The list of "Top 150 Global Engineering Design Firms" in 2025 was published by the Engineering News-Record, ENR on August 7. Hunan Construction Investment Group (HCIG) ranks 26th on the list with its comprehensive strength and international influence, which shows the group's comprehensive ability in international development has further received international authoritative recognition. 

As the largest foreign economic enterprise in Hunan Province and the leading unit of the Hunan's construction industry going global strategic cooperation alliance, the group has always regarded international development as its core strategy. 

In recent years, HCIG has actively integrated itself into the overall national development situation, fully contributed to the "the Belt and Road" Initiative, and further promoted the "going global" strategy. 

On the basis of consolidating the traditional advantages of engineering contracting, the group focuses on promoting business transformation and upgrading, and accelerating the construction of a new pattern of international business development that integrates investment, construction, operation, and trade. 

It has also fully leveraged the synergies of the entire industry chain and multiple formats to continuously expand international business. 

It has become the main force and vanguard of Hunan Province's "going global" strategy and participation in national production capacity cooperation.

ENR data from the same period shows that the overall strength of Chinese design companies continues to strengthen. 

In 2025, the number of Chinese companies on the list steadily increased, and the international business scale maintained a stable development trend. The number of companies on the list and the total international business continued to lead among companies in other countries around the world, demonstrating the strong development resilience of China's engineering design industry and its good adaptability to the global market.

This honor fully showcases the significant progress in its internationalization development path. Over the years, the group has relied on its profound technological accumulation, talent advantages, and project management capabilities to continuously enhance its core competitiveness in high-end consulting, planning and design, technological innovation, and other high-end links of the value chain. 

It is committed to providing comprehensive solutions covering the entire life cycle of projects to global customers and has gained widespread recognition in the international market. 

This not only affirms the comprehensive strength and international business achievements of the group, but also lays a more solid foundation for exploring broader global high-end markets and deeply participating in global infrastructure and sustainable development construction. 

The group will continue to strengthen its innovation-driven ability, and enhance its design-led capabilities, thus contributing more wisdom and strength to promoting global engineering and technological progress.