- The newest list of Top 500 Chinese enterprises, jointly unveiled by the China Enterprise Confederation (CEC) and the China Enterprise Directors Association on September 6, showed the entrants staged remarkable growth in 2021 amid an increasingly complex international environment compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Over the past decade, a number of companies in traditional industries such as chemical engineering, metallurgy and real estate have exited the Top 500 list, and members of these industries that remain on the list are speeding up in upgrading their business.
- In 2021, their R&D input amounted to 1.45 trillion yuan ($208 billion).
China’s leading companies ride high amid headwinds
