In 2025, the final year of China's 14th Five-Year Plan (2021–25), Tai'an's economy maintained a stable, progressive, and quality-oriented development trend, actively integrating into and contributing to the new development.

The city's regional GDP reached 380.35 billion yuan ($54.85 billion), a year-on-year increase of 5.9 percent. Agricultural output grew steadily, with the total output value of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, and fishery rising by 4.6 percent.

The value-added of industrial enterprises above the designated size increased by 7.8 percent, with manufacturing growing by 9.4 percent, contributing 96.3 percent to the overall industrial growth. Among 37 major industrial sectors, 62.2 percent recorded growth. From January to November 2025, the operating income of service enterprises above a designated size grew by 9.8 percent, with 80 percent of sectors expanding.

Retail sales of consumer goods rose by 6.6 percent, while fixed asset investment increased slightly by 0.2 percent. Total foreign trade grew significantly by 10.8 percent, with exports rising by 17.6 percent.

The digital economy has emerged as a new driver of growth. Since settling in Tai'an in April 2025, Shandong Fellisen has built a multi-modal data annotation platform and established a complete industrial ecosystem. Its digital industrial base, with a planned workforce of 1,000, achieved an output value exceeding 22 million yuan within just six months, providing new momentum for regional industrial advancement.

Tai'an is a treasure trove of cultural and tourism resources. [Photo by Chen Yang/for chinadaily.com.cn]