It was reported that the Awarding Ceremony of "Investor Relations Awards of Chinese Mainland" sponsored by IR MAGEZINE, an authoritative selection institution of global investor relations was held ceremoniously in Beijing on December 16, 2008. On the ceremony, Jiang Jianqing, Board Chairman of ICBC and Yang Kaisheng, President of ICBC won the titles "Board Chairman with Best Investor Relations" and "CEO with Best Investor Relations" respectively. 　　

According to sources, IR MAGEZINE is the most authoritative selection institution of investor relation management in the world. Recently it has successfully held 7 selections in mainland of China. This time the magazine entrusted an independent investigation institution with conducting an anonymous questionnaire survey on hundreds of buyer analysts, seller analysts and fund managers in the world, and then concluded the results of the selection from the summarized data. 

According to insiders, the fact that ICBC showed itself from many listed companies participating in the selection, and won several important awards including "Board Chairman/CEO with Best Investor Relations" and award nominations of "Best Investor Meeting", "Best Governance", "Best Annual Report" in Chinese mainland, as well as award nomination of "Best Investor Relations" in Hong Kong and Taiwan regions powerfully demonstrates that ICBC has obtained the positive affirmation and wide acknowledgement in capital markets domestically and internationally for its efforts and achievements made in investor relation management.