Recently, the Hurun Research Institute released the "Hurun Global 500 2023", ranking the world's top 500 non-state-owned enterprises according to their market value or valuation.A total of 33 Chinese companies are on the list. Among them, Li Auto entered the Hurun Global 500 for the first time with a valuation of 310 billion yuan, and became the youngest start-up company with OpenAI and Pinduoduo, both founded in 2015.
It is worth noting that in this list, Ideal is the new Chinese company with the highest market value and the only new car company on the list.
In addition, only three new energy vehicle companies, Li Auto, Tesla and BYD, are on the top 500 list this time.Li Auto’s valuation has surpassed that of Ford, General Motors, and Hyundai.
According to official data, Li Auto delivered a total of 376,030 vehicles in 2023, a year-on-year increase of 182.2%. This is the first time that a new Chinese auto company has passed the annual delivery mark of 300,000 vehicles.
As of January 31, 2024, Li Auto's cumulative delivery volume reached 664,529 vehicles, making it the new Chinese car company with the highest delivery volume.
2024 will be an unprecedented product year for Li Auto. There will be 4 extended-range models and 4 pure electric models. It will challenge the annual delivery of 800,000 vehicles and achieve the goal of ranking first in sales among luxury car brands in the Chinese market.