The company's predecessor can be traced back to the Agricultural Cooperative Bank, which was established in 1951. The company is one of the major comprehensive financial service providers in China. It is committed to building a world-class commercial banking group with obvious operating characteristics, efficient and convenient services, complete functional collaboration, and outstanding value creation capabilities. With its comprehensive business portfolio, vast distribution network and leading technology platform, the Bank provides customers with various corporate banking and retail banking products and services, and also carries out financial market business and asset management business. The scope of business also covers investment banking, fund management, financial leasing, life insurance and other fields. The company's main business is to provide banking and related financial services. Corporate honors: 2017 IDC Asia Pacific Financial Industry Innovation Award Trophy, 2016 Financial Industry Top Ten Social Marketing Cases, 2015 Most Socially Responsible Financial Institutions Award, Outstanding Charity Project Award, Best Social Responsibility Special Contribution Network Award, etc. 2023 Listed Company Board Best Practice Case “Listed Company Performance Briefing Best Practice” Award “2023 Listed Company ESG Best Practice Case” Award, “China ESG Listed Company Pioneer 100”, “2023 China ESG Outstanding Practice” Award Top 10 “Chinese ESG Role Models”, and the 18th China Listed Company Board Gold Roundtable Award “Special Contribution Award to Corporate Governance”. As of the end of June 2024, the Bank had a total of 22,863 branches, including the head office headquarters, head office sales department, 4 head office franchised agencies, 4 training institutes, 37 first-level branches, 409 second-level branches, 3,315 first-level branches, 19,050 grass-roots business institutions and 42 other organizations.