The recently released list of top 100 private enterprises in Chongqing brings exciting news.
Data shows that Chongqing’s top 100 private enterprises achieved export scale of 54.7 billion yuan in 2024, representing a year-on-year growth of 62.93%. The top 100 manufacturing private enterprises reached an export scale of 56.934 billion yuan, growing 60.01% year-over-year.
These « top 100 » enterprises represent the elite of this vast group, reflecting the development level and trends of Chongqing’s private economy. In the first seven months, Chongqing’s private enterprises achieved total import and export volume of 210.05 billion yuan, growing 21.3% year-on-year, with 4,526 enterprises recording actual import and export activities, reaching a historical high.
The remarkable export performance of Chongqing’s private enterprises stems from the deep integration of multiple forces. Product innovation, market cultivation, and industrial chain upgrades serve as three powerful engines that collectively drive Chongqing’s private enterprises to compete globally.
Product Innovation Powers Journey to Value Blue Ocean
In an increasingly competitive global market, only differentiated products and leading technologies can establish a company’s foundation. Chongqing’s private enterprises refuse to remain confined to manufacturing alone, instead treating R&D investment as their passport to high-end markets. Through product innovation, they inject high added value into « Chongqing-made » products.
The new energy vehicle industry undoubtedly stands as the brightest star in this innovation wave. Ranking first on Chongqing’s 2025 top 100 private enterprises list, one company has made its electric vehicle series a major export product through continuous development in this field.
The company’s self-developed technology platform and third-generation intelligent driving system developed in partnership achieve end-to-end full-scenario integration, significantly enhancing product international competitiveness.
Through technological innovation, the company saw its new energy vehicle export unit price jump from $5,000 to $40,000 in 2024. In the first half of 2025, the company’s overseas revenue surged 145% year-on-year, with overseas sales proportion increasing from 6% in 2024 to 11%, making overseas business its highest gross margin segment.
Similarly, traditional motorcycle and general equipment giants no longer content themselves with conventional fuel-engine products. These established Chongqing private enterprises’ electric motorcycles and smart generator sets, integrated with smart chips, optimized battery technology, and green materials, precisely capture global market demand for efficient, environmentally sustainable products. « We’re not just providing transportation tools, but intelligent, green solutions that have won us more orders in Southeast Asian, Russian, and other markets. »
From automobiles to motorcycles, empowered by both technology and green concepts, Chongqing-made transportation vehicles are entering higher channels of the global value chain with unprecedented vitality. Particularly in key component fields, Chongqing private enterprises continue to deliver surprising technological innovation achievements. For example, one automotive electronics company successfully developed automotive-grade MCU chips that passed the highest safety level certification and entered mass production. These chips are widely used in multiple core systems including automotive body control, smart cockpits, and chassis safety, filling domestic gaps.
Beyond the automotive and motorcycle industries, Chongqing private enterprises also shine with innovation in electronics and biomedicine. At one smartphone production base, a foldable phone rolls off the production line every minute. The facility employs advanced information management systems that collect, monitor, and analyze production data in real time, with fully traceable digital manufacturing processes achieving over 99.9% yield rate. Through innovation, the company’s smartphone shipments remain among the global leaders.
Another representative private enterprise focuses on vaccine and biological product R&D and production. Benefiting from recovering global health demand in 2024, its self-developed influenza, HPV and other vaccine products passed rigorous international clinical trials, obtained international authoritative certification, and successfully sold to multiple countries.
Market Cultivation Weaves Global Network
After product innovation establishes core strength, market cultivation serves as Chongqing private enterprises’ second trump card. Companies no longer settle for « order-based » trade but actively expand into new market territories.
One group stands among the early « going global » enterprises. With branches established in Europe, South America, and Africa, this Chongqing private enterprise’s products have reached over 30 countries and regions worldwide.
While that group steadily expands overseas markets through physical presence, another company places greater emphasis on online channels. Using Amazon’s cross-border e-commerce platform as their breakthrough point, they fully launched operations across US, European, and Japanese sites, achieving 4 million yuan in sales in 2024, with B2B orders from French, Spanish, and Italian sites exceeding 10%. They project 2025 sales will surpass
