10 China`s Famous Brands You Must Know
With the development of China`s economy, Chinese brands are developing fast and taking more shares on the global market. Here are 10 brands you must know
1. Zhongnanhai 中南海
Zhongnanhai Cigarette, was specially produced for Mao Zedong from the 1960’s on and is logically a natural go-to in Beijing. Light in flavor, this brand is also wildly popular with foreigners for some reason.
2. Lenovo 联想电脑
Lenovo is China’s biggest computer maker, now the world’s largest computer maker. It also acquired IBM PC division in 2005.
3. Tsingtao Beer 青岛啤酒
Tsingtao Beer, founded in 1903 as a joint venture by German and British settlers. It’s reportedly brewed to strict German standards and with mineral water from China’s Laoshan Spring. You can often find it in most Chinese restaurants and even Chinese restaurants around the world.
4. Haier Electronics 海尔电器
Haier Electronics is the world’s leading appliance maker by sales volume and one of China’s most famous brands. It’s most famous product is refrigerator.
5. TCL
TCL has the position as No. 1 Color TV Brand in China.
6. Chunghwa 中华香烟
Chunghwa Cigarette is the badge of any successful businessman, government employee, or Party member. At around 50 RMB a pack, they’re not cheap, yet carton after carton are given as gifts and tokens of appreciation across the country every day.
7. Tong Ren Tang 同仁堂
Tongrentang Medicine was founded in Kangxi 8 (Kangxi’s reign of the Qing Dynasty, 1669), is a famous time-honored brand in traditional Chinese medicine (“TCM”) industry.
8. Moutai 茅台
Moutai makes a lethally strong liquor first mass-produced during the Qing dynasty in the 17th century, and today is the toast of choice for special occasions.
9. Hisense 海信
Hisense Electronics has already become a famous brand, just like Samsung and LG, in Africa. If you take to the streets and ask the locals what consumer electronic brands they would choose, “Hisense” would definitely be one of their recommendations.
10. Wuliangye 五粮液
Wuliangye is a locally made liquor that is one of the most famous baijiu brands in China.