Hefei has officially entered the ranks of China's megacities!
May 21, 2021
On the morning of May 21, the "Communiqué of the Seventh National Census of Hefei" was released. Statistics show that the permanent population of Hefei is 9,369,900, which is an increase of 1.913 million or 25.7% compared with the 7.457 million in the sixth national census in 2010. Ranked sixth in the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration.
Census data shows that Hefei has a permanent population of 5.12 million, and it has entered the ranks of megacities in accordance with the national urban scale classification standards. Among the counties (cities), districts and development zones, Baohe has the largest population with a population of 1.217 million, by Shushan District with a population of 1.047 million, making it two districts in Hefei with a population of over one million.