Weihua Ma

Mr. Ma Wei Hua is now a director and the President of China Merchants Bank, also an executive director of the Chinese Institute of Finance and a director of the Chinese Entrepreneurs Association. He was awarded a doctor's degree of economics and an honorary PhD respectively by Southwest University of Finance and Economics (China) and Southern California University (the US).
Graduating from the School of Economics in Jilin University with a Bachelor's Degree, he began to serve in the government of Liaoning and Anhui provinces. He was transferred to the People's Bank of China (PBC) in 1988 where he served as the Secretary to the Governor, then the Deputy Director-General of the Governor's Office and the Monetary Planning Department respectively. At the end of 1992, he was appointed as President of the PBC Hainan Branch and of the State Administration of Exchange Control Hainan Branch. In Jan 1999 he joined China Merchants Bank as the Pres

About China Merchant Bank

Approved by the People's Bank of China and invested by China Merchants Group, China Merchants Bank was established on April 8, 1987, China's first commercial bank wholly invested by the legal entities of business, headquartered in Shenzhen that is a special economic zone in China.
Headquartered in Shenzhen, CMB has built a branch network of more than 230 branches and sub-branches in the country's major cities. The Bank has signed agency agreements with more than 630 banks in the world. As a result, CMB has formed a national branch and various business channels to the world. According to The Banker, a British magazine published in July 2000, CMB was ranked the 222nd among the World Top 1000 Banks in terms of core capital. According to the ranking published by Euromoney, CMB was listed No.1 within the top 100 Asian Banks of 1999 in terms of return of equity. Global Finance rated CMB the best local bank in China last year.
In the five years yet to come, CMB will speed up its internet banking, improve equity operation, and strive to be publicly listed in domestic and foreign stock market.