Industrial Bank : Awarded the Honor of “Top 10 Excellent Investor Relationship Management Company...

Recently, the selection of the '13th New Fortune Gold Secretary of the Board' revealed the result, which has attracted nearly 260 thousand broker analysts, institutional investors, individual investors, financial media and other voters. Industrial Bank (IB) won the honor of 'Top 10 Excellent Investor Relationship Management Company' among more than 2000 participating listed companies, making it the only bank on the list. The secretary of the board of IB Chen Xinjian was rated as 'Gold Secretary of the Board'.

Since its IPO in 2007, IB has combined the social responsibility of 'showing obligations in profits' with the investor relationship management featuring 'smooth communication and accurate delivery'. IB has actively undertaken investor exchange and communication activities of many forms and distinctive themes, accurately delivered the differentiated features and core advantaged formed in the process of operation transformation, showcased the outcomes of operation development and built up an open, transparent and responsible image as a listed company in the capital market.

The reporter notes that IB excels at applying many channels and forms of communication to exchange and communicate with investors in an ongoing way, such as the combination of common promotion with special promotion events, and the combination of field meetings with telephone meetings and online meetings. Report has it that, in 2016, in addition to the regular performance announcement meeting, IB also held many 'closed conferences of bank governors', invited famous analysts and managers to have special exchanges, organized special investigation and research into featured business and actively visited shareholders. It has deep interaction with the market in many different forms. Taking the example of promoting private placement, IB immediately held the clarification meeting by telephone, organized road shows in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, visited more than 50 major shareholders in China to expand on the scheme and answer questions. Meanwhile, the IB investor relationship team took the advantage of strategy meetings of mainstream brokers at home and abroad to have more than 40 face-to-face exchanges and interviews with over 150 institutional investors across the globe. Furthermore, the company also actively communicated with investors new media to increase the transparency and protect the interest of investors and stakeholders.

IB also focuses on the fairness and the protection of legal interests in the communication with small and medium-sized investors. In 2016, IB investor relationship team answered more than 1000 calls from small and medium-sized investors and timely addressed the investor inquiries in the investor mailbox and the E-interaction Platform of Shanghai Stock Exchange; the management of the company communicated with small and medium-sized investors on quanjing.com; the company recorded the exchanges and meetings held with small and medium-sized investors on the websites of Shanghai Stock Exchange and the company as soon as possible, so as to enhance the fairness of information disclosure; as for market hotspots and sensitive questions, the investor relationship team would actively and timely communicate with investors of all types, perform its duty of information disclosure via company website or mainstream media as soon as possible, address the concerns of investors, deliver objective and reasonable views. IB is trusted by most investors.

IB is committed to building a sustainable and responsible banking group which values investor return. After considering the actual operation status, future development of the company and the overall benefits of all shareholders, the company has formulated an Article of Association to define continuous, stable and reasonable dividend policies and implement positive profit distribution schemes. After ten years since its IPO, the asset scale and operation performance of IB by the end of 2016 are increased by 10 times and 13 times compared with those at the end of 2006; the accumulative net profit of 2007-2016 is RMB 304.6 billion; totally RMB 64 billion of cash dividends have been distributed to common shareholders with a dividend rate of 21%, thus generating great and valuable return for investors.

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