Shanghai Per Capita GDP Exceeds US$4,000The per capita gross domestic product (GDP) for Shanghai in 2000 was 4,180 U.S. dollars, the first provincial-level region in China to exceed 4,000 U.S. dollars, except for Taiwan and the Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions, according to the latest statistics available Sunday.According to the statistics, the GDP for this China's largest city in the year 2000 is 455.1 billion yuan (55 billion U.S. dollars), up 10.8 percent than that for last year. "This means that Shanghai has entered the list of the world's medium-developed cities," a local expert said. This was also the ninth consecutive year that Shanghai has reported a double-digit growth rate. |
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