Skyline of the Qianjiang New Town in Hangzhou city, East China's Zhejiang province [Photo/IC]

Hangzhou, registering a GDP of 694.9 billion yuan ($100.97 billion) in the first half of this year, ranked 10th in China in terms of GDP, according to a report by the National Bureau of Statistics.

The overall GDP of the top 30 cities in H1, with an average growth rate of 6.92 percent, contributed 44.12 percent to the national total, the report said.

Shanghai posted the strongest GDP growth among all 30 cities on the list, climbing 5.9 percent year-on-year to 1.64 trillion yuan, followed by Beijing, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Chongqing and Tianjin, all of whom had GDP exceeding 1 trillion yuan in the first half of the year.

Fuzhou in East China's Fujian province also made the top 30 this year, while Shijiazhuang dropped off the list.

Six of the top 30 cities are from East China's Jiangsu province, more than any other province. Shandong, Guangdong, Zhejiang and Fujian provinces had 4, 4, 2 and 2 cities on the list, respectively.

Based on the data compiled for H1, a total of 15 cities had a GDP growth rate of 7 percent, namely Fuzhou, Chengdu, Changsha, Nanjing, Wuhan, Hefei, Quanzhou, Zhengzhou, Tangshan, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Wuxi, Changzhou, Jinan and Xi'an.