During the Third Session of the 14th Jiangsu Provincial People’s Congress on 19 January, Governor of Jiangsu Xu Kunlin revealed that the Province’s GDP totalled ¥13.7 trillion in 2024, representing an increase of 5.

Note: no sound] A view of the loading and unloading operation area of the container terminal in Longtan Port Area of Nanjing Port, Jiangsu province, China,6, 2025. According to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on the same day,

Gao’s sin? Saying that China may have grown just 2% over the last two or three years, less than half the rate Xi’s government claims. The reason Gao is allegedly being silenced is for shining a brighter-than-usual spotlight on one of the biggest perception problems facing Xi’s Communist Party: that China routinely cooks the GDP books.

Sales of consumer goods grew a moderate 3.5 percent, while hospitality sectors continued to outperform discretionary segments such as apparel, gold and jewelry.