List of top Chinese cities by GDP per capita

In addition, China's two special administrative regions are highly commercialized and densely populated areas in the world.

In terms of area, prefecture-level cities and municipalities are comparable, and the population and economic sizes are not much different, belonging to the same order of magnitude.

Based on this, this entry only includes China's prefecture-level cities, municipalities and special administrative regions.

Unless the unique resource development drives GDP growth, resulting in a sharp increase in the per capita and attracts attention, the inclusion of such administrative regions in this entry is only a case study due to their lack of advantage in population size and overall economic development level.

The converted US dollar GDP data is calculated based on the annual average exchange rate announced by the Chinese government (NBS) that year.

Macau has the highest GDP per capita in China (US$78,962).
Hong Kong has the second highest GDP per capita in China (US$53,606).
Karamay in Xinjiang has the third highest GDP per capita in China (US$26,223).