More than 2,000 Chinese listed firms so far have released their interim reports for the first half of this year.
 
Oil giant Sinopec tops the list of China's best listed performers with net profits of 19.9 billion yuan. The China State Construction Engineering Corporation came in second with net profits of 16.1 billion yuan.

Next on the list of top ten performers are SAIC Motor, China Shenhua Energy, Kweichow Moutai, Guangdong Wen's Foodstuffs Group, Gree Electric Appliances, Huaneng Power International, China Vanke and Great Wall Motor.

The ongoing economic slowdown has continued to weigh on business performance in China but the total profits of the country's Top 10 listed companies reached nearly 99.2 billion yuan in the first half of the year.