Text: San San
In 2020, China's total GDP reached $14.73 trillion, ranking second in the world, equivalent to 70.3% of the world's first United States. Compared with the total economic volume, a country's industrial production capacity and manufacturing level are more important. Since 2010, China's manufacturing value added has ranked first in the world for 11 consecutive years. From 2012 to 2020, the value added of manufacturing grew from 16.98 trillion yuan to 26.6 trillion yuan. Whether it is industry, or manufacturing, China is deservedly the world's first! China's manufacturing industry can also benefit from the rapid development of leading enterprises continue to grow.
Not long ago, the China Enterprise Confederation and the China Entrepreneurs Association jointly announced a "2021 China Manufacturing Enterprises Top 500 List". The list is based on the annual operating income of the national manufacturing enterprises ranked based on the location of the selected enterprises are mainly concentrated in Shandong, Zhejiang, Guangdong and other places. Who is the real "king of Chinese manufacturing"?
Huawei, which has been at the center of public opinion for the past two years, ranked second with an annual revenue of 891.368 billion yuan. Ren Zhengfei founded Huawei at the beginning, just selling user switches, now Huawei has grown into a global enterprise. The main business involves carrier networks, ICT infrastructure and smart terminals, the number of global terminal connections over 1 billion, with nearly 200,000 employees. The publicity slogan " Huawei, not just the world's top 500 " is to let users and the industry to see his ambition and desire.
Lenovo, which also has an Internet business, is ranked 13 this time around.Lenovo's PC business has been firmly in the top position in terms of global sales for the past few years, which is worth recognizing. However, Lenovo has been at the center of public opinion in recent years for "allegedly losing huge amounts of state assets," which has led to mixed reviews from the outside world. Now, Lenovo has returned to the public eye with its cost-effective and flagship chip debut strategy, and we'll see what the future holds for Lenovo.
Among the top five companies, there are two automotive groups, China First Automobile Group (FAW) and Shanghai Automotive Group (SAG). FAW ranked fifth with 697.425 billion yuan in revenue, since 1956, the manufacture of China's first liberation truck, has been more than 60 years of history, the existing staff of about 120,000 people, has been in the world's top 500 list for eight consecutive years, last year, vehicle sales of 3.706 million units, FAW has become one of the largest automotive enterprise groups in China. Shanghai Automotive Group ranked No. 3 on the list, last year's sales of 5.6 million vehicles, sales for 15 consecutive years to maintain the domestic first, new energy vehicle sales of 320,000 units, overseas market sales of 390,000 units, leading the domestic counterparts.
From the overall industry revenue and industry profits, heavy chemical industry is still the industry with the highest contribution rate.
The world's largest integrated building materials industry group, China National Building Materials Group, ranked 16, with annual revenue of 394.097 billion yuan. It is the world's leading developer of new materials and integrated service provider, and the group employs about 200,000 people. The scale of several businesses, including cement, glass, wind turbine blades, composite materials, refractory materials, and cement and glass engineering and technical services, is among the world's leading. It also has a chain of supermarkets for building materials and home appliances and a distribution center for Chinese building materials in Papua New Guinea, Australia, the United States, Hong Kong and other countries and regions.
Ranked 15th, Guangzhou Automobile Industry Group, annual revenue of 398.296 billion yuan. Headquartered in Zhujiang New City, Tianhe, Guangzhou, GAC employs nearly 100,000 people and has sold more than 18 million cars and 16 million motorcycles. It has cooperated with Toyota, Hino, Fiat, Chrysler and Mitsubishi, and has now become a large automobile group with a complete industrial chain. In addition, over the past 20 years since its establishment, the Group has insisted on participating in charitable and public welfare undertakings, and has been actively involved in such public welfare undertakings as village-enterprise pairing, disaster relief, poverty alleviation and helping the elderly and orphans, etc., and has been awarded as the "Most Caring Domestic Enterprise".
China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec), as a large petroleum and petrochemical conglomerate, is the world's largest oil refining company and the second largest chemical company, with a workforce of about 550,000 employees. The main business scope of the company includes exploration, mining, storage and transportation (including pipeline transportation), sales and comprehensive utilization of oil and natural gas, production and sales of coal chemical and other chemical products. The company's main business scope includes oil and gas exploration, mining, storage and transportation (including pipeline transportation, sales and comprehensive utilization), production and sales of coal chemical and other chemical products, R&D, manufacturing and sales of electromechanical equipment, international warehousing and logistics business and so on.
At the same time, the asset size of the shortlisted companies showed a relatively large increase, with a growth rate of 13.12%. Under the impact of the epidemic, the global economic downturn and other factors, asset turnover slowed down, but in the net profit scale, growth rate, net asset margin, operating income margin and other aspects of different degrees of growth, can be seen in the manufacturing industry leading enterprises of strong economic resilience.
China's manufacturing industry started late, at first many companies are taken to foreign learning, the introduction of the way, many experts said that the domestic enterprises "overly dependent" on foreign countries, now, the top 500 companies continue to rise in R & D investment, R & D intensity and R & D expenditure growth rate of 2.21% and 15.79%, respectively.
It can be seen that, with the increase in R&D efforts, the proportion of invention patents to the total number of patents has also increased, in which Huawei, as a leading enterprise, has achieved significant innovation results, played a leading role in the core, and the quality of corporate innovation has steadily improved.
In the industry, heavy chemical industry still dominates, but some advanced manufacturing industry also performs brightly, the total profit ranking of communications equipment manufacturing industry ranked No. 2, with a profit share of 9.24%. Among them, the epidemic affected the largest medical equipment manufacturing industry, profitability in recent years can also be significantly improved, the profit margin level of more than 50%, firmly in the first place.
From the regional distribution situation, the manufacturing industry distribution gap is large, the eastern region is still the core area of the development of the top 500, the central, western and northeastern regions, the number of enterprises in the smaller change. At the same time, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Bay Area and other key areas of the driving role is also apparent in the formation of a large number of advanced manufacturing clusters in the field of electronic information, rail transportation, engineering machinery, automotive and other areas.
From the distribution of enterprise provinces and cities, Shandong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Guangdong firmly occupy the top 4, respectively, 82, 77, 54 and 40 enterprises in the list, accounting for 50.6% of the total number of list, Shandong Province, the number of enterprises increased by 8 compared with the number of finalists last year, ranked first.
In the top 500, the development of private enterprises highlights the ability to increase the number of private enterprises with operating income of 100 billion to 45. In terms of operating income, net profit and asset share, private enterprises have grown considerably, and profitability is basically stable, becoming a strong force in the ranks of China's top 500 manufacturing enterprises.
China's manufacturing industry used to be big and weak, at the low end of the middle, but in recent years, the situation has changed dramatically, China's manufacturing industry has gradually upgraded to the middle and high end of the achievements are gratifying, in the latest release of the world's top 500 enterprises, China's industrial enterprises have 73 finalists.
Minister of Industry and Information Technology Xiao Yaqing said that the current need to accelerate the construction of a new industrial innovation ecosystem, focusing on breakthroughs in the "neck" technology bottlenecks; to play a solid core of basic parts and components, the key foundation of the software, the key foundation of the material, the work of advanced technology, and strive to make the weak industrial base to be further resolved. With the unique advantages of China's manufacturing industry, the future status of the manufacturing industry in the world will be higher and higher.