.4%.
International scale check
Compared with Morocco
Selected for similar economic scale: Morocco.
Not a like-for-like rank
Morocco's nominal GDP (~US$0.16T, World Bank 2024) is close to Gansu's provincial-level GDP after indicative USD conversion (~US$0.19T).
Gansu is a long northwest corridor province with energy, minerals, agriculture and strategic transport routes; Morocco is a sovereign country. GDP proximity is a scale reference only. Population, area, administrative status and economic structure are not directly comparable.
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Gansu
Chinese province-level region-wide scope
Peer country
Morocco
National territory (sovereign state)
| Metric | Gansu | Morocco |
|---|---|---|
| Gross product | 1.3trillion yuan≈ US$187B (Indicative conversion only (≈ CNY 6.97 per USD))Gansu Statistics ↗ | 161US$ billionWorld Bank WDI · GDP (current US$) ↗ |
| Population | 24.58million peopleGansu Statistics ↗ | 38.08million peopleWorld Bank WDI · Population, total ↗ |
| Area | 425,900sq kmGansu Government ↗ | 446,550sq kmWorld Bank WDI / FAO · Surface area ↗ |
| Density (derived) | 58people / sq km | 85people / sq km |
Used only to place Chinese province GDP beside country GDP in USD. Not PPP, not constant-price, and not an official exchange-rate series.
Industrial footprint
Industries that stand out
These facts highlight measurable national or global shares, rankings, and concentrated industry clusters. Sub-provincial facts are labelled with their exact local scope.
Gansu
Traditional Chinese medicine materials
160.6 million tonnes
Traditional Chinese medicine materials output
Province-level Chinese medicinal material industry metric. Preserve original statistical scope and unit; do not infer national share.
Source · Gansu Provincial Statistics Bureau and related public TCM industry sources ↗Gansu
Traditional Chinese medicine materials
5.50 million mu
Traditional Chinese medicine materials cultivation area
The official Gansu TCM-administration carrier retrospectively states that 2025 province-wide Chinese medicinal-material cultivation area reached 5.50 million mu. Preserve the published mu unit and do not substitute the separate statistical-bulletin hectare series.
Source · Gansu Provincial Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine ↗