Forbes Global 2000: China’s Largest Companies
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The Forbes Global 2000 is an annual list of the world’s 2000 largest publicly listed corporations. Below is a compilation of Chinese companies featured on the list in 2013.
The values on the list were last updated on May 2013. All figures are consolidated and in US dollars.
In total, there were 136 Chinese companies on the 2013 Forbes Global 2000 list. Collectively, the companies had a combined market value of $2.762 trillion, with $17.217 trillion in assets; generating $3.018 trillion in revenues and $275.5 billion in profits.
The Forbes Global 2000 is an annual list of the world’s 2000 largest publicly listed corporations. Below is a compilation of Chinese companies featured on the list in 2013.
The values on the list were last updated on May 2013. All figures are consolidated and in US dollars.
In total, there were 136 Chinese companies on the 2013 Forbes Global 2000 list. Collectively, the companies had a combined market value of $2.762 trillion, with $17.217 trillion in assets; generating $3.018 trillion in revenues and $275.5 billion in profits.
Click on the companies’ names to find out more information on the company, including the type of industry it is in and its listing name in the stock exchange.
Alternatively, you can browse other Forbes Global 2000 companies, by country, at the end of this article.
| Global Rank | Company | Sales ($billion) |
Profits ($billion) |
Assets ($billion) |
Market Value ($billion) |
| 1 | ICBC | 134.8 | 37.8 | 2813.5 | 237.3 |
| 2 | China Construction Bank | 113.1 | 30.6 | 2241 | 202 |
| 8 | Agricultural Bank of China | 103 | 23 | 2124.2 | 150.8 |
| 9 | PetroChina | 308.9 | 18.3 | 347.8 | 261.2 |
| 11 | Bank of China | 98.1 | 22.1 | 2033.8 | 131.7 |
| 26 | Sinopec-China Petroleum | 411.7 | 10.1 | 200 | 106.9 |
| 54 | Bank of Communications | 43.5 | 9.4 | 846.4 | 56.7 |
| 83 | Ping An Insurance Group | 51.1 | 3.2 | 456.2 | 57 |
| 101 | China Merchants Bank | 28.4 | 7.3 | 547 | 44.1 |
| 106 | China Life Insurance | 63.2 | 1.8 | 304.6 | 79.9 |
| 107 | China Minsheng Banking | 27.9 | 6.1 | 515.5 | 43.9 |
| 115 | China Shenhua Energy | 39.7 | 7.7 | 70.2 | 70.8 |
| 125 | Shanghai Pudong Development | 25.4 | 5.4 | 504.5 | 31.6 |
| 128 | China Citic Bank | 24.4 | 4.9 | 474.7 | 32.5 |
| 139 | China Telecom | 44.9 | 2.4 | 87.4 | 42 |
| 142 | Industrial Bank | 18.7 | 4.1 | 382.3 | 38.2 |
| 167 | SAIC Motor | 75 | 3.3 | 48.1 | 26.7 |
| 206 | China State Construction | 76.7 | 2.2 | 79.9 | 16.9 |
| 226 | People’s Insurance Company | 41.3 | 1.1 | 110.5 | 24.4 |
| 240 | China Everbright Bank | 13.5 | 2.9 | 275.1 | 21 |
| 278 | China Pacific Insurance | 27.3 | 0.8 | 109.3 | 28.6 |
| 280 | China Communications Construction | 45.7 | 1.9 | 69.6 | 12.9 |
| 283 | Ping An Bank | 13.2 | 2.2 | 257.3 | 18.3 |
| 314 | China Vanke | 15.5 | 2 | 60.3 | 18.9 |
| 316 | China Railway Construction | 74.5 | 1.3 | 77.1 | 10.4 |
| 322 | China Railway Group | 76.7 | 1.2 | 88.4 | 10.2 |
| 370 | Baoshan Iron & Steel | 35.4 | 1.2 | 36.7 | 13.4 |
| 404 | Huaneng Power International | 21.1 | 0.9 | 41.2 | 14.9 |
| 407 | Huaxia Bank | 10.5 | 1.5 | 197.2 | 11.5 |
| 473 | China Coal Energy | 13.6 | 1.5 | 29.5 | 12.2 |
| 488 | Bank of Beijing | 6.3 | 1.4 | 151.7 | 13.1 |
| 503 | Dongfeng Motor Group | 19.7 | 1.4 | 19.2 | 11.8 |
| 507 | Poly Real Estate | 9.6 | 1.3 | 40.3 | 12.2 |
| 508 | New China Life Insurance | 18 | 0.5 | 79.2 | 11.8 |
| 591 | Tencent Holdings | 7 | 2 | 12.1 | 65 |
| 628 | China National Building | 13.8 | 0.9 | 31.2 | 7.5 |
| 635 | Daqin Railway | 7.2 | 1.9 | 14.9 | 18.7 |
| 639 | Datang International Power | 12.2 | 0.6 | 42.4 | 8.4 |
| 648 | Evergrande Real Estate | 10.3 | 1.5 | 31.1 | 6.9 |
| 650 | Jiangxi Copper | 25 | 0.8 | 12.5 | 10.8 |
| 653 | China Shipbuilding Industry | 9.2 | 0.7 | 25.3 | 12.1 |
| 668 | Gree Electric Appliances | 13.3 | 0.8 | 13.5 | 13.5 |
| 674 | Yanzhou Coal Mining | 9.2 | 1 | 18 | 11.8 |
| 692 | Lenovo Group | 29.6 | 0.5 | 15.5 | 10.4 |
| 710 | CSR | 14.1 | 0.6 | 16.8 | 9.9 |
| 728 | Anhui Conch Cement | 7.2 | 1 | 14 | 15.9 |
| 740 | China Yangtze Power | 3.3 | 1.2 | 25.2 | 19.4 |
| 774 | Sinohydro Group | 18 | 0.6 | 25.8 | 5.5 |
| 779 | Zoomlion Heavy Industry | 7.6 | 1.2 | 13.8 | 10.5 |
| 783 | Country Garden Holdings | 6.6 | 1.1 | 21.9 | 8.2 |
| 798 | Citic Securities | 2.2 | 0.7 | 27 | 23.1 |
| 799 | GD Power Development | 8 | 0.6 | 29.2 | 8 |
| 830 | Metallurgical Corp of China | 34.1 | -1.1 | 56.2 | 5.9 |
| 848 | Shanghai Electric Group | 12.1 | 0.4 | 18.3 | 8 |
| 851 | Sany Heavy Industry | 8.1 | 1.4 | 8.1 | 13 |
| 853 | Aluminium Corp of China | 23.7 | -1.3 | 28.7 | 8.4 |
| 859 | China Southern Airlines | 15.7 | 0.4 | 18.3 | 8 |
| 863 | China CNR | 14.2 | 0.5 | 15.4 | 7.2 |
| 868 | China Eastern Airlines | 13.5 | 0.5 | 19.4 | 5.7 |
| 880 | Zijin Mining Group | 7.6 | 0.8 | 10.8 | 10.8 |
| 896 | Suning Appliance | 14.9 | 0.8 | 9.4 | 7.4 |
| 934 | Kweichow Moutal | 3.8 | 2.1 | 6.2 | 29.6 |
| 952 | Sinopharm Group | 21.5 | 0.3 | 12.8 | 8 |
| 957 | Great Wall Motor | 6.6 | 0.9 | 6.8 | 14.3 |
| 960 | Baidu | 3.5 | 1.7 | 7.3 | 29.7 |
| 965 | Longfor Properties | 4.4 | 1 | 16.8 | 8.6 |
| 969 | Haitong Securities | 1.6 | 0.5 | 20.3 | 16.7 |
| 991 | Chonqing Rural Bank | 3.6 | 0.8 | 69.6 | 5 |
| 1008 | Tingyi Holding | 9.2 | 0.5 | 7.5 | 15 |
| 1012 | Sun Art Retail Group | 12.3 | 0.4 | 7.2 | 13.9 |
| 1019 | Fosun International | 8.2 | 0.6 | 26 | 4.1 |
| 1028 | Shanghai International Port | 4.5 | 0.8 | 13.3 | 9.8 |
| 1045 | China Cosco Holdings | 14 | -1.5 | 26.5 | 6.4 |
| 1073 | Shimao Property Holdings | 4.5 | 0.9 | 19.2 | 5.9 |
| 1111 | China Oilfield Services | 3.5 | 0.7 | 12 | 11.1 |
| 1145 | Wuliangye Yibin | 3 | 1 | 5.9 | 14.7 |
| 1151 | Weichai Power | 7.6 | 0.5 | 10.6 | 7 |
| 1163 | Henan Shuanghui Investment | 6.3 | 0.5 | 2.7 | 12.6 |
| 1165 | ZTE | 13.3 | -0.4 | 16.4 | 6.5 |
| 1177 | Hebei Iron & Steel | 21.2 | 0.2 | 22.8 | 4.1 |
| 1181 | Inner Mongolia Yitai | 5 | 1 | 6.4 | 8.7 |
| 1187 | Bank of Ningbo | 2.4 | 0.5 | 41.3 | 4.9 |
| 1191 | Greentown China Holdings | 5.6 | 0.8 | 17.3 | 3.2 |
| 1197 | Guangzhou R&F | 4.8 | 0.9 | 15.8 | 4.8 |
| 1218 | Qingdao Haier | 12.6 | 0.5 | 8 | 5.4 |
| 1227 | Want Want China | 3.4 | 0.6 | 3.5 | 19.8 |
| 1246 | Bank of Nanjing | 2.2 | 0.5 | 44.7 | 4.4 |
| 1262 | Sino-Ocean Land Holdings | 4.6 | 0.7 | 20.2 | 3.5 |
| 1288 | Huadian Power International | 9.4 | 0.2 | 26.4 | 4.8 |
| 1312 | China Merchants Property | 3.3 | 0.5 | 17.5 | 6.1 |
| 1322 | Jiangsu Yanghe Brewery | 2 | 0.6 | 2.9 | 12.4 |
| 1333 | China Longyuan Power | 2.7 | 0.4 | 17.3 | 7.2 |
| 1337 | GF Securities | 1 | 0.3 | 12.2 | 13.9 |
| 1342 | Wuhan Iron & Steel | 16.1 | 0.2 | 15.5 | 4.5 |
| 1347 | Agile Property Holdings | 4.8 | 0.8 | 14.7 | 4 |
| 1371 | Soho China | 2.5 | 1.7 | 12.6 | 4 |
| 1385 | Inner Mongolia Rare-Earth | 1.8 | 0.6 | 2.2 | 11.8 |
| 1388 | Shenzhen Overseas | 3 | 0.6 | 11.7 | 6.7 |
| 1418 | Shanghai Construction | 14.5 | 0.3 | 13.3 | 2.7 |
| 1431 | BYD | 7.4 | 0 | 11 | 8.3 |
| 1436 | Angang Steel | 12.3 | -0.7 | 16.2 | 4.1 |
| 1443 | Shanxi Taigang Stainless | 15.3 | 0.3 | 10.5 | 3.1 |
| 1446 | Yang Quan Coal Industry | 8 | 0.4 | 4.4 | 5.4 |
| 1447 | Hengan International Group | 2.4 | 0.5 | 3.8 | 11.9 |
| 1455 | Shanghai Pharmaceuticals | 10.8 | 0.3 | 8.1 | 5.6 |
| 1485 | China National Chemical | 6.9 | 0.4 | 7.2 | 6.7 |
| 1506 | New Hope Liuhe | 11.4 | 0.4 | 3.5 | 3.6 |
| 1513 | BBMG | 5.1 | 0.5 | 13.3 | 4.4 |
| 1519 | Huatai Securities | 1.3 | 0.3 | 13.6 | 9.5 |
| 1528 | Xiamen C&D | 12.8 | 0.4 | 8.2 | 2.3 |
| 1529 | China International Marine | 8.6 | 0.3 | 10.3 | 4.9 |
| 1534 | China Merchants Securities | 1.1 | 0.3 | 10.9 | 9.7 |
| 1544 | Hunan Valin Steel | 11.7 | 0 | 13.6 | 1 |
| 1553 | China Communications Services | 9.8 | 0.4 | 7.2 | 4.7 |
| 1568 | Dongfang Electric | 6 | 0.3 | 12.6 | 4.7 |
| 1592 | Inner Mongolia Yili | 6 | 0.3 | 3.2 | 8.9 |
| 1610 | Maanshan Iron & Steel | 11.8 | -0.6 | 12.2 | 2.3 |
| 1613 | TCL Corp | 11 | 0.1 | 12.8 | 3.4 |
| 1613 | Shandong Gold-Mining | 6.3 | 0.3 | 2 | 7.6 |
| 1631 | Netease | 1.3 | 0.6 | 3.1 | 6.8 |
| 1631 | Jizhong Energy Resources | 6 | 0.5 | 6 | 4.9 |
| 1648 | Minmetals Development | 25.7 | 0.1 | 7.6 | 2.6 |
| 1680 | Gemdale | 3.8 | 0.5 | 14.3 | 4.3 |
| 1734 | China Gezhouba | 8.3 | 0.2 | 12.3 | 2.9 |
| 1745 | Great Wall Technology | 15.2 | 0 | 8.5 | 0.2 |
| 1773 | Luzhou Laojiao | 1.3 | 0.5 | 1.9 | 6.6 |
| 1833 | Hainan Airlines | 4.4 | 0.3 | 14.9 | 4.5 |
| 1833 | China Hongqiao Group | 3.9 | 0.9 | 7.1 | 3 |
| 1847 | Zhongjin Gold | 5.3 | 0.3 | 3 | 6.9 |
| 1864 | Shanxi Lu’an Environmental | 3.1 | 0.4 | 6.4 | 6.7 |
| 1866 | Qinghai Salt Lake | 15.2 | 0.4 | 4.7 | 6.8 |
| 1906 | Inner Mongolia Baotou Steel | 6.8 | 0.1 | 7.9 | 6.4 |
| 1916 | Shanghai Material Trading | 12.8 | 0 | 1.5 | 0.3 |
| 1944 | Tongling Nonferrous Metals | 12.2 | 0.1 | 5.9 | 3.9 |
| 1948 | Hikvision | 0.8 | 0.2 | 1.3 | 12.3 |
All Forbes Global 2000 Companies – By Country
