中国企业500强出炉 中石化居榜首

< align=left>The China Enterprise Confederation (CEC) has released its latest list of the country's top 500 companies.</P>< align=left>State-owned China Petrochemical Corporation, also called Sinopec, was the largest company by revenue, with 1.06 trillion yuan in 2006. It was the only company to top 1 trillion yuan.</P>< align=left>Foreign trade dealer Zhucheng Waimao Co Ltd ranked 500. The Shandong province-based company recorded 7.216 billion yuan.</P><P align=left>A total of 349 enterprises, or nearly 70 percent of the total in the list, were state-owned or state-controlled. Their combined assets reached 14.9 trillion yuan at the end of 2006, accounting for 85 percent of the total.</P><P align=left>Companies in the list witnessed a 23.7 percent increase in revenue and 25.9 percent hike in profits from the previous year.</P><P align=left>However, the money-earning performance of the 500 still falls far behind that of the world's top 500 as compiled by Forbes.</P><P align=left>China's top performers recorded a modest 4.72 percent on profit margin, lower than the average 7.32 percent of the world's top 500, the CEC report said.</P><P align=left>The return on equity of the top 500 was 10.1 percent, much lower than the 16.1 percent of the world's top 500.</P><P align=left>"The top 500 China is still mainly ranked in size instead of performance," Li Wei, deputy director of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council said.</P><P align=left>"That is a gap between China and developed countries."</P><P align=left>A total of 22 Chinese companies were among the world's top 500 in 2007. Sinopec, the largest company in China, ranked 17th.</P><P align=left>"China's top firms have still focused their business on traditional industries, mainly manufacturing," Yang Du, professor at Renmin University of China, said.</P><P align=left>As many as 280 companies, accounting for 56 percent of the top 500 are from manufacturing industries, and less than 30 percent are from service-related industries.</P><P align=left>China's top 500 have been continually expanding, with 131 of them, merging and acquiring some 408 other businesses last year.</P><P align=left>"But these merger and acquisition (M&amp;A) activities are mainly limited within the same industries and few of the M&amp;A deals are cross-industries," Yang said.</P><P align=left>The number of private-owned enterprises in the list rose to 89, with 1.4 trillion yuan of business revenue.</P><P align=left>中国企业联合会近日发布了“中国企业500强”最新榜单。</P><P align=left>国有企业中国石油化工集团公司（简称“中石化”，Sinopec）以去年1.06万亿元的营业收入名列榜首，同时，它也是中国唯一一个收入超过万亿的企业。</P><P align=left>山东诸城外贸有限责任公司以72.16亿元的营业收入位居第500位。</P><P align=left>近70%、共349个上榜企业是国有企业或国有控股企业。截至去年年底，这些企业的资产总额达1.49万亿元，占榜上所有企业资产总额的85%。</P><P align=left>与上一年度相比，中国500强企业的营业收入总额和利润额分别增长了23.7%和25.9%。</P><P align=left>然而，中国500强企业的盈利能力仍远不及《福布斯》的世界500强企业。</P><P align=left>报告指出，中国500强企业的利润率仅为4.72%，低于世界500强的平均水平7.32%。</P><P align=left>中国500强企业的资产收益率为10.1%，远低于世界500强的16.1%。</P><P align=left>国务院国有资产监督管理委员会副主任李伟说：“中国500强企业的排名主要还是依照企业规模而非盈利水平。”</P><P align=left>“这是中国与发达国家之间的差距。”</P><P align=left>2007年，中国共有22家企业跻身世界500强，我国最大的“中石化”集团名列第17位。</P><P align=left>中国人民大学的杨杜教授指出：“中国500强企业的经营范围仍集中在传统行业，主要是制造业上。”</P><P align=left>在500强企业中，制造业企业占56%，达到280家，而服务业企业的比例还不到30%。</P><P align=left>中国500强企业规模不断扩大，其中131个企业去年共兼并了408家经营单位。</P><P align=left>杨教授说：“但这些兼并主要局限于同一行业内部，很少有跨行业兼并。”</P><P align=left>今年，上榜的私营企业数量增至89个，营业收入总额达到1.4万亿元。</P>