Fortune Global 500

More than 1,200 government and business delegations from 129 countries and regions and 30 international organizations showed up.

And one of the Fortune Global 500 company CEO told me his company has invested billions of dollars in China in the past decade.

and they will keep investing here in China in the next five years, because the market has something they see great potential, and that's why he flew all the way from Europe to attend this event.

And according to a bulletin jointly released by China's Ministry of Commerce and UN Trade and Development on Wednesday at the fair, in 2025, over 70,000 new foreign-invested enterprises were set up here in China, and that is a year-on-year increase of over 19%.

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Its net income is U.S. $4.57 billion, and its total equity in 2024 was U.S. dollars $25.771 billion.

It was ranked as number 143 on the Fortune magazine's Global 500.

In China, BYD is the largest employer in the country, outside of a few government-owned operations like the China National Petroleum Corporation.

Their workforce is double that of Toyota's with almost 900 people being employed by BYD around the world.

And there's a new world's largest company by annual revenue.

Amazon has officially overtaken Walmart, ending Walmart's long reign at the top of the Fortune Global 500.

Amazon generated $716.9 billion in revenue in 2025, narrowly beating Walmart's $713.2 billion, a difference of less than $4 billion.

The rise has been dramatic.

They're taking a bet, but they're betting that you won't have a car accident.

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Today's guest is a serial entrepreneur who helped bring Canada's online identity to life.

She's built a multimillion-dollar company that serves some of the country's largest corporations, governments, and Global Fortune 500 brands.

A Hall of Fame inductee among Canada's top 100 most powerful women, and a nine-time Profit 100 honoree, she serves as vice chair of the Royal Canadian Mint, along with many other board positions.

She's a columnist for Business in Vancouver, a TEDx speaker, and a second-generation Dale Carnegie graduate.

Solomon Tedla embodies not only the American dream, but African ingenuity, brilliance and commitment to the future.

A tenured executive with Global Fortune 500 firms in Southern California, he is an accomplished technologist and financier who brings a razor sharp business acumen to global ambitions.

Solomon leads an energy products manufacturer, Alhambra Technologies, in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, manifesting clean energy solutions in the largest untapped market globally.

Our guest