Today, China is one of the fastest-growing countries in the world, and the number of top companies on the mainland is also growing, which is directly proportional to economic development.
A large number of Chinese companies have gradually become Fortune 500 companies in the past 20 years.
These companies often have a very large business advantage in all walks of life.
They are not only well-known in China, but also have business activities around the world, so they are recognized as large multinational enterprises.
In Fortune magazine, there are quite a few Chinese companies on the list.
Let's give you a brief introduction today, among the world's top 500 companies ranked in Fortune magazine, how many are there in China?
Which companies can successfully make the list, and which country has the largest number of top 500 companies now?
First, the United States has an advantage
According to the current ranking of the world's top 500 companies, there are three countries with an almost absolute advantage, namely China, the United States and Japan.
Let's start with the United States, where a total of 136 companies are listed in the world's top 500.
Most of the companies on the list in the United States are large technology companies, such as Microsoft, Facebook, and before Twitter, as well as Space X.
Most of these companies have great influence in a certain field, and even work in some key industries.
For example, Facebook is engaged in social software; Space X is in a spaceship.
A top company like Microsoft is a world-renowned electronic software and hardware design and manufacturing company, and its influence in business and science and technology is very huge.
But we need to see that the corporate influence of the United States is indeed declining.
Because the 20 years after the end of the Cold War were the peak of American national power.
In 2002, the United States had a staggering 198 Fortune 500 companies.
The United States alone owns nearly 40% of the world's top 500 companies.
At that time, these American companies were able to generate tens of trillions of dollars in overall revenue every year, and the United States' control over the international economy was very high.
Through these transnational conglomerates, the U.S. government is even able to manipulate the politics of certain countries.
But now 22 years have passed, and the number of Fortune 500 companies in the United States has dropped from 198 to 136, a decrease of more than 60.
In other words, it is almost 1/3 less.
Even some of the world's top 500 companies, which were very famous in the past, have now been acquired.
Especially those manufacturing enterprises in the United States, none of them are having a good time now.
Almost all of the top 500 companies on the list in the United States are financial companies and technology companies.
The number of real brick-and-mortar manufacturing companies is quite scarce, which reflects the current state of the US economy.
The United States is almost relying on the financial industry and the technology industry to make money, and there is not much real industry left.
But companies like the financial industry and the technology industry, while theoretically American, are more like international companies.
Financial companies and technology companies themselves do not have manufacturing industry lines, and the focus is on scientific and technological R&D personnel and technical employees.
In other words, as long as they want, they can move their industries to any country anytime and anywhere.
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Only the real physical manufacturing industry will not leave the United States, but in the era of industrial hollowing out in the United States, there is no physical manufacturing anymore.
This is also the fundamental reason why the United States has been in a severe recession in recent years.
It all depends on the virtual economy to make money, but the real economy is the foundation of the virtual economy.
Even if the foundation is not stable, how well can their virtual economy develop?
In the past five years, the total economic output of the United States has grown rapidly every year.
It didn't take a few years for the total economic volume to rise from a total economic volume of more than $20 trillion to a total of $2.7 trillion in economic aggregates.
However, ordinary people in the United States still cannot afford to buy goods, find jobs, or eat.
Because it is the top rich people who really make money, but the wealth in the hands of ordinary Americans is constantly shrinking.
The gap between rich and poor in the United States has also widened.
Second, there are many large enterprises in Japan
Compared to the United States, Japan's overall economic conditions are actually a little better.
However, the number of top large companies in Japan is indeed small, and in 2023, there are only 41 of the world's top 500 companies left.
Unlike American companies, many of the Japanese companies on the list are still large manufacturing companies, such as automobile manufacturers, game hardware manufacturing companies, and so on.
Therefore, in the era of industrial renewal, Japan has inevitably seen some hollowing out.
A large number of low- and mid-end manufacturing industries have moved out of Japan to China, Southeast Asia, and South Asian countries.
But Japan's top decision-makers are more rational, and they have not completely abandoned the existence of manufacturing.
Relying on the manufacturing real economy, Japan's economy has shown stronger stability.
In the past two years, the Federal Reserve has continued to raise interest rates, and although the yen has been affected, at least the Japanese economy has not collapsed at this stage.
However, Japan also has its own problem, that is, the number of high-end companies is indeed decreasing.
After the end of World War II, Japan developed rapidly with the help of industrial funds and technology transfers from the United States.
Even during the Cold War, it surpassed the Soviet Union and became the world's second largest economy.
At that time, the Japanese were definitely the leaders of the global economy.
At its peak, Japan had a total of 141 companies that reached the top 500 in the world.
However, as Japan threatened the United States in the economic and financial fields, the United States directly attacked Japan, and the United States forced Japan to sign the Plaza Accord.
After the signing of the "Plaza Accord", Japan's economic bubble was punctured, and the Japanese government tried its best to protect the entity, the property market, and the stock market, but the price was that the Japanese economy entered a 30-year period of pain.
Many Japanese companies that started out in the manufacturing and technology industries have also gone bankrupt or been swallowed up by other companies in the painful 30 years.
Even Toyota Nissan, a nationally proud company of the Japanese, has been acquired by a foreign company.
The end result is that although Japan has maintained its own manufacturing industry, which has given their economy a strong stability, it has also lost the prospect of development.
The number of top Japanese companies is decreasing.
For Japan today, reversing its declining development will require a top-down economic reform and free from US control.
As long as the United States continues to ride on Japan's head for a day, there is little hope for Japan to become independent and revitalize its economy.
Third, China is developing rapidly
Unlike Japan and the United States, China's development speed is very fast, in the 90s of the last century, only two or three mainland companies were listed in the world's top 500.
However, in just 20 years, a large number of top business conglomerates have emerged in China.
In 2023, China has a total of 142 companies ranked in the world's top 500, which is eight higher than the United States.
For the second year in a row, China has become the number one country in the wealth rankings.
This is in line with the fact that China's economy is developing rapidly and all the large number of companies are making money.
And now China's economy is still developing, and China's economy does not have the same problems as the United States and Japan.
First of all, there is no hollowing out of the industry, and we have a very complete industrial line.
Whether it is low-end manufacturing or high-end manufacturing, we have it, but the development is unbalanced.
Moreover, China's economic autonomy is very strong, and it does not need to take into account the opinions of other countries when developing.
This is the fundamental reason why the United States can no longer use a Plaza Accord to contain China.
Moreover, in the foreseeable future, the development of Chinese enterprises will become faster and faster, and the number of Chinese enterprises that can enter the world's top 500 will also increase.
But what we have to see is that most of the Chinese companies that can now be on the list are traditional manufacturing companies, or financial companies.
For example, mining companies, construction companies, and major banks, on the contrary, there are not many Chinese technology companies that can make the list.
In other words, what we need to do in the future is to focus on science and technology enterprises, support science and technology enterprises, and let more and more science and technology enterprises enter the world's top 500.
Chinese enterprises can't rely only on traditional manufacturing and traditional industries to support it.
In this way, everyone should understand that China, the United States and Japan have a large number of enterprises in the world's top 500.
To some extent, the three countries are complementary.
On the Japanese side, there are both manufacturing companies and technology companies; Our side is dominated by manufacturing enterprises and financial industries; In the United States, there are no manufacturing companies, most of them are financial companies and technology companies.
Combined, the three countries do have a near-monopoly advantage.
The total number of Fortune 500 companies owned by China, the United States and Japan has exceeded 300, that is, accounting for more than 60% of the total, which is already a very staggering number.
Of course, this is also in line with the economic situation, after all, China, the United States and Japan have been among the top three economies in the world for a long time, and the Japanese economy has been surpassed by the German economy in the past two years.
Therefore, for a long time to come, the development of the world economy will be centered on the three major economic powers of China, the United States and Japan.
Epilogue:
A ranking list of the world's top 500 companies, of course, cannot measure all the economic data of a country, but it can prove the wealth of a country and the degree of business development.
At present, China and the United States must be among the top in the world in terms of business development.
Below China and the United States is Japan, and the rest of the countries are the only ones.
Combined, China, the United States, and Japan have formed a cliff-like crushing advantage over other countries.
With the continuous development of China, the United States, Japan and other countries, I am afraid that more and more enterprises from the three countries will enter the world's top 500.
After all, the three countries have too many advantages in the fields of economy, industry, science and technology.
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