年度世界品牌500強揭曉 36家中國企業上榜

Apple tops the list of World's 500 Most Influential Brands for 2016, compiled by New York-based World Brand Lab and released last Monday.

總部位於紐約的世界品牌實驗室編纂並於上週一發布了《2016世界品牌500強》榜單，蘋果公司奪得了第一名的寶座。

Google and Amazon rank second and third respectively.

谷歌和亞馬遜分居第二、三名。

Thirty-six Chinese brands have made it onto the list this year. Among them, eight are in the top 100, including the State Grid Corporation of China (36), the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) (40), Tencent (43), China Central Television (CCTV) (62), Haier (76), China Mobile (79), Huawei (81) and Lenovo (90).

今年上榜的中國品牌有36個，其中8個進入前100名，包括國家電網(36)、中國工商銀行(40)、騰訊(43)、央視(62)、海爾(76)、中國移動(79)、華爲(81)和聯想(90)。

The 500 brands come from 28 different countries, among which nearly half, 227, are from the US.

500個品牌來自28個不同國家，其中近半(227個)來自美國。

They come mostly from 50 different industries including food and beverage, automobiles and auto components, media, retail, energy and the Internet.

它們大多來自50個不同的行業，包括食品和飲料、汽車和汽車零部件、媒體、零售、能源和互聯網。

American brands such as Chipotle, Texas Instruments and General Dynamics are on the list for the first time.

美國品牌如Chipotle、德克薩斯儀器公司和通用動力第一次出現在了該榜單上。

New Chinese firms on the list include Vanke, China Railway Engineering Corporation (CREC) and China Taiping Insurance.

而新上榜的中國公司則包括萬科、中鐵公司和中國太平保險。