(1)Approved by state Council and the Head Office of the People’s Bank of China, a signing ceremony was held in Hong Kong & Macao Center in Beijing on November 28,2001 for IFC’s equity investment in our bank. The Chairman of the Board of Directors, Mr. Lin Fu ,representing Nanjing City Commercial Bank, Vice Executive Director, Mr. Peter Woick representing IFC, signed the agreement. IFC invested USD 27 million in our bank to hold 15% share of ours. It has become the 3rd biggest shareholders of our bank. That investment action was selected as one of the ten most important events in the economic and social development of Nanjing in 2001.

(2)On December 5, China Securities Regulatory Commission formally approved our bank’s qualification as a legal person bank for depositing and keeping the money used by the clients of the security companies for settling stock transactions. We are one of the first six banks granted such qualification.

(3)On July 19, the People’s Bank of China formally approved our bank’s qualification of bilateral price bidder in inter-bank bond market. We are one of the first nine bilateral price bidders.

(4)On April 28, advocated by Nanjing Branch of the People’s Bank of China, our bank led other eight city commercial bank in Jiangsu Province to establish Jiangsu Provincial Assocation of City Commercial Bank in Nanjing.

(5)On May 31, approved by the People’s Bank of China, our bank was granted the qualification of one of the first bond settlement agents in China.

(6)We made a breakthrough in the cooperation with universities by cultivation Southeast University, Nanjing Institute of Economics, Nanjing Institute of Post and Telecommunications, Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine etc. to be our partners.