New Hope Group has been listed among the Fortune Global 500 for six consecutive years.

On July 28th, Fortune magazine officially released its 2026 Fortune Global 500 list, with New Hope Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "New Hope") ranking 480th with operating revenue of US$34,462 million. This marks New Hope's sixth consecutive appearance on the Fortune Global 500 list since entering in 2021. Simultaneously, New Hope was also selected for Fortune's list of most admired Chinese companies this year, its fifth time receiving this honor.

New Hope is a private enterprise group primarily engaged in modern agriculture, animal husbandry, and food industries. Having thrived alongside China's reform and opening-up, it now boasts world-leading feed production capacity and China's leading meat processing capabilities, making it one of China's largest integrated suppliers of meat, eggs, and dairy products.

Faced with the profound adjustments in the pig industry in recent years, New Hope has focused on "innovation, quality, and service," viewing the industry adjustment period as a strategic window for improving quality and efficiency, and upgrading its industry. It has concentrated on three main lines: "biological breeding, digital upgrading, and overseas expansion," honing its internal strengths and comprehensively restructuring its long-term profit model.

In bio-breeding, New Hope has successfully developed 10K low-density liquid-phase SNP chips and 60K high-density solid-phase SNP chips with independent intellectual property rights. This marks the complete localization of gene detection chips in whole-genome selection technology, driving pig breeding from experience-based to data-driven intelligence. In intelligent farming, New Hope has fully implemented AI-based weight estimation, intelligent feeding, online disease monitoring, and a digital pig farm management system, and launched the AI veterinarian "Pig Xiaoxin," effectively reducing costs and increasing efficiency through smart farming. Regarding feed efficiency, New Hope leverages its global advantages to develop comprehensive feed-saving solutions, effectively conserving grain consumption and reducing farming costs.

New Hope maintains product quality through rigorous testing of feed ingredients

Furthermore, overseas markets continue to maintain growth in both volume and profit. In 2025, the overseas feed business grew by 21% year-on-year, maintaining its leading market share in Egypt, Laos, and Cambodia, becoming the third growth engine after domestic feed and pig farming. This dual-market strategy significantly enhances the company's operational stability.

In recent years, New Hope Group has vigorously strengthened its "digital intelligence" upgrade, promoting the application of artificial intelligence and robotics technologies in real-world scenarios, while developing new business models such as digitally-intelligent cold chain logistics to meet new consumption demands. Currently, its Fresh Life Cold Chain has completed its digital intelligence upgrade, building a distribution network covering 31 provinces and 2,800 districts and counties, with over 400,000 cold chain vehicles connected to the network, serving over 1.3 million stores, and delivering over 20 million tons of various ingredients annually. In 2026, it was selected as a member of the working group of the National Artificial Intelligence Standardization Technical Committee of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

Fresh Life Food Supply Chain Distribution Center

To meet diverse market demands, New Hope Group continuously applies new technologies and applications to tangible practices that make "a pig stronger, a cup of milk fresher, and a piece of meat more fragrant," constantly enabling new quality productivity to play a key role in concrete actions. For example, New Hope Group has adapted to the shift in consumer demand from "eating enough" to "eating well" and "eating fresh," utilizing modern technology to optimize and upgrade the taste of its products, launching popular products such as 24-hour fresh milk and "Youyan Youwei" tree tomato hot pot base, which have received high praise from consumers.

For many years, New Hope Group has always taken responsibility and integrated its development into rural revitalization. Since its inception, New Hope Group has adhered to the "Glorious Cause" initiative—from launching the Glorious Cause, the 4+N targeted poverty alleviation program, and training 100,000 green-collar new farmers, to the "Five-Five Project" for rural revitalization, the "Village Chief Class," and the recently proposed "Seed Plan," consistently focusing on the most urgent needs of rural development. The "Seed Plan" is an upgrade of New Hope Group's "Village Chief Class" for rural revitalization, exploring a shift from "short-term intensive training" to "long-term ecological empowerment," embedding modern agricultural genes into rural development, and allowing new productive forces to play a greater role in the vast countryside.

Liu Yonghao interacting with students during the first lesson of the 5th Rural Revitalization "Village Chief Class"

In the future, New Hope will continue to focus on its core agricultural and animal husbandry businesses, continuously strengthen agricultural technology and the upgrading of the entire industrial chain, rely on the consumer goods sector to steadily improve its operations, and use its real economy to support rural revitalization and agricultural modernization.