BEIJING, Sept. 12 (China Space News) --  A list of top 500 Chinese companies in 2017 was released jointly by China Enterprise Confederation and China Entrepreneur Association on Sunday.

Among these companies, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) ranked 73rd with revenue of 213.2 billion yuan.

This year, the 500 largest Chinese companies generated 256.1 trillion yuan (39.5 trillion U.S. dollars) in revenues and the threshold for companies to make the list rose sharply to 28.3 billion yuan (4.4 billion U.S. dollars).