ICBC Won the First of "China Excellence Financial-Economic Securities Website"Again

Recently, the award list of the sixth investors favored "China Excellence Financial-Economic Securities Website", which is an eye-catching event in the industry, was announced. ICBC won two awards this time, there are First of "Excellence Banking Website" and "Best Online Transaction Security Website". This was the second time that ICBC received such awards after winning the first of "China Excellence Financial-Economic Securities Website" Banking site most favored by stock (internet) investors".

It is introduced that "China Excellence Financial-Economic Securities Website" was initiated by Securities Times and jointly organized by Sina.com and Shenzhen Securities Information Co. Ltd. It is an influential poll conducted on securities and financial-economic websites. It has been successfully run for six times since its start in 2000. This year's review was started on June 28. Altogether there were 507,392 valid votes received nationwide. 145,962 votes were received through Internet and 361,430 votes were from newspapers.

Person in charge from ICBC concerned department said, award received again this year further indicates that ICBC has gained considerably recognition among securities customers and Internet user groups. Winning the first of "China Excellence Banking Website" and "Best Online Transaction Security Website" is truly a matched name given to ICBC, who have spent ceaseless efforts on website functions and security, and it is also a name to a website that all our customers and users voted for as well.

This person also stated that until the end of October 2005, according to the internal statistics, number of ICBC Personal Internet Banking customers broke through 15.14 million. Trade volume reached RMB 457.6 billion. Its market shares stayed on top of all Internet Banking offered by domestic banks.

In particular, a series of emerging services as Online Remittance and Online Fund, have all been well-received by customers. Growth of the business volume was dramatic. From January to October 2005, trade volume of Online Remittance and Online Fund was RMB 11.58 billion and RMB 6.11 billion respectively.

In the growing online payment market in China, ICBC also develops fast. Accumulated trade volume in the first ten months of 2005 reached RMB 5.519 billion. ICBC online payment trade volume ratio in many renowned domestic e-commerce website as Taobao, eBay, Shanda was all on the top.