From January 27th to 28th, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) held its 2026 Party Building and Operational Management Conference in Beijing. ICBC Party Committee Secretary and Chairman Liao Lin attended the meeting and delivered a speech, while Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and President Liu Jun presented the operational analysis report. The conference emphasized the need to comprehensively, profoundly, and accurately understand and grasp the strategic deployments made at the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee, to formulate and implement the bank's "16th Five-Year Plan" effectively, and to build a first-class, leading, clean, and modern bank. Adhering to the principles of "Seeking Progress while Maintaining Stability, Improving Quality and Efficiency," along with the two "Better Coordinations," the bank will uphold a correct view of political achievements and follow the main thread of financial work: "Preventing Risks, Strengthening Supervision, and Promoting High-Quality Development," continuously striving to strengthen its core business, enhance quality and efficiency, and expand its contributions. The first is to enhance the effectiveness of risk prevention and promote new progress in comprehensive risk management; the second is to improve compliance capabilities, ensuring a new leap in internal control management; the third is to elevate the level of high-quality development, demonstrating new responsibilities in serving modernization; the fourth is to enhance the value of high-quality services, creating a new ecosystem of symbiosis and mutual benefit; the fifth is to improve the pattern of serving high-level openness, pioneering a new situation of global coordination; the sixth is to boost the quality and efficiency of high-performance reforms, stimulating new vitality for innovation and creation. The conference stressed the need to comprehensively strengthen Party leadership and Party building, advancing the strict governance of the Party and the bank with higher standards and more concrete measures. It called for persistent efforts to use the Party's innovative theories to unite hearts and minds, improve political capabilities, firmly uphold the "Two Establishments," and resolutely achieve the "Two Safeguards." The bank must firmly establish and practice a correct view of political achievements, adhering to the principle of "Achieving political achievements for the people and through hard work," consciously act in accordance with objective laws, base efforts on reality, work solidly, and strive for tangible results to promote high-quality and sustainable development. Strengthening discipline, anti-corruption efforts, and the "One Table" integrated rectification initiative is essential to promote the normalization and long-term effectiveness of work style construction. Upholding the "Three Excellences" standard, the bank will solidly carry out the work of selecting the capable, appointing the virtuous, nurturing talent, and gathering experts. The conference analyzed the bank's operational development in 2025 and arranged key operational tasks for 2026. It required pinpointing the focal points for operations in the inaugural year, effectively preventing and resolving risks in key areas, accelerating the alignment of products and customers, and supporting the consolidation of a stable and improving economic trend. The bank will continue to deepen reforms, innovation, and operational transformation to ensure the completion of all annual tasks and objectives.
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