The company was founded on January 1, 1984. On October 28, 2005, the Bank as a whole was restructured as a company limited by shares. On October 27, 2006, the Bank successfully listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on the same day. The Bank is committed to building a world-class modern financial enterprise with Chinese characteristics, with a high-quality customer base, diversified business structure, strong innovation ability and market competitiveness. The Bank takes service as its foundation, insists on creating value through service, and serves high-quality economic and social development with its own high-quality development. The company's main business is to provide banking and related financial services. Corporate honors: In 2018, the Bank obtained 43 patent authorizations, and obtained a total of 549 patent authorizations, including 270 nationally authorized invention patents and 279 utility model and design patents. The Bank ranked first in the industry in the China Banking Insurance Regulatory Commission's information technology supervision rating for five consecutive years, 6 scientific and technological achievements won the China Banking Insurance Regulatory Commission's IT Risk Management Award, the “ICBC Smart Future Bank” project won the highest honorary SAIL Award in the 2018 World Artificial Intelligence Innovation Competition, and “Excellent Foreign Currency Lending and Quoting Bank”, “Excellent Foreign Currency Lending and Quoting Bank” and “Excellent Foreign Currency Repurchase Member” by the China Foreign Exchange Trading Center for 7 consecutive years. At the end of 2024, the Bank had a total of 16,383 institutions, an increase of 86 over the end of the previous year. Among them, there are 15,975 domestic institutions and 408 overseas institutions. Domestic institutions include the head office, 36 first-level branches and direct branches, 460 provincial capitals and second-level branches, 15,107 grass-roots branches, 21 branches directly under the head office and their branches, and 350 holding subsidiaries and branches.