More than four years after it shuttered its Chinese retail banking operations, Bank of America's charity arm is now funding a conservation program in China.

The China Banking Association published its 2009 corporate social responsibility report while celebrating its 10th anniversary in Beijing.

Chinese media reports that the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the Bank of China, China Agricultural Bank, and China Construction Bank, which are jointly known as the four state-owned commercial banks in China, will hire a total of 37,500 college graduates this year despite the current slowing of the economy.

Liu Jiayi, the auditor general at China's National Audit Office, has disclosed to local media that three state-owned banks — Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Bank of China, and China Construction Bank — had all been involved in irregularities during the recent shareholding reforms and these have involved a total of about CNY6 billion.

The Green Computer Poverty-Alleviation initiative, held by China Rural Infoplatform Office of Association of Poverty-Alleviation & Development and Sohu.com, has been officially launched in Beijing.

Formed by Chinese banks, securities institutions, e-commerce websites and domain name management and service organizations, the China Anti-phishing Website Alliance has been founded to fight phishing websites through better management of domain names and domain name servers.

The UnionPay Chinese Red charity credit card has been unveiled in Beijing with Industrial & Commercial Bank of China, Agricultural Bank of China, Bank of China, China Construction Bank, and Bank of Shanghai the first institutions to issue Chinese Red.