The "7th China Best Finance & Securities Websites" review, organized by Securities Times and Shenzhen Securities Information Co. Ltd, drew to a close lately. ICBC won the crowns of First Prize of "China Best Finance & Securities Websites (Bank)", "Most Trusted Bank Website" and "Most Convenient Bank Website".

The "China Best Finance & Securities Websites" was sponsored by Securities Times and was co-organized by Shenzhen Securities Information Co. Ltd. This Review has witnessed the growth of securities, fund, futures, banks and e-commerce insurance in China, and now is one of the most extensive, most influential, most authoritative financial websites selection, with the debate added for annual selection of commercial banks websites from 2004. ICBC was already the winner of "China Best Finance & Securities Websites (Bank) "and "Most Trusted Bank Website" for many times in the last 3 years.

The 7 months' Review this year attracted up to 187 units in the selection, the participated financial and securities websites reached over hundred, which include 82 brokers, 51 fund houses, 15 futures companies, 15 banks and 24 general financial and economic websites. The Organization Committee altogether received 329,579 votes across the country, 297,058 of which are online and 32,521 from newspapers. The top 10 "China Best Financial and Securities Websites" had been rounded up after the votes.

ICBC Person-in-charge stated that ICBC E-banking kept launching industry-leading Internet banking products and moving forward the portal website functions in recent years. The efforts gained significant recognition from customers. According to statistics, the customer number of ICBC "Banking@Home" Personal Internet Banking broke through 20 million and reached 22.52 million by the end of October this year, while the customer number of "ICBC e-Fortune Link" already went to 570,000. 29.6% of ICBC business was driven through electronic . ICBC was sitting on the top in terms of market shares in electronic banking among commercial banks in China. The winning of three awards in "China Best Financial and Securities Websites (Bank)" Review this time was a further recognition of ICBC Internet Banking by customers.