In recent years, the boundaries between industry leaders and innovators have become increasingly blurred. These companies, leveraging their resource and market share advantages, as well as close collaboration with many startups or development teams, are gradually becoming important platforms for the commercialization of new technologies and business models. At the same time, relying on cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence and big data, as well as innovative business concepts, more and more industry giants are unleashing unprecedented innovation vitality and stronger industry resource integration capabilities, enabling them to lead industry iterations and upgrades more efficiently. As a result, the concept and practice of industry development leaders are gradually emerging and will play an increasingly important role in leading the future industrial pattern transformation in China and even globally.
With this understanding as a premise, at the end of November 2024, Frost & Sullivan (Frost & Sullivan, abbreviated as 'Frost & Sullivan') and Forbes China jointly launched the '2025 Forbes China Industry Development Leaders Selection'. The selection focuses on key areas such as AI technology, mass consumption, biomedicine, new energy, finance, internet services, etc. Leveraging the top resources and professional teams of both parties in industry research and media dissemination, through rigorous data analysis and in-depth market research, it aims to identify and commend outstanding enterprises and individuals with broad influence and innovative spirit in China and even globally.
Adhering to the principles of fairness, justice, and openness, on March 21, 2025, the evaluation committee meeting of the '2025 Forbes China Industry Development Leaders Selection' kicked off at the J Hotel in the Shanghai center. Thus, the months-long evaluation work of the '2025 Forbes China Industry Development Leaders Selection' has been successfully completed.
The following are the final selected enterprises and individuals for the '2025 Forbes China Industry Development Leaders Selection':
