Deyang
8.6
High score (8-10) · Your profile
Deyang's heavy industrial base means there's a thin but real population of foreign engineers and technical advisors attached to companies like Dongfang Electric and various power equipment manufacturers. If you're in that professional world, a handful of foreigners in a city of millions get noticed quickly, and locals in professional settings here are curious about the outside world in an unaffected way you don't find in more cosmopolitan places. The bar is low enough that showing up professionally put-together creates immediate social capital.
Mid score (6-8)
Deyang has some industrial foreign professional traffic but no social infrastructure built around it — whatever social life exists for foreign workers happens in private settings or on trips to Chengdu. The city is entirely local in orientation otherwise, and a foreign man who isn't here for work has very few natural entry points. Mandarin competence and a professional affiliation are both essentially required to get anything out of this city.
Lower score (below 6)
Deyang is a heavy industrial manufacturing city with almost no foreign resident population and nothing that functions as a social scene for outsiders. The city's character is working-class and factory-oriented, and meeting someone as a foreign man without a professional introduction is essentially impossible in a city built around closed industrial enterprises and family networks. There's no reason to be here unless you're doing equipment business, and even then you'll be in Chengdu every weekend.
Frequently Asked Questions
What's the median income in Deyang, Sichuan?
$8k median
What's the typical marriage age for women in Deyang, Sichuan?
Women marry at 24
How common is a college degree in Deyang, Sichuan?
13% men have degree
What's the average male height in Deyang, Sichuan?
171 cm local avg
What's the average BMI for women in Deyang, Sichuan?
Local women avg 23.9