Top Chinese cities by consumption expenditures per capita

The residents’ expenditures in Shenzhen (pic) and Beijing both exceeded 43,000 yuan in 2019, and Guangzhou ranked fourth with 41,999 yuan personally spent on average.

SHANGHAI: Shanghai tops 35 major Chinese cities in consumption expenditures per capita in 2019, with 45,605 yuan (US$6781.46) spent, followed by the three other first-tier cities of Shenzhen, Beijing and Guangzhou.

Seventeen cities have personally spent over 30,000 yuan on average, and most of them are from economically developed coastal regions in the east, according to financial media Yicai.com.