According to statistics released by the Shanghai Bureau of Statistics and the Shanghai Investigation Team on January 23 and verified by the National Bureau of Statistics, Shanghai had a total GDP of 1.029697 trillion yuan in 2006 for the first time in history.

Shanghai is now the seventh mainland province to record a GDP in excess of one trillion yuan. Other provinces to have had such a high GDP include Guangdong, Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Henan and Hebei province. Shanghai is also the very first municipality to enter this class.

By Peaple's Daily Online