Preliminary calculations show that the city's 2024 gross domestic product (GDP) reached 421.34 billion yuan, reflecting a 5.8% year-on-year growth at comparable prices. By sector, the added value of the primary industry amounted to 17.71 billion yuan, the added value of the secondary industry reached 197.77 billion yuan, and the added value of the tertiary industry totaled 205.86 billion yuan, with a growth rate of 4.3%, 6.9% and 4.8% respectively. The three-industry structure was 4.2:46.9:48.9. The per capita GDP reached 122,057 yuan, marking a 5.0% growth.

In accordance with the fifth national economic census results and national GDP accounting standards, the city's 2023 GDP has been revised to 403.06 billion yuan, with the three-industry structure adjusted to 4.3:47.7:48.0.

According to the 2024 population change sampling survey, the city’s permanent resident population at the end of the year was 3.465 million, an increase of 26,000 from the end of the previous year. Among them, the urban population was 2.383 million and the rural population was 1.082 million; the urbanization rate was 68.8%, an increase of 1.3 percentage points from the previous year. The total number of births throughout the year was 19,000, with a birth rate of 5.6 ‰; the total number of deaths was 25,000, with a mortality rate of 7.4 ‰ and a natural growth rate of -1.8 ‰.

The annual general public budget revenue stood at 41.07 billion yuan, up 0.1% from the previous year. Among them, the tax revenue reached 32.5 billion yuan, a decrease of 6.2%. In terms of major tax categories, the value-added tax came to 14.04 billion yuan, a decrease of 6.0%. The expenditure in general public budget was 59.05 billion yuan, a decrease of 2.7%. Key expenditures in agriculture, forestry and water resources, science and technology, education, social security and employment increased by 11.8%, 15.4%, 5.9%, and 1.3%, respectively.

The new quality forces are steadily developing. The added value of core digital economy industries reached 26.28 billion yuan, up 6.4% YoY. The added value of the manufacturing sector of the core digital economy industry above designated size grew by 14.0%, exceeding the industrial sector above designated size by 6.7 percentage points, driving a growth of 1.5 percentage points in the added value of the industrial sector above designated size. In industries above designated size, the added value of high-tech industries, equipment manufacturing industries, and high-tech industries grew by 7.4%, 12.6%, and 15.6% respectively, all exceeding the average level of industries above designated size; their added value accounted for 69.3%, 40.7%, and 10.2% of total above-designated-size industries respectively, with an increase of 2.3, 1.5, and 1.2 percentage points compared to the previous year.

The private economy continues to thrive. Over the past year, there has been a net increase of 14,000 business entities across the whole city, with 7 enterprises ranking among China’s Top 500 Private Enterprises. The 3,902 industrial private enterprises above designated size citywide accounted for 91.6% of all industrial enterprises above designated size. These enterprises generated an added value of 110.99 billion yuan throughout the year, representing 83.1% of the total added value of industrial enterprises above designated size. The added value increased by 8.7% year-on-year, 1.4 percentage points higher than that of industrial enterprises above designated size, contributing 97.6% to the growth of added value of industrial enterprises above designated size.