On July 14th, the Chinese Website of the Fortune released the list of Top 500 Enterprises of China, Hubei Yihua Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. and Hubei Xingfa Chemicals Group Co., Ltd. are on the list. Among the 12 companies of Hubei Province on the list, only these two companies are in Yichang City, while the rest are in Wuhan City.

　　The website indicated that Hubei Yihua ranked 255 among the 500 enterprises. On the first half of 2014, based on the influence of domestic and international economic environment, chemical engineering and fertilizer industry remained weakness and its ranking dropped 29. Xingfa ranked 399, which is 8 positions higher than the previous year. In 2014, on the chemical engineering category of Fortune China Top 500 Enterprises List, Hubei Yihua ranked 7th, while Xingfa ranked 17th. Hubei Yihua has been on the list of Top 500 Enterprises in China for 5 years, and Xingfa for 3 years. (Reporter: Long Yizhou, Intern: Guo Feilong)