The 2025 Shanghai Top 100 Foreign-Invested Enterprises Conference was held on the 12th, where Huang Feng, President of the Shanghai Foreign Investment Association, explained that a total of 265 enterprises made it onto the 2024 Top 100 Foreign-Invested Enterprises list, an increase of 7 companies from the previous year. In terms of country and regional distribution, American, Japanese, and German companies continue to lead, together accounting for 55% of the total. Among them, Apple Computer Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. ranked first in total revenue, while Porsche (China) Motors ranked first in tax contributions.
According to the report, the total revenue of the Top 100 enterprises accounts for 31.16% of the total revenue of all foreign-invested enterprises in Shanghai that participated in the annual report; their total import and export volume accounts for 44.68% of the total among all foreign enterprises in Shanghai; their total tax contribution accounts for 31.75%; and their total employment accounts for 17.5%.
According to a report by The Paper, in terms of the country and regional distribution of overseas investors, US, Japanese, and German companies continue to lead, with the number of enterprises from these three countries occupying more than half of the list, reaching 55%. Among them, US-listed companies have ranked first for the fifth consecutive year, with a total of 87 companies making the list—4 more than the previous year.
From the perspective of regional distribution, Pudong New Area has 149 foreign-invested enterprises on the list, an increase of 12 compared to the 137 in 2023; 128 are registered in the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone, an increase of 10 compared to the 118 in 2023. Of the companies on the list from the Free Trade Zone, 9 are in the Lingang New Area, an increase of 4 compared to the 5 in the previous year.