Engineering News Record, a well-known U .S.-based publicatio released its latest ranking of The Top 225 International Clontractors in its August 25 issue. There are forty-nine Chinese international contractors listedin this year'sranking, while forty-thre weere ranked in last year. Based on dataresources of ENR , a series of spe-cial articles on the current situatio of world constructio mnarket and performance of world top engineer-ing contractors are presented in this issue of IEC magazine.