The company was founded in 1987. It is one of the earliest emerging commercial banks established in China's reform and opening up. It is the earliest commercial bank in China to participate in domestic and foreign financial market financing, and is famous at home and abroad for repeatedly creating many firsts in the history of modern Chinese finance, making positive contributions to China's economic construction. In April 2007, the Bank achieved simultaneous listing of A+H shares on the Shanghai Stock Exchange and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The company's main business is to provide corporate and retail banking services, engage in capital business, and provide asset management, financial leasing, financial management services and other non-bank financial services. Corporate honors: In December 2019, the Bank was awarded “China Banking Industry Top 10 New Media Influence”; “The Asian Banker” “2019 China Private Bank Value-added Service Award”, “2019 China's Most Developable Private Bank Award”; “2019 Brand Building Bank”; “2019 Best Investment Value Company” and “2019 Best Wealth Management Bank”; “China Business Daily”, “2019 Outstanding Competitive Retail Bank”; “2023 Banking Industry ESG Green Finance Model Case Award”, etc. By the end of the reporting period, the Bank had set up 1,459 business outlets in 153 large and medium-sized cities in China, including 37 first-level (direct) branch sales departments, 125 second-level branch sales departments, 1,297 branches (including 31 community/small and micro branches), 1,519 self-service banks (including in-bank and off-line), 4,438 self-service devices, and smart counters (including 3,036 vertical smart counters), formed a network of integrated outlets, boutique outlets, and communities/micro outlets, Diverse network business format composed of departing self-service outlets.