Natural wealth and business savvy helps Chengdu shine

Biodiversity

As a city rich in biodiversity, Chengdu has 3,139 species of higher-level wild plants and 753 species of wild animals. They include four plant species and 29 animal species under first-class national protection. It has rare plants such as Cystoathyrium chinense Ching and animals such as golden monkeys and a special kind of antelope.

The Chengdu part of Giant Panda National Park covers an area of about 1,459 sq km, boasting about 90 percent of the park's terrestrial wild animal species and 85 percent of its seed plant species.

Chengdu has a strong economy. Its regional GDP exceeded 2.08 trillion yuan ($288.76 billion) in 2022, ranking seventh among China's cities. It is a nationally central city and a core part of the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle. The city boasts two 1-trillion-yuan industries of electronic information and equipment manufacturing; and 10 100-billion-yuan industry clusters, including biomedicine and aerospace. It is also expanding new sectors including precision medicine, brain-inspired intelligence and quantum computing.

Approximately 50 percent of the world's laptop chips are packaged and tested in Chengdu and 20 percent of notebook computers are manufactured in the city.