On July 19, Warton Economic Institute released the "CBT 500 Listed Companies in 2019" in Beijing, with a total of 500 companies listed on the list. The list of CBT 500 listed companies was first released in 2001, and has been released for 19 consecutive years. The list takes the total profit as the ranking benchmark, reflecting the essential requirements of enterprise development. All the listed enterprises are the most competitive profit-making enterprises, which are the real top 500 listed companies.

Ji Xiaonan, chairman of the forum and former chairman of the board of supervisors of key large state-owned enterprises under the State Council, Hou Yunchun, former deputy director of the development research center of the State Council, Hua Sheng, a famous economist, Cheng Lu, former vice chairman of the all China Federation of industry and commerce, Wang Wei, deputy secretary of the CPC Xishan District Committee and head of Xishan District, Wuxi City, Zhang Xiaoyu, executive vice president of China International Association for the promotion of multinational companies, Li Xiaojun, vice president of China Association for the promotion of industrial development, Yu Xingxi, Secretary General of Beijing Association of listed companies, and other leaders Experts and scholars, as well as more than 40 top 100 enterprises including CSCEC, Shanghai Pudong Development Bank, China pharmaceutical, China railway construction, China power construction, Guanghui automobile, Sany Heavy Industry, Sinopharm, Tongrentang, and Xinchao energy attended the meeting, and delivered keynote speeches and round table discussions on topics such as "strengthening and expanding enterprises", "scientific and technological innovation" and "system reform".

"The List of 2019 CBT 500 Listed Companies " shows that ICBC has topped the list with a total profit of 372.413 billion yuan for 10 consecutive years, and China Construction Bank, Agricultural Bank of China, Bank of China and Ping An of China ranked second to fifth, the same as last year. PetroChina, China Merchants Bank, Sinopec, Bank of communications and CSCEC ranked sixth to tenth. Among them, CSCEC, which is in a highly competitive industry, ranks among the top ten for the first time, which is particularly valuable. This year, the top 500 were listed on the list with RMB 1.074 billion, an increase of 7% over last year. Huabang health ranked 500th.

Shen Hanyao, executive chairman of CBT 100 Summit Forum and President of Warton Economic Institute, pointed out when releasing " The List of 2019 CBT 500 Listed Companies ", that this year's top 500 list companies has four characteristics that deserve attention:

1. Top 500 listed companies rose against the trend and played a prominent role as a mainstay

In the face of the complex and changeable economic situation at home and abroad and the new downward pressure on the economy, the top 500 listed companies still grew against the trend and created brilliant achievements. The total profit of the top 500 listed companies was 4428.8 billion yuan, an increase of 11% year on year; It accounted for 95% of the total profits (4679.6 billion yuan) of all listed companies in Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges, an increase of 6% year-on-year. Last year, the top 500 listed companies' operating revenue totaled 33743.2 billion yuan, an increase of 16% over the previous year, accounting for 37% of the national GDP, an increase of 2 percentage points over last year (35%), which fully shows that the top 500 listed companies are the strongest driving force to promote China's economic development and the backbone to resist external risks.

2. The number of listed companies in Western China has increased steadily, and listed companies in Beijing continue to take the lead

From a regional perspective, 69 of this year's top 500 are located in the western region, which has maintained steady growth for four consecutive years, 358 are located in the eastern region, and the eastern region still occupies an absolute dominant position. According to the analysis of provinces and cities, Beijing continues to rank first with 74 enterprises, Guangdong (70), Shanghai (56), Zhejiang (46), Jiangsu (39) and Shandong (24) rank second to sixth, and Shanghai has the largest increase in the number of enterprises on the list (an increase of 4), reversing the declining trend for consecutive years. From the perspective of inter city comparison, Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen (39) continued to rank the top three. The fourth to eighth cities are Nanjing (15), Guangzhou (14), Hangzhou (13), Chengdu (12) and Ningbo (10), with more than 10 enterprises on the list. Chengdu is the only city in the western region with more than 10 enterprises on the list.

3. The real estate industry has the largest number on the list, and the financial industry has the largest profit scale

By industry, the five industries with the largest number of listed companies in the top 500 are real estate (55), Finance (53, including 25 banks and 28 non bank finance), chemical industry (38), transportation (38) and pharmaceutical biology (36). The number of enterprises listed in the real estate industry increased by 3 over the previous year, surpassing the financial industry and ranking first in the industry.

From the perspective of profit scale, 53 listed companies in the financial industry have created a total profit of 2164.1 billion yuan, accounting for 49% of the total profit of the top 500 (4428.8 billion yuan), making them the most profitable industry. The enterprises listed in the building materials industry created a total profit of 65.6 billion yuan, an increase of 77% over the previous year, making it the industry with the fastest profit growth.

4. List of the most noteworthy: eight star listed companies worthy of praise

In addition to the " List of 2019 CBT 500 Listed Companies ", Warton Economic Institute also released the "Top 100 (global) listed companies in 2019", "Top 100 Chinese (GEM) listed companies in 2019", "Top 100 Chinese new third board listed companies in 2019" and "China's most growing listed companies in 2019". Among the various lists, the "ranking list of China's most growing listed companies in 2019" is particularly noteworthy. The companies on the list are all sustained high growth companies with a total profit of more than 100million yuan for three years and a growth rate of more than double digits. A total of 280 enterprises were listed this year, an increase of 27 over the previous year. More than 30% of the listed enterprises also ranked on the main list, reaching 104, making them one of the top 100.

Among the 104 high growth enterprises on the main list, eight star enterprises with a total profit of more than 20billion are particularly worthy of praise, namely Baosteel, China railway construction, conch cement, Gree Electric, Midea Group, Greenland holdings, Vanke and China Merchants Shekou.

At the press conference, President Shen Hanyao also officially announced that the 19th CBT 100 Summit Forum will be held in Shanghai from December 6 to 7. The forum will be jointly organized by the Organizing Committee of the CBT 100 Summit Forum, the China Council for the promotion of international transnational corporations, the China Association for the promotion of industrial development and the Warton Economics Institute. Leaders of the state and relevant ministries and commissions, well-known experts and scholars, top 500 listed companies and top 100 cities will also be invited to discuss China's enterprises and China's economic development plans. The forum will also solemnly commend the top 500 listed companies and entrepreneurs who have created the most wealth, In particular, the most innovative Chinese innovative enterprises and entrepreneurs will be commended. In order to further promote scientific and technological innovation, the CBT 100 Summit Forum will jointly hold the first global top 100 scientific and technological innovation competition with the top 500 listed companies, Zhongtai group and Wuxi, a top 100 City, with the theme of "global linkage, focusing on innovation, top 100 investment and focusing on Transformation", so as to promote the seamless connection between Chinese enterprises and the world's cutting-edge innovation achievements and push China's economy to the world's cutting-edge.