ICBC (Asia) Elite Club Presents “WiseInvest Forum Tour” Key Highlights of Q3 2011: Spotting Growth Opportunities

25 August 2011, Hong Kong – ICBC (Asia) organized a “WiseInvest Forum Tour” on 20th August 2011 at Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre with the title of “Key Highlights of Q3 2011: Spotting Growth Opportunities”, in order to provide comprehensive information in several investment aspects for its customers. The Forum consisted of five different themes, which demonstrated the latest information of five different investment markets including: the global emerging markets, foreign exchange and gold markets, global food crisis and resource shortage, economic growth in China and RMB trend and the latest movement of Hong Kong stock market. ICBC (Asia) invited several famous investment specialists to present their in-depth analysis, it enabled the investors to keep abreast of the latest market dynamics before they could allocate their investment in a rational manner.

The event started at 11:00a.m. and ended at 7:00p.m. The event recorded over 2,000 attendances and the participants raised questions enthusiastically in a good atmosphere. The forum ended after the souvenir presentation from Mr. Ying Weiyun, Assistant General Manager of ICBC (Asia), to the speaker of the last session, Mr. Arthur Shek, Associate Publisher & Head of Research Department of Hong Kong Economic Times.

This event was the largest forum and the number of participants also hit the record high comparing to similar investment function hosted by ICBC (Asia) over the years. It not only strengthened the customer relationship, but also showed it was fully supported by the customers.

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Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Asia) Limited

Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Asia) Limited (“ICBC (Asia)”) is a licensed bank incorporated in Hong Kong. It has 50 branches, 14 “Elite Club” Wealth Management Centres and 4 commercial business centres in Hong Kong. It is principally engaged in banking, financial and other financial related services with focus on retail banking, commercial banking as well as

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corporate banking business. Chinese Mercantile Bank and ICBC (Asia) Investment Management Company Limited, the wholly-owned subsidiaries of ICBC (Asia), are specialized in the RMB services in Mainland China and the investment management businesses with a focus on Asia respectively. ICBC (Asia) is the flagship of Hong Kong banking business of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited, the largest commercial bank in Mainland China (in terms of total assets). On 5 May 2010, Fitch Ratings assigned ‘1’ Support Rating and ‘C’ Individual Rating to ICBC (Asia). On 7 May 2010, ICBC (Asia) was assigned A2/Prime-1 long-term/short- term deposit ratings and C