The List of Top 500 Chinese Enterprises (2025) released

09-16, 2025

On September 15, China Enterprise Confederation (CEC) and China Enterprise Directors Association (CEDA) released the List of Top 500 Chinese Enterprises (2025).The threshold for entry onto the list is an enterprise’s 47.96-billion-yuan operating revenue generated in 2024, being 579 million yuan more than the previous year.The top 500 Chinese enterprises on this year’s list generated a total operating revenue of 110.15 trillion yuan in 2024, presenting a growth tendency from the previous year. In detail, 267 enterprises, accounting for 53.4% of all the shortlisted enterprises, are 100-billion-yuan enterprises, showing a yearly increase of 14 enterprises which generated independently an operating revenue of over 100 billion yuan in 2024. For the 8th year in a row, the Top 500 Chinese Enterprises show the increased average of their R&D Intensity. This year, the enterprises’ input into the research and development reaches a historical high, taking over a 1.95% share. The list keeps a basic balance between the number of the state-owned enterprises and the private enterprises on the shortlist, respectively being 251 and 249.Reference: XinhuaNotice: we respect your intellectual property right and your other lawful rights. As any content here violates any of your lawful rights, please contact us, and we will delete related content.

The number of artificial intelligence enterprises has exceeded 5000 in China

09-11, 2025

During the recent 5 years, the quantity of artificial intelligence enterprises in China has increased from over 1400 to over 5000, approximately averaged out at 11 ones emerging per hour. China has over 5000 artificial intelligence enterprises now, including over 400 national “Little-Giant” enterprises specialized in artificial intelligence, expressed by Xin Guobin, deputy minister of Industry and Information Technology of the nation, at the World Smart Industry Fair 2025(WSIF 2025) held in China’s southwest city -- Chongqing.According to the statistical data in the China Internet Development Report 2021, China’s artificial intelligence enterprises in 2020 totaled 1454. The number triples during the following 5 years. China attaches great importance to the artificial intelligence development. In July 2017, China issued the New-Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan. In this August, the nation released the Suggestions on the Further Implementation of “Artificial Intelligence+” Action. Acceleration should be made in building a new mode of smart economy and society characterized by the coordination between human beings and robots, the trans-sector integration and the collaborative creation and sharing, said in the Suggestions.Xin Guobin stated that “China’s artificial intelligence industry has a more and more solid foundation, together with the emergence of more and more artificial intelligence products and the more deeply-penetrating application”. China has developed over 35,000 elementary, over 6300 advanced and over 230 superior artificial intelligence factories, as well as 11 national pilot zones for artificial intelligence innovation and application and 17 national-level demonstration zones for intelligent connected vehicle (ICV) testing, Xin added.China has established a 60-billion-yuan investment fund for the artificial intelligence industry, formulated the management rules on artificial-intelligence-related science and technology ethics and services, formed China-BRICS Artificial Intelligence Development and Cooperation Center, and stipulated over 240 industrial standards of core artificial intelligence technologies, promoting the continuous optimization of the industrial ecology.“China’s artificial intelligence sector develops faster and faster”, an enterprise representative participating in the WSIF 2025 expressed. As an example, humanoid robot sector experienced product iteration every two years before, but every each year now, the enterprise representative added.“The sound development of China’s artificial intelligence could not only be attributed to its combination of the beneficial experiences learned from the industry-leading nations and its self advantages spanning the rich data resources, complete industry system, vast application market, extensive market space”, expressed by Wan Gang, chairman of China Association for Science and Technology.Reference: XinhuaNotice: we respect your intellectual property right and your other lawful rights. As any content here violates any of your lawful rights, please contact us, and we will delete related content.

10 5G factories of Shenzhen come to the nation’s Directory of 5G Factories 2025, including one in Longgang District

09-11, 2025

Recently, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the PRC released the Directory of 5G Factories 2025, which covers 560 businesses involving 48 industries.49 businesses of Guangdong Province come to the Directory, including 10 of Shenzhen.Shenzhen New Trend International Logis-Tech Co., Ltd (NTI), located in Longgang District, witnessed its industrial-internet and smart logistics 5G factory got listed on the Directory.Building 5G factories is of great importance for the large-scale development of “5G+ industrial internet”. During the recent years, great efforts have been made around the nation in accordance with the Guide for Building Fully 5G-Connected Factories, to further implement the strategies for the innovative development of industrial internet, to promote the quality development and large-scale application of “5G+ industrial internet”, to develop China’s branded 5G factories, and to accelerate the establishment of 5G factories. And, the efforts have achieved a great deal. Reference: Shenzhen Economic DailyNotice: we respect your intellectual property right and your other lawful rights. As any content here violates any of your lawful rights, please contact us, and we will delete related content.

Great enterprise service brings about the addition of about 84,000 enterprises since last July in Longgang District

09-02, 2025

At Longgang District Enterprise Service Conference held last July, the district promised to create an enterprise-centered business environment and develop strategic partnership with enterprises.Since last July, 84,000 additional enterprises have been located in Longgang District, pushing the total number of enterprises in the district to approximately 570,000.One of the contributors to the success should be the district’s high efficiency in responding to enterprises’ demands and helping to solve enterprises’ problems.Besides, the district strives to get concentrated on and facilitate enterprises’ “whole-life” development more accurately.This year, Longgang District establishes the “3+5” enterprise service mechanism, to better target the 5 services involving the support for the industrial chains, the convergence of productive factors, the supply of “industry+space” -related information, the globalization market and the business environment, at the 3 dimensions including the enterprises’ scale, life span and industrial orientation.Moreover, Longgang District could always offer practical, feasible and timely services as enterprises need, so that it could attract so great a number of enterprises. Reference: Publicity Department of Longgang District Committee of the Communist Party of ChinaNotice: we respect your intellectual property right and your other lawful rights. As any content here violates any of your lawful rights, please contact us, and we will delete related content.

China’s computing power scale records the annual increase of about 30%

08-27, 2025

The scale of the computing power in China has kept an annual increase of about 30% during the recent years, according to the related data. Together with the rapid development of the artificial intelligence, the demands for computing power grow sharply in the nation. Reference:CCTVNotice: We respect your intellectual property right and your other lawful rights. As any content here violates any of your lawful rights, please contact us, and we will delete related content.

Shenzhen’s foreign-trade value reached 2.17 trillion yuan in H1

08-21, 2025

During the first half of this year, Shenzhen’s imports and exports reached 2.17 trillion yuan, accounting for 9.9% of the nation’s total import-export volume, according to Shenzhen Customs District P.R. China.Specifically, Shenzhen’s exports over the period hit 1.31 trillion yuan, while the imports surged year on year by 9.5% to 858.86 billion yuan. The import and export volumes of the city both ranked first on the Chinese mainland, while the import volume reached the historical high.During the Jan-June period, Shenzhen’s imports and exports in general trading reached 1.19 trillion yuan, accounting for 54.8% of the city’s total import and export value over the same period. The Bonded Logistics conveyed a total import and export value of 585.44 billion yuan from this January to June, which increased year on year by 15.1% and accounted for 27% of the city’s total volume. The processing trade sector recorded the import-export volume of 381.54 billion yuan, which approximately equaled to that of the same period of last year and accounted for 17.6% of the city’s total import-export volume over the same period.From this January to June, the private sector in Shenzhen witnessed 1.51 trillion yuan of imports and exports, accounting for 69.8% of the city’s total foreign-trade volume. During the same period, the foreign-invested enterprises saw an increase of 9% in the import and export volume, which stood at 563.06 billion yuan and shared 26% of the city’s total number. Simultaneously, the state-owned enterprises in Shenzhen generated the import-export value of 89.14 billion yuan.In the first half, Shenzhen’s trade with the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) members reached a volume of 358.27 billion yuan. During the period, the city’s imports from and exports to the EU (European Union) members, the US, India and England totaled 218.29 billion yuan, 205.77 billion yuan, 41.76 billion yuan and 33.52 billion yuan respectively. The trade between the city with Public of Korea surged year on year by 6.4% to 121.11 billion yuan; that with Japan by 4.7% to 93.06 billion yuan; with Mexico by 2.7% to 32.55 billion yuan. Moreover, the city’s foreign-trade volume generated with the nations engaging in the Belt and Road Initiative reached 781.62 billion yuan in total, while the value of the trade between the city and other RCEP (Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership) member stood at 603.03 billion yuan.Reference: CCTVNotice: we respect your intellectual property right and your other legitimate rights. As any content here violates any of your legitimate rights, please contact us, and we will delete related content.

China’s goods import and export value totaled 3.91 trillion yuan in July

08-08, 2025

China’s goods foreign exchange hit 3.91 trillion yuan in July, presenting year-on-year growth of 6.7%. The growth went up 1.5% faster than the previous month, reaching the record high since this January, according to the data that the nation’s General Administration of Customs released on August 07.Hence, the nation’s goods import and export volume of the first 7 months in 2025 totaled 25.7 trillion yuan, surging year on year by 3.5%, at a growth rate 0.6% up from that of the first 6 months.The economy progressed steadily amid the external complexities, and the foreign trade sector maintained positive and promising momentum, expressed by Lv Daliang, the director of Statistical Analysis Department of the General Administration of Customs.During the first 7 months of this year, the nation’s export volume of mechanical and electrical products rose year on year by 9.3% to 9.18 trillion yuan, accounting for 60% of the total export volume over the same period. In detail, the export of the integrated circuit, automobile and automatic data processing apparatus and components, increased respectively by 21.8%, 10.9% and 1.1%.The private enterprises, from this January to this July, witnessed a year-on-year increase of 7.4% in the foreign trade volume, which stood at 14.68 trillion yuan totally. The private sector shared 57.1% of the nation’s total foreign trade, which went up 2.1% as compared with the January-July period of the previous year. The foreign-invested enterprises also recorded the growth of 2.6% in the imports and exports.During the first 7 months, the nation’s trade with ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) members, EU(European Union) members, African countries, Central Asian countries, respectively went up 9.4%, 3.9%, 17.2% and 16.3% on the year-on-year basis. Notably, the trade with ASEAN members and EU members generated nearly 33% of the total foreign trade value. Moreover, the imports from and exports to the economies involved in the Belt and Road Initiative surged by 5.5%.Reference: People’s DailyNotice: we respect your intellectual property right and your other lawful rights, as any content here violates any of your lawful rights, please contact us, and we will delete related content.

2025 World Robot Conference commenced on August 08

08-08, 2025

2025 World Robot Conference commenced on August 08 in Beijing and would last to August 12. With the theme of “making smarter robots and and embodied intelligence”, a series of events and activities, including the opening ceremony, forums, expos, competitions, closing ceremony, are scheduled to take place.The main forums at the conference would be centered on three themes: industrial development, innovation and application, and technological integration. Over 400 participants including international and domestic scientists, representatives of international organizations, academicians, entrepreneurs would engage in diverse forms of negotiations and exchanges, including themed speeches, top dialogues, on-the-scene display, around cutting-edged robot technologies, the industrial trend, the industrial practice and application, the innovation and achievements, and other similar topics.The expos would feature three exhibition halls respectively themed innovation, application and technology. Then at the expos would be over 1500 exhibits from over 200 international and domestic robot enterprises showcased, including over 100 debut products. The expos held during 2025 World Robot Conference would attract about 50 humanoid robot enterprises that would display their latest products and industrial solutions. Hence, the expos would witness the participation of most humanoid robot enterprises, among the ones of the sort.During the term of 2025 World Robot Conference, three competitions, including the robot challenge, BCI robot competition, and teenager robot design match, would be held, attracting over 10000 players of over 6000 teams across the world.Besides, over 31 activities would take place, centered on the themes, such as the innovation of robot application scenarios, the international cooperation, the technological breakthroughs, the standardized testing, the financing, the academic discussion, the talent development, during 2025 World Robot Conference spanning from August 08 - 12.Reference: Xinhua; Chinanews; cs.com under China Securities Journal;Notice: we respect your intellectual property right and your other lawful rights. As any content here violates any of your lawful rights, please contact us, and we will delete related content.

Shenzhen’s GDP reached 1832.226 billion yuan in H1

07-31, 2025

Shenzhen’s GDP (gross domestic product) reached 1832.226 billion yuan in the first half of this year, recording a year-on-year increase of 5.1% on the constant-price basis, according to the statistics over the GDP of the whole Guangdong Province, released by Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Statistics on July 30. The city achieved steady economic performance and made solid progress in the high-quality development in the first half of the year.On the industry-specific basis, the added value of the city’s primary industry (including agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishing) rose by 2.8% to 1.033 billion yuan, the added value of the secondary industry (spanning mining, manufacturing, electric power industry, heating industry, the production and supply of gas and water, construction industry) surged by 3.3% to 650.556 billion yuan, and the added value of the city’s tertiary industry (referring to the industries otherwise the primary and secondary industries) grew by 6.1% to 1180.637 billion yuan.The industrial production grew steadily. In the first half of the year, the city saw the value-added output of the above-designated-size industrial enterprises (whose main business revenue of a year reaches 20 million yuan) increase by 4.3% year on year, up 0.1% from that of the first quarter alone.The services sector presented the promising recovery. In the first half of the year, the city’s services sector boasted the value-added output of 1180.637 billion yuan, demonstrating the year-on-year growth of 6.1%, up 0.1% from that of the first quarter alone.The fixed-asset investment descended. In the first half of the year, the city’s investment in the fixed assets fell by 10.9% as compared with that of the previous year.The market sales achieved accelerated growth. In the first half of the year, the city’s total retail sales of consumer goods surged by 3.5% year on year to 494.868 billion yuan, at a rate 0.4% higher than that of the first quarter alone.The goods imports and exports recorded the narrowed decline. In the first half of the year, the city’s total import-export volume hit 2167.545 billion yuan, recording a year-on-year decrease of 1.1%, narrowed by 1.7% as compared with that of first quarter alone. Specifically, the total exports stood at 1308.681 billion yuan, down 7.0%, while the imports surged by 9.5% to 858.864 billion yuan.The financial institutions reported the steady growth in the deposits and loans. At the end of June, the balance of deposits in foreign and domestic currencies reached 14160.014 billion yuan at the city’s financial institutions (including the foreign-funded ones), which surged by 5.7% year on year, while the balance of the loans in foreign and domestic currencies totaled 9846.991 billion yuan, which increased by 3.5% year on year.The consumer prices edged up. In the first half of the year, the city’s consumer prices rose by 0.1% as compared with the same period of last year.Notice: some data above is from the related authorities.We respect your intellectual property right and your other lawful rights. As any content here violates any of your lawful rights, please contact us, and we will delete related content.