Established in August of 1992, China Everbright Bank (CEB) completed joint-stock reform in January 1997, thus becoming the first nation-wide joint-stock commercial bank with State Government as controlling shareholder and equity investment from international financial institutions. CEB had established over 370 banking offices in 36 major cities throughout 23 provinces by the end of 2003. [ more info ]

Founded on April 8, 1987 with its head office in Shenzhen, China Merchants Bank (CMB) is the first share-holding commercial bank wholly owned by corporate legal entities. CMB was successfully listed in Shanghai Stock Exchange on April 9, 2002 (600036) with the total assets of RMB 600 billion at present. CMB has set up branches [...] [ more info ]

Founded in August 1988, headquartered in Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, Industrial Bank (IB) is one of the first batch of joint-stock commercial banks approved by the State Council and the People’s Bank of China. IB has opened 31 branches and 338 sub-branches in main domestic cities. The Bank’s total assets achieved RMB 532.22 billion by [...] [ more info ]

Shanghai Pudong Development Bank (SPDB), incorporated on January 9, 1993 with the approval of the People’s Bank of China, is a joint-stock commercial bank with headquarters in Shanghai. It was the first shareholding commercial bank to list on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. SPDB has set up 24 directly subordinate branches and sub-branches in main cities [...] [ more info ]

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In 1992, Hua Xia Bank started operation in Beijing. It became a nationwide joint stock commercial bank after restructuring in 1995. In September 2003, Hua Xia Bank was listed in Shanghai Stock Exchange (600015), and was the fifth listed bank in China. In November 2005, Hua Xia Bank entered a series of agreements with the [...] [ more info ]

Established on December 28th 1987, Shenzhen Development Bank (SDB) has been growing from six rural credit cooperatives to a national shareholding commercial bank with more than 230 outlets in 18 center cities. In 2004 SDB successfully introduced an international strategic investor. [ more info ]

A subsidiary of CITIC Group, China CITIC Bank was first named CITIC Industrial Bank. Founded in 1987, the Bank was one of the first commercial banks to emerge after the reform and opening-up of China. Since its establishment, the Bank has been operating as a single legal person with a two-tier management system. At the [...] [ more info ]

China Bohai Bank is the first national joint-stock commercial bank established under the approval of the State Council as from 1996, the first Chinese commercial bank which introduced overseas strategic investors during the preparatory stage, and the first national commercial bank headquartered in Tianjin. [ more info ]

China Zheshang Bank was opened in August 2004 with registered capital of more than RMB 1.5billion. It was formed based on the restructuring of Zhejiang Commercial Bank, which was founded in March 1993. [ more info ]