Bigger scale brings more opportunities

Wuxi, located in southern Jiangsu province, became the nation's 14th city with GDP exceeding 1 trillion yuan ($159 billion) in 2017, the third city to make the achievement in Jiangsu after Suzhou and the provincial capital Nanjing.

A few days ago, Changsha, capital of Hunan province, projected its GDP grew by 9 percent to reach 1.02 trillion yuan last year.

So far, 14 cities on the Chinese mainland have joined the 1 trillion yuan club, with their combined GDP reaching 21.88 trillion yuan in 2016, accounting for 29.4 percent of the Chinese mainland's total.