This year we rank all 45 Chinese firms by profits per equity partner for the first time, and the results show a great disparity. The 45 firms had an average PEP of $474,911—about a quarter of the $1.833 million average PEP of the Global 100. But the most profitable Chinese firms are actually not too far from their global peers. The 10 Chinese firms with the highest PEP—the only firms that hit $800,000 or more—reported an average PEP of $1.052 million.

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