CQRC BANK has been distinguished for its outstanding performance in investor relations management at a major financial awards ceremony.
The event, part of the 2026 SINA Finance Global Capital Summit, is a key annual gathering focused on the Hong Kong stock market and cross-border capital flows. It brings together leading global asset managers, top listed companies, and representatives from major technology and innovation firms, aiming to honour financial institutions, companies, and individuals who have made significant contributions to the development of Hong Kong's capital markets.
Achieving Excellence in Full-Cycle Investor Relations Operations
The "Best Hong Kong Stock IR" award represents high recognition from the capital markets for the professional standards of a listed company's investor relations work. This honour reflects CQRC BANK's long-term commitment to building an integrated, omnichannel investor communication system that covers both domestic and international markets, consistently responding to market concerns with transparent, efficient, and in-depth interaction.
In terms of in-person engagement, the bank has continuously expanded channels for on-site institutional research. By June 30, 2026, it had organised 47 investor exchange activities, hosting a total of 171 institutional investors. To give the capital markets a direct view of its local financial services, the bank arranged for institutional investors to visit its Wulong branch at the end of June, showcasing the practical application of its "digital-driven, industry-linked, scenario-ecosystem" approach and concretely demonstrating its achievements in inclusive and industrial finance, which received positive feedback from participants.
On the digital front, CQRC BANK has consistently delivered professional value, with brokerage firms publishing 28 research reports covering the bank during the year. Leveraging three key online communication channels—the Shanghai Stock Exchange's E-Interaction platform, a dedicated investor hotline, and an official IR email—the bank achieved a 100% response rate to investor inquiries, ensuring immediate attention to market questions and efficient dissemination of operational information, thereby creating a closed-loop for online capital market communication.
Engaging with a diverse investor base both domestically and internationally, the bank's management proactively conducted multiple performance roadshows in key financial hubs such as Shenzhen, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. Led by the Chairman, these sessions provided comprehensive explanations of the bank's medium-to-long-term strategy, periodic operational data, and transformation initiatives, breaking down cross-border information barriers and deepening global investors' understanding of the development logic of this Chongqing-based listed bank.
Concurrently, the bank has established a routine market value monitoring system, tracking daily stock price fluctuations and regularly monitoring shareholding changes among major institutions such as mutual funds and insurance companies. This comprehensive data system supports scientific market value management decisions and enables timely responses to shifts in market expectations. ESG considerations have also become a crucial component of its IR work. In 2026, CQRC BANK's MSCI ESG rating was upgraded from 'A' to 'AA'. The bank has deeply integrated its ESG governance outcomes into the entire investor communication process, using its solid sustainability performance to strengthen institutional investor confidence and achieve a two-way enhancement of both ESG brand value and market valuation.
Unleashing New Growth Drivers for Steady Performance
This recognition is underpinned by the bank's solid progress in high-quality development. Since 2025, CQRC BANK has activated three new growth drivers—digital-driven, industry-linked, and scenario-ecosystem—to power a new phase of development, delivering a strong performance report for customers and investors in the final year of the 14th Five-Year Plan period.
The digital-driven initiative has expanded its service network. The bank integrates advanced technologies like big data and AI with key industrial customer information, building a technology-finance customer acquisition platform, reshaping marketing models, and precisely meeting client needs. It continues to advance the construction of a technology-finance ecosystem, innovating with "patent matching + financial support" services. By June 30, 2026, it had collaborated with over 30 universities, more than 30 venture capital institutions, and hundreds of tech firms, facilitating the commercialisation of over 170 scientific and technological achievements. It launched the "Yunong Asset Intelligent Management" digital system, offering tailored services for rural collective economic organisations, using digital technology to remove bottlenecks in urban-rural financial services.
The industry-linked approach deepens regional specialisation. The bank has established industrial knowledge graphs and an "industrial brain", perfected a "one-county-one-product-one-lab-multiple-leading-enterprises" industrial chain service system, and created financial models for county-level characteristic industries like Yunyang noodles and Fuling pickles. Its loan scales for farmers, inclusive agriculture-related loans, and loans to new types of agricultural business entities all rank first in Chongqing, using financial resources to enhance the quality and efficiency of specialty industries. It also focuses on providing chain-based financial services for local advantageous industries, particularly the core supply chain of intelligent connected new energy vehicles, implementing special financing support for dealers.
The scenario-ecosystem driver builds ecological value. The bank focuses on diverse scenarios including community commerce, cultural tourism consumption, rural revitalisation, and technology finance, jointly building a sustainable financial ecosystem. For instance, it continuously iterates and upgrades the "Yukuaijia" community business service system, creating a value loop of "personal financial behaviour - increased points - consumption benefits - growth in merchant turnover", achieving new results in benefiting people's livelihoods and stimulating consumption. It is reported that by the end of June 2026, over 190,000 merchants and more than 3.35 million individual customers participated in "Yukuaijia" activities, driving over 1.7 billion yuan in merchant transactions. Building on the distinctive cultural tourism resources across Chongqing's districts and counties, it continues to expand cultural tourism consumption scenarios, having issued over 18,000 "Jiangyu Cultural Tourism Cards", activating consumption demand through scenario-based traffic attraction and achieving "traffic from scenarios, profit from the ecosystem".
Leading Core Metrics in Chongqing, Advancing Comprehensive Strength
Currently, CQRC BANK is actively unleashing the potential of its three new growth drivers, focusing on five key directions: technology empowerment, green transformation, inclusive services for people's livelihoods, elderly care services, and digital upgrading. This has resulted in its core metrics maintaining a leading position among peers in Chongqing and its overall strength reaching a new level. In the first quarter of 2026, the bank continued its steady development trend, with key operational indicators achieving high-quality growth.
As of March 31, 2026, the bank's asset scale continued to grow, reaching a new high with total assets of 1,766.322 billion yuan, an increase of 6.04%. For the quarter, it achieved operating income of 7.830 billion yuan and net profit attributable to parent company shareholders of 3.935 billion yuan, representing year-on-year growth of 8.39% and 5.07% respectively. Core operational indicators showed steady improvement, and asset quality remained robust.
Backed by its strong comprehensive strength and industry competitiveness, CQRC BANK was ranked 124th in The Banker's 2026 "Top 1000 World Banks" list, maintaining its 24th position among Chinese banks domestically. It was ranked 22nd in the "Top 100 Chinese Banks" list released by the China Banking Association in 2025 and entered the "Top 500 Chinese Enterprises" list at 445th place, jointly released by the China Enterprise Confederation and the China Entrepreneurs Association, making it the only banking institution from central and western China to be included.
Pursuing World-Class Excellence for Mutual Value Enhancement
Looking ahead, CQRC BANK will closely follow major national strategies and regional industrial development plans, adhering to the political and people-oriented nature of financial work. Staying true to its core business of serving the real economy, it will continue to deepen its three new growth drivers—digital-driven, industry-linked, and scenario-ecosystem—increasing financial support for Chongqing's local real economy and coordinating the synergistic development of economic and social benefits. On the capital market front, the bank will continue to optimise its investor relations management system, continuously enrich communication formats, and proactively and transparently convey its operational dynamics and development value to the market. It aims to work with investors to promote the effective implementation of its three-new-driver reforms, achieve high-quality sustainable development, realise a two-way enhancement of market and enterprise value, and steadily advance towards its long-term goal of becoming a world-class, modern, technology-driven, industry-focused, and ecosystem-oriented rural commercial bank.
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