“The spirit of masters and high morale demonstrated and the fruitful and great achievements made by all the staffs in the process of reform and development have opened a glorious chapter in the more than 50 years of history of CCB. We are so proud of having such excellent staffs!” said emotionally the decision makers of the CCB headquarters at the second meeting of the first workers congress held recently. During the meeting 12 staffs from the grassroots including Li Xiangdang received the highest level of honor from the bank – CCB Outstanding Contribution Award and the largest ever amount of prizes in the history of the bank. It is a major measure of the bank to improve the award system, develop, select and use talents and enhance the quality of staffs.

To realize its strategic development goals, the primary task of the bank is to improve the quality of staffs. To stimulate their enthusiasm and innovation and encourage them to contribute to the development of the bank, CCB, after IPO, especially formulated the system of rewarding those excellent staffs making outstanding contributions and for the first time set the highest level of award – CCB Outstanding Contribution Award to such staffs. The Outstanding Contribution Award combines spiritual and physical awards and the winners will receive different amounts of prizes in addition to the honorary title. The winners are selected in a bottom-up way and after repeated deliberations. The headquarters establish a special selection committee which is responsible for collecting materials and making decisions based on facts and statistics instead of being prejudiced by first impressions. The committee adheres to the principle of putting quality before quantity and refrains from quota allocation and equalitarianism. Among the 12 winners, 1 receives the grade-one prize of RMB300,000; 5 receive the grade-two prizes of RMB 200,000 respectively and 6 receive the grade-three prizes of RMB100,000 respectively. All those prizes are pre-tax income.

It is said that the Outstanding Contribution Award is issued to those excellent staffs who have made outstanding contributions to the reform and development of CCB in the fields of customer services, marketing, technological development, product innovation, management improvement, risk control and asset protection and created great value to the bank. The list of the winners is decided after the strict review of the headquarters, branches and sub-branches, taking into consideration the achievement of staffs on certain project and ordinary performance, recent contributions and long-term efforts.

The 12 winners are the excellent representatives of the 300,000 staffs of CCB. Over years they work at the very front line diligently without seeking any return and have made the widely recognized contributions to the reform, development and management of the bank with professional skills and hardworking spirit. Some of them have worked behind the counter for a dozen of years and receive high recognition of the customers and the public with unerring skills and sincere services; some explore the service models with high value of demonstration and dissemination, build the service brand with high prestige and practice the “customer-centric” philosophy with tangible acts; some follow the development strategy of the bank in updating the development concepts, reforming the development model, innovating the management system, improving the quality of staffs and have enhanced the business performance remarkably; some are dedicated to innovation and make great breakthroughs in product development and service innovation to meet the diversified needs of the customers; some study assiduously and make outstanding contributions to the technological development; some are good at market analysis and studying marketing skills and have built a large customer base for CCB with their considerate services and high professionalism.

The 12 winners are: Li Xiangdang, vice manager of the business department of Xinjiang branch, Wang Tianlong, engineer of the IT department of Zhejiang branch, Feng Jiaxing, head of Baoshan sub-branch of Shanghai branch, Peng Hongming, head of Xiamen branch, Wang Mingjue, director of the Shanghai auditing division, He Xiao, grade-one business staff of Jinan Lixiakaiyuan sub-branch of Shandong branch, Zhou Feng, head of Binzhou Nanda sub-branch of Hunan branch, Wang Hongmei, director of Linfen Dalou banking office of Shanxi branch, Xin Jianhua, head of Lasa Chengxi sub-branch of Tibet branch, Sun Jianbo, head of Hai’erlu sub-branch of Qingdao branch, Dai Min, director of Nanjing Hanzhonglu banking office of Jiangsu branch and Li Wei, grade-three business staff of the business department of Quanzhou sub-branch of Fujian Branch.