【中国农业银的英文介绍】
中国农业银的英文介绍
【中国农业银的英文介绍】
中国农业银的英文介绍
AgriculturalBankofChinaLimited(ABC,simplifiedChinese:中国农业银行股份有限公司),alsoknownasAgBank,isoneofthe"BigFour"banksinthePeople'sRepublicofChina.Itwasfoundedin1951,andhasitsheadquartersinBeijing.IthasbranchesthroughoutmainlandChina,andalsoinHongKongandSingapore.
ABChas320millionretailcustomers,2.7millioncorporateclients,andnearly24,000branches.ItisChina'sthirdlargestlenderbyassets.ABCwentpublicinmid-2010,fetchingtheworld'sbiggesteverinitialpublicoffering(IPO).
History
AftertheestablishmentofthePeople'sRepublicofChinain1949,ABChasbeenformedandabolishedseveraltimes.In1951,twobanksoftheRepublicofChina,FarmersBankofChinaandCooperationBank,mergedtoformAgriculturalCooperationBank,whichABCregardsasitsancestor.However,thebankwasmergedintoPeople'sBankofChina,thecentralbankin1952.ThefirstbankbearingthenameAgriculturalBankofChinawasfoundedin1955,butitwasmergedintothecentralbankin1957.In1963theChinesegovernmentformedanotheragriculturalbank,anditwasalsomergedintothecentralbanktwoyearslater.Today'sAgriculturalBankofChinawasfoundedinFebruary1979.ItwasrestructuredtoformaholdingcompanycalledAgriculturalBankofChinaLimited.ItwaslistedontheShanghaiandHongKongstockexchangesinJuly2010.
InApril2007ABCwasthevictimofthelargestbankrobberyinChinesehistory.ThisoccurredwhentwovaultmanagersattheHandanbranchofthebankinHebeiprovinceembezzledalmost51millionyuan(US$7.5million).