52 Guangdong companies rank among China's top 500 enterprises

On September 11th, the latest list of China's top 500 enterprises was released, with 52 companies from Guangdong making the prestigious ranking. The combined revenue of these 500 companies surpassed 110 trillion yuan, representing a 1.58% increase compared to the previous year. Huawei led the list in R&D spending, investing 164.7 billion yuan in research and development.

Among the listed companies, 16 achieved revenues exceeding one trillion yuan, while 253 companies reported revenues of over 100 billion yuan, making up more than half of the list. The top five companies in terms of revenue are State Grid (3.864 trillion yuan), Sinopec (3.041 trillion yuan), China National Petroleum Corporation(2.985 trillion yuan), China State Construction (2.266 trillion yuan), and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (1.611 trillion yuan). Rounding out the top ten are China Construction Bank, Agricultural Bank of China, China Railway, Bank of China, and China Railway Construction.

In terms of regional distribution, Beijing leads with 78 companies, followed by Shandong (55), Guangdong (52), Zhejiang (51), Jiangsu (40), Shanghai (33), Hebei (25), Fujian (21), Sichuan (19), and Hubei (14), representing the top ten provinces with the most companies on the list.

R&D expenditure by these top 500 companies reached 1.81 trillion yuan, an increase of 235 billion yuan, or 14.89% year-on-year. Huawei, with its 164.7 billion yuan R&D expenditure, ranked first.

Corresponding with the surge in R&D investment, innovation output among these companies also improved. The total number of valid patents held by the China's top 500 enterprises reached 2.0297 million, an increase of 144,400 patents or 7.66% compared to the previous year. Of these, 889,600 were invention patents, marking a 19.67% increase. Invention patents now account for 43.83% of all patents, up 4.40 percentage points from last year, reflecting an improvement in patent quality.

52家粵企躋身中國企業500強

9月11日，“中國企業500強”榜單發佈，其中52家廣東企業躋身中國企業500強。500強企業營業收入總和突破110萬億元大關，較上年相比增長1.58%。研發投入方面，華爲以1647億元的研發費用位居第一。

在上榜企業中，有16家企業營業收入破萬億元，營業收入超過千億元的企業數量達到253家，佔比超過50%。從具體排名來看，前五強分別爲國家電網（38648.92億元）、中國石化（30419.46億元）、中國石油（29854.11億元）、中國建築（22655.29億元）、工商銀行（16116.30億元），第六到十名是建設銀行、農業銀行、中國鐵路、中國銀行、中國鐵建。

地域分佈方面，北京（78家）、山東（55家）、廣東（52家）、浙江（51家）、江蘇（40家）、上海（33家）、河北（25家）、福建（21家）、四川（19家）、湖北（14家）是入圍企業最多的十個省份。

研發投入方面，上榜企業投入研發費用累計達1.81萬億元，同口徑增長了2350億元，增幅爲14.89%。其中，華爲以1647億元的研發費用位居第一。

與研發投入快速增長對應，上榜企業的創新成果產出水平繼續提升。2024中國企業500強持有有效專利總數202.97萬件，比上年增加了14.44萬件，增長了7.66%。其中，持有發明專利88.96萬件，比上年增長了19.67%；發明專利佔全部專利的43.83%，比上年提高了4.40個百分點，專利質量提升。

文、圖丨記者 許張超翻譯丨趙凡英文審校丨鄭聖浩