While facing the complex and changing international environment and the severe epidemic situation, Huai'an insisted on both "stability" and "progress" in economic and social development, and coordinated the epidemic prevention and control scientifically. In the first quarter, 2022, the city's economy achieved a good and steady start, with the main economic indicators running in a reasonable range.

According to the unified regional calculation of gross domestic product, the city's GDP in the first quarter reached 109.606 billion yuan. At comparable prices, it increased by 5.2% year-on-year, 0.4 and 0.6 percentage points higher than that of the whole country and the whole province separately. By industry, there was added value of 3.986 billion yuan for primary industry, 50.684 billion yuan for secondary industry and 54.936 billion yuan for tertiary industry, up 3.8%, 8.1% and 3.0%, respectively.