Established on January 12, 1996 in Beijing, China Minsheng Banking Corp., Ltd. is a national joint-stock commercial bank with investments mainly from non-state-owned enterprises (NSOEs), and is a standard join-stock financial institution founded in strict compliance with the rules and regulations under the Company Law and the Commercial Banking Law. The Company differentiates itself from other state-owned banks and commercial banks as a combination of involvement of diversified economic sectors in the financial sector in China and application of normative modern enterprise system. As a pilot program of China's banking reform, the Company forges ahead with unremitting efforts to explore its businesses, expand its asset size, improve its profitability and maintain rapid and health growth. It has made proactive contributions to the reform and innovation of the Chinese banking industry.