The bank's business consists of three principal business segments: corporate banking, personal banking, and treasury operations.

Headquartered in Beijing, the bank had an extensive network of approximately 14,250 branch outlets as of June 30, 2005.

According to The Banker magazine in July 2005, CCB ranked the 25th among the world's top 1,000 banks based on tier-one capital.

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