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China's Reserve Requirement Ratio for large banks. China's banking sector had CN¥417 trillion (US$58.54 trillion) in assets at the end of 2023. [1]The "Big Four" state-owned commercial banks are the Bank of China, the China Construction Bank, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, and the Agricultural Bank of China, all of which are among the largest banks in the world as of 2018.
The central bank of the People's Republic of China is the People's Bank of China, a component of the State Council, the Central Government of China. The People's Bank of China is mainly responsible for issuing the Renminbi and administering its circulation, in addition to formulating and implementing monetary policy in accordance with Chinese ...
Rishengchang, the first draft bank in China Royal inscribed board, saying "Financial exchange all over the world", in Rishengchang, Pingyao. An early Chinese banking institution was called the draft bank or piaohao (票号) in Chinese, also known as Shanxi banks because they were owned primarily by Shanxi merchants.
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It is the largest of the "big four" banks in China, and the largest bank in the world by total assets. [8] ICBC was created on 1 January 1984 from what were then the commercial banking operations of the People's Bank of China. ICBC is majority-owned by the Chinese government and has remained so after its landmark initial public offering in 2006.
In 1917, Tsuyee Pei opened the branch of the Bank of China in Hong Kong. [13] [14] In 1928, the bank moved its head office from Beijing to Shanghai. In 1920, the bank opened the Investigative Office of the Bank of China. [15] The Investigative Office was the earliest research body in China's banking sector. [15]
The Central Reserve Bank took over the monetary role previously granted to the Huaxing Commercial Bank in Shanghai, whereas the United Reserve Bank (in Peiping) and the Mengjiang Bank (in Kalgan) kept issuing their own money in North China. [3]: 512 It issued "puppet currency" known in English as the Reserve Bank note (chubei-quan).
In 1979, China initiated a transition from that single-tier banking system to a two-tier system, which was largely completed by 1984. [11]: 188–189 In March 1979, as part of the Chinese economic reforms, the State Council split off state-owned banks from the PBC, first the Agricultural Bank of China (ABC) and the Bank of China (BOC).