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Homegrown conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa has finally edged into the world's top 500 firms, joining 14 other mainland or Hong Kong-listed companies on the  Fortune 500 list.

Li Ka-shing's flagship ranks 407  on the  list, released yesterday, with a revenue of HK$145.61 billion last year.

Hutchison, the world's first 3G operator and largest private port investor, narrowly missed making the list in 1999 despite posting   a record profit for Hong Kong  that year of HK$117.34 billion after selling Orange  to Mannesmann.

The Fortune 500 list ranks revenue before  profit.

Mainland newcomers to the list are  power company State Grid Corporation of China,  at 46, Shanghai Baosteel at 372 and Shanghai Automotive at 461.

Also appearing on the list are Hong Kong-listed companies HSBC (ranked 47), Sinopec (53), PetroChina (73), China Life Insurance (241), China Mobile (242), Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (243) and China Telecom (257).

Together, the mainland and Hong Kong  firms increased revenue by 53 per cent to US$358.3 billion, Fortune said.

United States retail giant Wal-Mart topped the list for the third consecutive year with revenue of US$263 billion.

BP, Europe's largest oil company, outranked ExxonMobil for the first time, coming in at No2.  Overall, the top 500 companies posted  US$14.9 trillion in sales.



Hutchison Whampoa climbs into  Fortune 500