The total GDP of the city of Dandong is 9.52 Billion yuan in year 2009 (ranked 40th out of the 58 cities and counties in Liaoning province). The GDP per capita of the city of Dandong is 12414 Yuan in 2009 (ranked 52nd out of all 58 cities and counties in Liaoning province).
China handles roughly 40% of North Korea's worldwide export trade ($1.58 of 4 billion USD) and half of the bilateral commerce with China goes through Dandong which imports $468 million [USD worth of product], according to its Ministry of Commerce. Dandong's annual resident per capita wage income for 2004 was somewhere between ¥9,500 and ¥12,237 RMB and the city's GDP was 3.77 billion USD.
Dandong is widely known in China for producing the Dandong Yellow Sea brand busses. The port of Dandong is being developed into the second major international logistics center of Liaoning and has become a notable alternative to the port of Dalian.
The city had “5.86 million tourists” in 2004, of which 16,000 of those traveled into North Korea; another 81,000 of those were from overseas and pumped $27.54 million USD into the economy. During 2004, “the total tourism income was 4.02 billion Yuan [RMB],” and this was an increase of almost 33% from the previous year
