World Brand Lab Releases China's 500 Most Valuable Brands 2026

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Tencent, Huawei and Haier ranked the top three, with 146 Chinese brands valued at more than 100 billion RMBNEW YORK CITY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / June 24, 2026 / The 23rd World Brand Summit was held on June 24th in Beijing. The organizer, World Brand Lab, released the report of "2026 China's 500 Most Valuable Brands" list. In this annual report based on financial data, brand strength, and consumer behavior analysis, Tencent topped the list with a brand value of 639.24 billion RMB. Also among the top five are Huawei (617.58 billion RMB), Haier (616.30 billion RMB), ICBC (613.57 billion RMB), and PetroChina (612.87 billion RMB). These brands have entered the ranks of world-class brands. Academic authorities from Harvard University, Yale University, the University of Oxford, Peking University, together with a renowned American economist, attended the summit and delivered keynote speeches. They engaged in interactive discussions with 400 entrepreneurs and managers on the theme of "Future Brand Management: From Brand Equity to Brand Science".The total value of China's 500 Most Valuable Brands of 2026 is 45.29 trillion RMB, an increase of 3.26 trillion RMB or 7.76% over last year. The growth rate has continued to slow compared with previous years. Dr. Steve Woolgar, Chairman of the Academic Committee of World Brand Lab and WorldBrand.AI and Emeritus Professor of Marketing at the University of Oxford, said, "Over the past 20 years, I have witnessed the rapid growth of Chinese brands. Tencent, Huawei, Haier, ICBC, China Mobile, China Construction Bank, Tongwei, Shougang, Bosideng, Jingye, Feihe, M&G Stationery, JOMOO and Sungrow have become the best-performing brands of 2026. Looking ahead, AI is becoming a new decision interface for brands. Users are increasingly relying on AI-generated answers to discover, compare and choose companies, which is shifting brand competition from search ranking to answer inclusion. As a result, before users even enter a brand's own channels, brands may already face risks such as AI-generated misinformation, brand omission, ranking misalignment and sentiment drift."This is the 23rd year that World Brand Lab has compiled the China brand report. In 2004, the entry threshold was only 500 million RMB, and the average value of the top 500 brands was 4.94 billion RMB. In 2026, the entry threshold has been raised to 5.09 billion RMB, and th...

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