48 big cities with housing prices below RMB 10,000: the five lowest cities are all from Northeast China

The essence of a city is the agglomeration of population and industry. The size of a city is often directly proportional to its radiation capacity. According to the "2020 China Census County Data" and city size classification standards, there are currently 106 large cities in my country. What are the housing prices in these cities?

China Business News reporters combined the China Housing Price Market Network to sort out the housing prices in 106 major cities with a population of more than 1 million and found that the average unit price in 58 major cities exceeded the 10,000 yuan mark. 45% (i.e. 48) of the big cities have house prices below 10,000 yuan, among which the cheapest big cities have house prices of less than 5,000 yuan.

58 big cities have housing prices over 10,000 yuan

Urban population is the standard for measuring city size. According to the "Notice on Adjusting the Standards for Classification of City Sizes" issued by the State Council in November 2014, cities are divided into five categories and seven categories based on the statistical basis of the permanent population in urban areas. Among them, cities with a permanent urban population of more than 1 million and less than 5 million are large cities, of which cities with a population of more than 3 million but less than 5 million are type I large cities, cities with a population of more than 1 million but less than 3 million are type II large cities; cities with a permanent urban population of 500 Cities with a population of more than 10,000 and less than 10 million are considered megacities; cities with a permanent urban population of more than 10 million are considered megacities.

According to the "2020 China Census County Data", by 2020, there will be 106 large cities in my country, with a total urban population of 372 million, accounting for 64.7% of the country's urban population. . The 106 large cities include 7 megacities, 14 megacities, 14 type I large cities and 71 type II large cities.

From the perspective of housing price range, there are three major cities with average unit prices between 60,000 yuan and 80,000 yuan per square meter, namely Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen. These three cities are all first-tier cities, and they are also the cities with the highest concentrations of several high-income industries. They have high income levels, large inflows of people, and high overall housing prices.

According to the latest "Chinese Enterprise Recruitment Salary Report" for the fourth quarter of 2022 released by Zhaopin Recruitment, Beijing ranks first with a monthly recruitment salary of 13,930 yuan, followed by Shanghai (13,832 yuan) and Shenzhen (13,086 yuan). Ranking third, these three cities are firmly in the first square.

The average unit prices in the three major cities of Xiamen, Guangzhou, and Hangzhou are between 40,000 yuan and below 60,000 yuan per square meter. The average recruitment salaries of these three sub-provincial cities are among the top ten. Among them, Hangzhou and Guangzhou ranked fourth and fifth in terms of average recruitment salary, and Xiamen ranked tenth.

Big cities with average unit prices in the range of 20,000 to 40,000 yuan include Nanjing, Yiwu, Dongguan, Tianjin, Fuzhou, Kunshan, Zhuhai, Suzhou, Qingdao, Ningbo, Wenzhou and Hefei. Most of these cities come from developed coastal areas, with only Hefei coming from the central and western regions. In addition, the average unit prices in the two county-level cities of Yiwu and Kunshan reached 28,456 yuan/square meter and 25,144 yuan/square meter respectively.

It is worth noting that the 106 large cities include 4 county-level cities, namely Kunshan in Jiangsu, Yiwu and Cixi in Zhejiang, and Jinjiang in Fujian. They are all from the southeastern coastal areas, with developed economies and large population inflows. The average unit prices in these four county-level cities all exceeded the 10,000 yuan mark.

Overall, the large cities in the southeastern coastal areas have developed economies, higher income levels, larger inflows of migrant populations, greater demand, lower proportions of non-commercialized housing, and higher overall housing prices. . For example, the unit price of 7 big cities in Zhejiang and 5 big cities in Fujian exceeds 10,000 yuan; among the 11 big cities in Jiangsu, 9 have more than 10,000 yuan; among the 10 big cities in Guangdong, only Jiangmen has an average unit price of less than 10,000 yuan. Over ten thousand yuan.

The average unit price in 48 big cities is less than 10,000 yuan

Among the 106 big cities, there are 48 cities, or 45% of the big cities, where the average unit price is less than 10,000 yuan. From the perspective of city size classification, these 48 cities include the megacity Harbin and the three I-shaped large cities of Guiyang, Urumqi and Changchun. In addition, the urban populations of Linyi, Zibo, Liuzhou and Yantai also exceed 2 million. It can be seen that housing prices in cities with large urban populations may not necessarily be high.

From a regional distribution perspective, the 48 large cities with housing prices of less than RMB 10,000 are mainly from the central and western regions, northeastern China and eastern Shandong. Among them, the overall level of housing prices in major economic cities such as Yantai and Weifang in Shandong is not high.

Currently, there are 7 major cities in Japan with house prices below 6,000 yuan per square meter. Among them, the 5 cities with the lowest house prices are all from the Northeast, namely Qiqihar, Anshan, Fushun, Jinzhou and Daqing and Qiqihar are the only big cities with an average unit price below 5,000 yuan, at 4,902 yuan/square meter. At the same time, in big cities such as Qiqihar, Fushun, and Anshan, there are even "cabbage price" houses worth tens of thousands of yuan per unit.

Yi Baozhong, a professor at the Institute of Northeast Asian Studies at Jilin University, analyzed China Business News that industrialization and urbanization were relatively early in the Northeast. During the planned economy period, there were more cities with large populations in the central urban areas of the Northeast. The cities including Anshan, Fushun and other prefecture-level cities were very large. At that time, the urban population size of many cities was relatively high in the country.

Until the 1980s and early 1990s after the reform and opening up, the urban population size of many prefecture-level cities in Northeast China still ranked among the top in the country.

For example, in the early 1990s, when Fushun, Anshan, Jilin City, and Qiqihar were already large cities with an urban population of more than 1 million, cities in the south such as Xiamen and Ningbo had only a few hundred thousand urban populations. But now, Xiamen and Ningbo are I-shaped cities with an urban population of more than 3 million, and are moving towards megacities. The urban population sizes of Fushun, Anshan, Qiqihar, Jilin and other cities have basically not changed much.

Yi Baozhong analyzed that the economic development of prefecture-level cities in Northeast China has been relatively slow in recent years, and the urban population size has not changed much, and some cities are even shrinking. At present, the population flow in the Northeast mainly flows directly to several sub-provincial cities in the Northeast and developed southeastern coastal areas, and rarely flows to prefecture-level cities. At present, the new demand for housing in the Northeast is mainly concentrated in several sub-provincial cities and prefecture-level cities. There is very little new demand in the city.

On the other hand, in the past planned economy era in these cities, enterprises ran societies. Many state-owned enterprises built houses for their employees, and there were many non-commercial houses. Later, the scale of shantytown renovation in these cities was large, and shantytowns were replaced by shantytowns. There are many room changes. Generally speaking, the housing stock in these cities is relatively large. There is a lot of stock and little new demand, so the overall housing prices are relatively low.