Nanming joins national list for comprehensive strength

The Nanming district of Guiyang -- capital city of Southwest China's Guizhou province -- recently made it onto the list of the National Top 100 Districts for Investment Potential and the list of the National Top 100 Districts for Comprehensive Strength, ranking 51st and 86th places, respectively.

The lists were included in the Research Results of the High-quality Development Index of Small and Medium-sized Cities in China in 2022, jointly released by the Guo Xin Small and Medium Cities Index Research Institute and the China Small and Medium-sized Cities Development Index Research Group.

Small and medium-sized cities refer to those with a permanent population of 100,000 to 1 million people.

They are an important part of the country's economic transformation from high-speed development to high-quality development and are equally said to play an important role in the construction of Chinese-style modernization in the new era.

The scope of the list of the top 100 districts in terms of comprehensive strength includes 793 districts with townships and relatively independent development across the country.

Statistics showed that in 2021, the resident population of the top 100 districts with comprehensive strength in China reached 109.11 million and their per capita GDP hit 120,800 yuan ($17,232), 1.5 times the national average.

These districts created 11.52 percent of the country's GDP and 4.44 percent of the general public budget revenue.