The company was founded on September 28, 2010 and is the only listed commercial bank headquartered in Suzhou. The company continues to work intensively in the fields of inclusive finance, science and innovation finance, green finance, and livelihood finance to better serve economic and social development. Adhering to the “craftsman spirit”, the Bank of Suzhou concentrates, forges professionalism, dares to break through, dare to innovate, and aims to flourish with sustainable, high quality, and vigorous development. It strives to become a bank that the corporate people trust and contribute to the new practices of the Bank of Suzhou to Chinese-style modernization. The Bank's business scope includes: absorbing public deposits; issuing short-, medium- and long-term loans; handling domestic and foreign settlement; handling bill acceptance and discounting; issuing, and underwriting government bonds; trading government bonds and financial bonds; engaging in peer lending; proxy payment and insurance services; providing safe deposit box services; foreign exchange deposits; foreign exchange loans; foreign exchange; foreign exchange; credit investigation, consulting and witness services; and other services approved by the China Banking Regulatory Commission. The company received honors such as the 5th “National Civilized Unit”, the 2017 China Banking Industry Civilized Standard Service Top 100 Demonstration Units, the 2016 China Fintech Innovation Award, the 2016 Third Prize for Regulatory Statistics, and the “Top Ten New Benchmark Banks for Green Finance” and the “Beautiful China Dual Carbon Pioneer Award”. The company has now opened 12 branches and 176 outlets across the province.