POWERCHINA ranks 1st in 2023 list of "Top 150 Global Design Firms".
The rankings for this year's "Top 150 Global Design Firms" and "Top 225 International Design Firms" were released by the Engineering News-Record (ENR) in the United States on Aug 10.
POWERCHINA retained pole position in the former list for the fourth consecutive year and ranked 17th in the "Top 225 International Design Firms" .
For nine consecutive years, the company has held the top position among Chinese enterprises in both categories, securing its status as the world's leading design enterprise.
ENR is an authoritative academic journal in the global engineering and construction field, and its rankings are widely recognized as authoritative indicators of the annual international engineering market development, which have a significant influence within the international construction industry,
The "Top 150 Global Design Firms" rankings are based on the global revenue of design companies, focusing on their overall capabilities, while the "Top 225 International Design Firms" list is determined by the overseas business revenue of design companies, emphasizing their international business expansion capabilities.
POWERCHINA is a leading force in the global clean and low-carbon energy, water resources, and environmental protection construction sectors. It plays a key role in global infrastructure connectivity and also is a leading enterprise serving the Belt and Road Initiative.
POWERCHINA boasts nine national-level research institutions, 116 provincial and ministerial-level research platforms, nine academician workstations, and 11 postdoctoral workstations.
Its affiliated planning and design institute serves as a professional think tank in the national energy sector, providing planning and design services, reviews, quality supervision for ongoing hydropower projects, as well as research on clean renewable energy and power planning.
In the field of engineering survey and design, POWERCHINA possesses seven national-level design institutes and holds more than 40 categories and over 300 types of Class A qualification certificate.
As a global leader in engineering design, POWERCHINA undertakes over 80 percent of domestic river and hydropower station planning and design tasks, as well as more than 65 percent of wind and solar power project planning and design tasks.
It has established a comprehensive technical service system, technical standard system, and technological innovation system in the fields of hydropower, pumped storage, and new clean renewable energy, representing the country's comprehensive competitive strength.