Population has always been the key to the competition of many cities, and a growing population can provide a steady stream of economic growth and technological innovation for major cities.
However, in recent years, the overall population of the mainland has shown a downward trend, and the overall population of the mainland will decrease by 2.08 million in 2023.
However, these policies do not seem to have a very obvious effect on stimulating young people's fertility, on the contrary, some cities are smarter, and they can not only drive economic growth through industrial stimulation, but also bring population growth, especially the entry of some large enterprises, which plays an immediate role in driving the growth of the local population.
For example, BYD, as the largest new energy vehicle manufacturer in China, has developed very rapidly in recent years, corresponding to their demand for personnel has also risen rapidly, and BYD's production bases in many cities have increased labor demand, which has also directly driven the growth of the local population and become the thigh of population growth in many cities.
Up to now, many large cities in the country have released their population data for 2023, and the following figure shows the population growth of the mainland's trillion-dollar GDP cities in 2023.
Judging from the population growth of the trillion GDP club cities in 2023, the population of Chongqing and Yantai has declined, while the population of Shanghai, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Xi'an, Zhengzhou, Hangzhou, Changsha, and Hefei has grown relatively fast.
The reason for the rapid growth of the population of these cities, in addition to the inherent attractiveness of the big cities themselves, the rapid development of the new energy vehicle industry in recent years is also an important reason for the population growth of these cities, especially for Hefei, Zhengzhou, Jinan, Xi'an These cities, BYD's contribution to the local population growth is very obvious.
At present, BYD has production bases in many cities across the country, and many bases are very large in scale, and the number of workers is also very large.
Taking Hefei as an example, in 2023, Hefei's permanent population will reach 9.853 million, an increase of 219,000 from 2022, making it the city with the largest population increase among all cities in the country.
Moreover, in recent years, the annual increase in Hefei's permanent population has been on an upward trend, such as 95,000 new people in 2021, 169,000 new people in 2022, and 209,000 new people in 2023.
Among the new permanent residents in Hefei, a large part of them are immigrants, and a large part of them are driven by the new energy vehicle industry.
For example, in July 2021, BYD's Hefei factory was settled in Xiatang Town, Changfeng County, and the corresponding population of Changfeng County also increased from 792,000 at the end of 2021 to 833,000 at the end of 2022, with an increase of 41,000 people in a year.
BYD's settlement in Zhengzhou has made a more significant contribution to the growth of the local population.
Since 2020, Zhengzhou's annual new population has shown a downward trend, with 125,000 and 86,000 new people in Zhengzhou in 2021 and 2022 respectively.
In April 2023, with the official commissioning of the Zhengzhou BYD Gigafactory, Zhengzhou's Xinyuan automobile production has soared from 69,800 units in 2022 to 320,000 units in 2023, and the current number of employees at BYD's Zhengzhou plant is more than 20,000 units, which has made a great contribution to promoting the growth of Zhengzhou's population.
Moreover, according to the plan of BYD's Zhengzhou Gigafactory, it is expected that the number of workers will reach 70,000 after it is completed and put into operation, which will further promote the growth of Zhengzhou's population.
The same is true for Jinan, at present, BYD's Jinan factory is located in Jiyang District (the area is managed by the starting area), in 2020, the population of Jiyang District is only 401,800, and according to the official website of Jiyang District, the current population of Jiyang District has reached 552,400 (including the starting area).
In addition, the number of employees in BYD's factory in Xi'an Yiyi District is also very large, and it has been continuously expanding its production capacity in recent years, which also directly drives the growth of the population of Hubei District, which is only 459,400 in 2020, and by the end of 2022, its population has risen to 594,000, and according to the latest data, the permanent population of Hubei District has reached 646197 people, which can be seen that the population growth of Hubei District in the past few years is very fast, and a large part of it is contributed by BYD.
It can be seen that for a super factory like BYD, it can not only directly promote the growth of local GDP, but also play a great role in helping the local area attract more talents.
This also fully illustrates a truth, people follow the industry, where the industry is more developed, the faster the population growth will be.