The website of the National Bureau of Statistics announced the per capita disposable income of residents in 31 provinces in the first quarter of 2025. Data shows that in the first quarter of this year, the per capita disposable income of residents in 15 provinces exceeded 10,000 yuan, of which, Shanghai, Beijing and Zhejiang exceeded 20,000 yuan.

Data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on the 16th showed that in the first quarter, the per capita disposable income of residents nationwide was 12,179 yuan, a nominal increase of 5.5% over the same period last year. After deducting price factors, the actual increase was 5.6%. By urban and rural perspective, the per capita disposable income of urban residents was 15,887 yuan, an increase (if there is no special explanation below, it is all nominal growth year-on-year) of 4.9%. After deducting price factors, the actual growth was 5.0%; the per capita disposable income of rural residents was 7,003 yuan, an increase of 6.2%, and after deducting price factors, the actual growth was 6.5%.

By province, there are 15 provinces with per capita disposable income of residents in the first quarter exceeding 10,000 yuan, and the per capita disposable income of residents in the first quarter exceeds 20,000 yuan, namely Shanghai, Beijing and Zhejiang. Among them, the per capita disposable income of Shanghai residents in the first quarter was 25,766 yuan, ranking first. In the first quarter, Beijing's per capita disposable income of residents was 23,606 yuan, ranking second.

Overall, as urban economies, Shanghai and Beijing have high urbanization rates, emerging industries, high-tech industries, modern service industries, etc. are very developed, with outstanding headquarters economy and many high-paying jobs, which has attracted a large number of talents and a high average income of residents.

Zhejiang ranked third in the first quarter of this year with a per capita disposable income of 22,477 yuan.

After Zhejiang, the per capita disposable income of residents in Jiangsu, Tianjin, Guangdong, Fujian, Shandong, Chongqing and Liaoning ranked 4 to 10 in the first quarter. In addition, the per capita disposable income of residents in Inner Mongolia, Anhui, Hunan, Hubei, Hubei and Sichuan also exceeded 10,000 yuan in the first quarter.

Compared with the first quarter of last year, there was one new province with per capita disposable income of over 10,000 yuan in the first quarter of this year, and the new province was Sichuan. Data released by the Sichuan Investigation Team of the National Bureau of Statistics showed that in the first quarter, the per capita disposable income of residents in the province reached 10,021 yuan, a nominal increase of 5.8% year-on-year, and a real increase of 5.8% after deducting price factors. Among them, wage income plays a role as a "ballast stone". With the steady advancement of various employment service measures, the employment situation in the province has been generally stable, driving the steady growth of residents' wage income. In the first quarter, the per capita wage income of residents in the province was 5,370 yuan. The proportion of wage income to residents' per capita disposable income and the contribution rate of income increase were 53.6% and 54.5% respectively, both of which were the largest among the four major categories of income. In addition, net operating income has grown rapidly.

In recent years, the level of industrialization and urbanization in the central and western regions has been continuously improving, especially as scientific and technological innovation has become the basic driving force for development, a number of modern industrial clusters are accelerating the gathering of strong provincial capitals and central cities in the central and western regions. Development drives the rapid growth of practitioners, and thus drives the continued rapid growth of income levels.

Taking Anhui as an example, in 2024, the construction of emerging industry agglomerations in Anhui Province will burst out with new momentum, and the modern industrial systems such as new energy vehicles, integrated circuits, optical storage, and artificial intelligence will have higher "new content" and more "gold content". Among them, automobile production continued to grow by more than 40%, reaching 3.57 million vehicles, and the output of new energy vehicles increased by 94.5%, reaching 1.684 million vehicles, ranking second in the country in terms of output; the export volume of complete vehicles jumped to the first place in the country, and 1 in Anhui is built for every 4 cars exported nationwide. In addition, integrated circuit output increased by 47.4%, and industrial robot output increased by 81.4%.

According to the fifth national economic census publication recently released by the National Bureau of Statistics, at the end of 2023, the number of employees in Anhui's legal entity units reached 17.739 million, an increase of 4.077 million in five years, an increase of 29.8% in five years, ranking first in the country.

In Shaanxi, emerging industries such as new energy vehicles in Shaanxi have developed rapidly in recent years. Data shows that in 2024, Shaanxi's new energy vehicle production was 1.198 million, an increase of 13.9% over the previous year; solar cell production was 82.6218 million kilowatts, an increase of 57.2%; integrated circuit wafer production was 8.854 million, an increase of 36.7%.

On April 17, the Shaanxi Survey Team of the National Bureau of Statistics released data showing that in the first quarter, the per capita disposable income of Shaanxi residents was 9,394 yuan, a nominal increase of 6.0% over the same period last year. After deducting price factors, the actual increase was 5.7%. Four revenues grew comprehensively. Among them, in the first quarter, the per capita wage income of Shaanxi residents was 5,199 yuan, an increase of 310 yuan year-on-year, an increase of 6.3%, accounting for 55.3% of the disposable income.

Per capita disposable income of residents in 31 provinces in the first quarter of 2025 (data source: National Bureau of Statistics)