China Construction Bank Corporation (“CCB” or “the Bank”), headquartered in Beijing, is a leading large-scale joint stock commercial bank in Mainland China, and began operations in October 1954 as China Construction Bank. CCB was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in October 2005 (stock code: 939) and listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange in September 2007 (stock code: 601939). At the end of 2016, CCB’s market capitalization reached US$192.6 billion, ranking fifth among listed banks in the world. CCB ranked second in terms of tier-one capital in the 2016 “Top 1000 World Banks” by The Banker magazine in the United Kingdom.
CCB has a total of 14,985 branches and sub-branches and 362,482 employees in Mainland China. It provides services to hundreds of millions of retail and corporate customers, and partners closely with dominant companies in strategic sectors in China’s economy as well as a large number of high-end customers. CCB has established corporate banking branches and subsidiaries in 29 countries and regions around the world, to a total of entities at all levels in overseas markets. CCB has also set up subsidiaries in various areas, including funds, leasing, trusts, life insurance, property insurance, investment banking, futures and pension.
CCB is committed to becoming the bank that creates the greatest value for its stakeholders by accelerating the transformation to build a bank featuring integration, multifunctional service, intensive development, innovation and smartness, and realizes the integration of short-term and long-term benefits, that of the operational targets and social corporate responsibility goals, and ultimately achieves the value maximization for customers, shareholders, society and employees.