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East China’s Anhui province ranked tenth in the country with 952.91 billion yuan ($147.31 billion) of gross domestic product (GDP) in the first quarter this year, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed. The province outshone Shanghai, whose GDP came in at 945.89 billion yuan, by one notch during the period. In the first quarter of 2020, Shanghai’s GDP reached 785.66 billion yuan, more than Anhui’s 782.13 billion yuan. Anhui’s economy has entered the fast lane since the province became part of the Yangtze River Delta, a region seeking integrated development under a national strategy. The province posted increases of 40.8 percent and 44.4 percent in the value-added output of equipment manufacturing and high-tech manufacturing, respectively. The country’s GDP rose 18.3 percent year on year to 24.93 trillion yuan in the first three months of the year. Central China’s Hubei province saw the fastest economic growth of 58.3 percent among the 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities on the Chinese mainland. It was followed by South China’s Hainan province (19.8 percent), East China’s Zhejiang province (19.5 percent), East China’s Jiangsu province (19.2 percent), and Anhui province(18.7 percent).
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