The growth rate reached 5.8%, which is 0.3 percentage points higher than the provincial average. Recently, as the 2025 economic data for the four cities of Chengdu, Deyang, Meishan, and Ziyang were successively released, the Chengdu Metropolitan Area construction achieved a significant breakthrough: its total economic output exceeded 3 trillion yuan, accounting for 46.3% of the province's total, establishing itself as the core engine driving Sichuan's high-quality economic development.
In 2025, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the Chengdu Metropolitan Area reached 3,131.02 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5.8%, which was 0.3 percentage points higher than the provincial average. In terms of distribution, Chengdu continued to play a core leading role, topping the metropolitan area with a GDP of 2,476.36 billion yuan; Meishan's economic growth was remarkable, with its annual GDP reaching 200.872 billion yuan, successfully entering the "200 billion club"; Deyang and Ziyang progressed steadily, with GDPs of 338.71 billion yuan and 115.08 billion yuan respectively, growing by 5.4% and 5.8% year-on-year.
Industrial synergy is the core engine driving the economic growth of the Chengdu Metropolitan Area. In 2025, industrial collaboration among the four cities of Chengdu, Deyang, Meishan, and Ziyang continued to deepen, with the output value of 9 jointly-built key industrial chains exceeding 1.2 trillion yuan, and the number of cross-city cooperative enterprises within the "circle" surpassing 2,860.
Driven by the industrial chains, the value-added of industries above a designated size in the Chengdu Metropolitan Area increased by 7.4% year-on-year in 2025, a growth rate 0.9 percentage points higher than the provincial average, demonstrating a strong momentum of complementary differentiation and dynamic energy release. Specifically, Chengdu's output of new energy vehicles and lithium-ion batteries increased by 181.0% and 33.9% year-on-year respectively, showing significant advantages in new quality productive forces; Deyang's "3+1" leading industries saw value-added growth of 5.4%, with the electronics and communication equipment manufacturing industry surging 44.9% year-on-year, continuously consolidating its equipment manufacturing advantages; Meishan's lithium battery sector grew 31.1%, and liquid crystal display modules increased by 20.6%, leading the province in industrial upgrading momentum; Ziyang's electronic information industry grew 40.1%, and lithium-ion batteries increased by 63.3%, demonstrating dual-driven growth from emerging and specialized industries.
Performance in the investment sector was also impressive. In 2025, fixed-asset investment in the Chengdu Metropolitan Area increased by 1.8% year-on-year, a growth rate 4.2 percentage points higher than the provincial average.
The Fifth National Economic Census indicated that the tertiary sector has become a major force driving China's economic growth. This is corroborated by the Chengdu Metropolitan Area's annual report. Taking consumption as an example, the total retail sales of consumer goods in the Chengdu Metropolitan Area reached 1,379.05 billion yuan in 2025, a year-on-year increase of 5.4%, which was 0.3 percentage points higher than the provincial growth rate, accounting for 47.3% of the provincial total, indicating continuously released vitality.
Behind the data lies the orderly advancement of further planning. The recently released "2026 Chengdu Metropolitan Area Joint Outbound and Overseas Expansion Plan" specifies the implementation of six initiatives, including brand matrix promotion and diversified market expansion. It focuses on characteristic industries such as Chengdu's electronics and information, Deyang's equipment manufacturing, Meishan's photovoltaics, and Ziyang's oral healthcare, aiming to promote over 800 categories of products to expand into overseas markets, striving to add more than 700 enterprises with actual foreign trade import and export performance, and increase the number of cross-border e-commerce enterprises to over 4,000.