China Everbright Bank Co., Ltd. is one of twelve

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. Established in August 1992, it is a national joint-stock commercial bank approved by the

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and approved by the People's Bank of China, headquartered in Beijing. It was ranked in 139th in 2016

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publicly held companies. Sister company

Everbright Securities Everbright Securities Company Limited is a securities brokerage by assets in China, controlled by state-owned financial conglomerate, China Everbright Group. It was founded in 1996 and is based in Shanghai. It was listed on the Shanghai Stock ...

ranked 862th. As of August 2016, it was a constituent of the

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for all Chinese companies among the three stock exchanges of China, as well as a constituent of the

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among two stock exchanges in mainland China and lastly a constituent of the SSE 50 Index of Shanghai. The bank also a constituent of the

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(and its sub-index CSI 100 Index) and other indices.

Shareholders

China Everbright Group China Everbright Group is a Chinese state-owned enterprise. Everbright Group was a subsidiary (55.67 percent) of Central Huijin Investment. The Ministry of Finance of China owned the rest of the stake, which Central Huijin acquired on 8 December 2 ...

and its subsidiaries owned 27.97% stake in the bank, Everbright Group's parent company,

Central Huijin Investment Central Huijin Investment Co., Ltd. is a Chinese investment company owned by the Central People's Government, government of the People's Republic of China. Established in 2003, it became a wholly owned subsidiary of China Investment Corporation, w ...

owned 21.96% stake directly as the second largest shareholder of the bank. Moreover, the directors in the board of Everbright Group that nominated by Central Huijin Investment, were also nominated as the directors of the bank (as part of the shareholders' agreement from the State Council), thus Central Huijin Investment and China Everbright Group are the intermediate parent company of the bank. The ultimate parent company is the

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, which is supervised by the

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