Onwards and upwards for Chinese companies in 2013 “Fortune Global 500”. - There has been a sharp increase in the number of Chinese companies in the 2013 edition of the “Fortune Global 500” list, published every year by the US economic magazine Fortune. This lists the 500 most powerful companies in the world on the basis of their annual turnover. There were only 29 Chinese companies on the list in 2008, but now they make up a fifth of all companies in the list, 95 of the total of 500....