China's annual GDP ballooned from 1,164.7 hundred million yuan in 1962 to a record 1,401,879 in 2025, a more than 1,200-fold increase spanning 63 year

China Data Portal (2026). Retrieved from https://chinadata.live/data/china-gdp/.

From China China's gross domestic product reached 1,401,879 hundred million yuan in 2025, the highest annual figure since the series began in 1960, cementing a 63-year expansion that has reshaped the global economy.

The figure marks the first time the economy has crossed the symbolic 1.

4 million hundred-million yuan threshold, a milestone that underscores China's transformation from a poor agrarian nation to the world's second-largest economy.

The arc of growth The 2025 figure is the latest data point in a series that stretches back to 1960, when GDP stood at 1,473.3 hundred million yuan . The economy dipped to its lowest point in 1962 at 1,164.

7 , reflecting the tail-end of the Great Leap Forward famine, before a gradual takeoff that accelerated in the 1990s. It took until 1986 for output to crack the 10,000 mark, and until 2003 to surpass 100,000 .

By 2020 , GDP had blown past 1 million , and the latest data confirms that the expansion has now added roughly 400,000 hundred million yuan in just five years.

That latest surge alone exceeds the total size of many middle-income economies. For context, the 1962 trough was smaller than the current annual output of a single large Chinese prefecture.

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