The China Corporate Social Responsibility Rank 2009 was formally released at a symposium in Beijing organized, amongst others, by the China CSR Research Center.

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.

Chinese Internet media and message boards are abuzz with information that Xidian University in Xi'an has used the personal data of more than 10,000 students to apply for credit cards without notifying them.

Through the non-profit organization Sowers Action, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Asia) has sponsored the reconstruction of a dilapidated primary school.

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 China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group and Industrial and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China signed an agreement on green energy construction financial cooperation recently in Shenzhen, making the agreement the first one between the bank and the enterprise.