preface
At present, in the new century, the struggle between enterprises of various countries has increasingly become an important part of measuring the strength of a country. Generally speaking, if a country has more influential companies, this will also reflect the economic strength of a country to some extent.
Fortune magazine publishes the world's top 500 companies every year, which has become the most valuable platform for large companies. Now, the measure of a country's size of power has also added an important indicator, namely the number of unicorn companies it owns.
And what is a unicorn company? In fact, a company needs to be established for no more than ten years, and it is currently in a leader or hegemonic position in a certain subdivision, and at the same time, the market valuation of the company is generally more than 1 billion US dollars or even 10 billion US dollars. Enterprises themselves should also have good development prospects and rapid growth of the industry.
For the world's top 500 enterprises, the number of unicorn enterprises is also an important indicator to measure the innovation ability and future development vitality of an enterprise or country.
According to the latest unicorn enterprise data released in 2021, it can be seen that among the 1058 unicorn companies on the list, the Number of 487 companies in the United States is on the list, ranking first; China is second only to the second, with 301 companies on the list; India has 54 companies on the list, ranking third. On the list released this time, Italy, as one of the top ten in the global GDP, does not have a unicorn company on the list.
Overall, the United States and China together accounted for 74 percent of the total, and in terms of growth alone, the United States increased by 254 and China increased by 74. It can be said that at present, the industrial innovation capabilities and emerging enterprises in China and the United States are very obvious and significant.
In the latest unicorn enterprise data released in 2021, among the top ten companies, ByteDance, Ant Group and Cainiao Group are among the three Chinese companies.
As a logistics company, Cainiao Group ranks ninth. In recent years, cainiao, as a network platform, has built its own huge and efficient logistics network around the world and continuously improved its logistics capabilities. Whether it is the domestic market or the international market, Cainiao Group is building logistics infrastructure similar to global logistics hubs, self-pick-up cabinets and so on, which has spread all over the world.
Especially internationally, Cainiao can also use its own efficient and extensive logistics network to achieve the transportation efficiency of "5 US dollars and 10 days", carry out rapid movement between 20 countries, and more than 240 aircraft will continue to travel back and forth between China and Europe every month.
Cainiao not only successfully entered the international logistics market with its own strength, let the world see China's logistics speed, but also gradually became an important backup support force for China in foreign trade.
The ranking of Ant Group is second. To date, Ant Group's value as the world's most valuable financial unicorn. It has reached $1 trillion. In 2021, Alibaba also became the largest incubator in China, with a total value of 124.95 billion yuan.
Of these unicorn companies with global reach, 50 were incubated by their parent companies, of which 49 were Chinese. Here, JD.com incubated three unicorns, and other companies similar to Didi, SF, and Haier also incubated 2 unicorn companies each.
Unlike China's strong unicorn incubation capabilities, Microsoft, Apple and Amazon have not hatched unicorns abroad.
This time, the company that successfully ranked first in the world among unicorn companies is not a large American company like Musk's SpaceX, but China's ByteDance, which is well known for launching Douyin and today's headlines.
From the domestic market, the average time people use Douyin is already five times that of playing games, and there is no doubt that it is the hegemon of the current Internet era. In foreign markets, the overseas version of Douyin has been downloaded more than 3 billion times worldwide.
To that end, it is also seen as the most promising social networking platform in the future, after Meta and Instagram, and the third largest social networking platform in the future. The world's largest unicorn emerges: at a valuation of 2.25 trillion, weighing on Ant Group and Musk SpaceX.
Judging from the existing data, ByteDance, which has only been established for 9 years, has become the world's first unicorn enterprise in 2021 with its own market appreciation of 1.73 trillion yuan and a market valuation of 2.25 trillion yuan.
Undoubtedly, judging from the list of global unicorns released this time, China has already walked ahead of many developed countries with its excellent innovation ability and competitive strength.
epilogue
Although among the top ten companies in the current global unicorn ranking, only two companies in China have a market value of more than one trillion yuan, ByteDance and Ant Group, this is enough to prove that the current strength of Chinese enterprises and China can not be underestimated. It is believed that in the future, more unicorn enterprises will be seen and excavated, so as to lead China to the peak of the world.
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