On June 26, 2009, “2008 China Listed Company Value Appraisal and the 1st China Investors' Most Welcome Listed Company Website Award Ceremony” was held in Beijing. Industrial Bank (601166) was named among “China's Top 100 Most Valuable Listed Companies of 2008”, its website (www.cib.com.cn) was also appraised as “The Best Business Platform Website”, and Tang Bin, the BOD Secretary of IB was entitled as one of “The 100 Best BOD Secretaries of China's Listed Companies”.
The China Listed Company Value Appraisal is sponsored by Securities Daily, which has been successfully held for 3 years. Based on objective, fair and professional evaluation standards, this activity aims to reveal excellent listed companies with outstanding financial performance, high governance level and top-grade management team, brands and strategies to constantly create value for stockholders, thus advocating a sound culture of value investment in the capital market. Since Industrial Bank was listed in 2007, it was named among “China's Top 100 Most Valuable Listed Companies” in 2007 and 2008.
For a long time, Industrial Bank has always emphasized upgrading its governance level, stuck to the stable operation and sustainable development, advocated “Integrating Morals into Profits” and tried to practice its social responsibilities through its business activities, thus growing into a trustable bank among stockholders, employees, clients, partners, governments and other stakeholders. Up to the end of 2008, the total assets of Industrial Bank had exceeded the one trillion mark, reaching 1.0209 trillion; the net profit realized by Industrial Bank was 11.385 billion; the ratio of non-performing loans was just 0.83%, and various indicators of quality and performance represented an international standard. In the 2009 rankings of the Top 2000 global listed companies published by Forbes in April, the Industrial Bank ranked in 389th place overall and 62nd place among the 307 global banks on the list.