List of largest Chinese companies

The headquarters of the electric utility company State Grid in Beijing. It was China's largest and the world's third-largest company by revenue in 2021, with annual revenues of over US$460 billion.[1] The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China was both China and the world's largest company by assets in 2021, with over US$5.5 trillion in total assets.[2]

This article lists the largest companies in China in terms of their revenue, net profit and total assets, according to the American business magazines Fortune and Forbes. In 2022, Fortune's Global 500 list of the world's largest corporations included 145 Chinese companies in total.[1] Over the same year, Forbes reported that three of the world's ten largest public companies were Chinese, including the world's largest bank by total assets, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China.[2] Many of China's largest companies are state-owned enterprises, due to the significant presence of the Chinese government in the national economy.[3]

  1. ^ a b "Global 500". Fortune. 2022. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
  2. ^ a b "Global 2000". Forbes. 2022. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
  3. ^ "State-owned enterprises: Fixing China Inc". The Economist. 30 August 2014. Retrieved 6 February 2015.