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About
Website http://www.psbc.com/cn/index.html
Headquarters
No. 131 Xuanwumen West Street, Xicheng District
100808 Beijing
China
CEO/chair Lyu Jiajin
Executive Director, President
Supervisor
Central Bank of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
Ownership
listed on Hong Kong Stock Exchange

PSBC's shareholder structure can be accessed here.

Postal Savings Bank of China (also known as PSBC) is a commercial retail bank founded in 2007 and headquartered in Beijing. Its origins date back to 1919 when the Postal Savings Bureau, the predecessor of China Post Savings, was established. PSBC provides basic financial services, especially to small and medium-sized enterprises, rural and low income customers. The bank has close to 40,000 branches covering all regions of China and serves nearly 600 million customers.

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Commitments
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Postal Savings Bank of China does not have publicy available investment policies. The bank's web page on corporate social responsibility only lists its most recent annual CSR reports.

Postal Savings Bank of China has committed itself to the following voluntary standards:
Global Reporting InitiativeTags: sustainable development | human rights
Principles for Responsible Banking (PRB)Tags: climate change | corporate social responsibility | finance | sustainable development | United Nations | Voluntary Standards
Dodgy Deals

Postal Savings Bank Of China is linked to a number of companies and projects that BankTrack considers controversial (so called Dodgy Deals), e.g. as a current or past financier or through an expression of interest. The profiles below provide more details on the nature of Postal Savings Bank Of China's link to these deals.

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World Bank is backing dozens of new coal projects, despite climate pledges

New research shows that the IFC is providing back-door support to at least 39 new coal projects throughout China, Indonesia and Cambodia.
2023-10-04 | Inclusive Development International, Recourse, Trend Asia
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Decarbonization: steel not making the cut

Analysis by Reclaim Finance shows that few financial institutions have steel targets, and that those that have been adopted are riddled with flaws
2023-08-23 | Reclaim Finance
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New report: Canadian bank RBC the #1 financier of fossil fuels, world’s biggest banks continued to pour billions into fossil fuel expansion

Annual Banking on Climate Chaos report follows the money and details massive bank support for the world’s worst climate-destroying corporations
2023-04-13 | San Francisco | BankTrack, urgewald, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Rainforest Action Network, Reclaim Finance, Sierra Club
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IFC must stop funding fossil fuels via financial intermediaries, new report says

2023-04-12 | Recourse
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IFC announces it will stop clients funding new coal projects

2023-04-04 | Recourse
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CBIRC releases the Green Finance Guidelines for Banking and Insurance Sectors

2022-06-02 | China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission
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New report: Despite ‘net zero’ rhetoric, world’s biggest banks continued to pour billions into fossil fuel expansion in 2021

Annual Banking on Climate Chaos report follows the money and details massive bank support for the world’s worst climate-destroying corporations
2022-03-30 | San Francisco, Bemidji, Nijmegen, Oakland, Paris, Sassenberg, Washington DC | BankTrack, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Rainforest Action Network, Reclaim Finance, Sierra Club, Urgewald
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Fossil Banks No Thanks demands banks commit to end fossil fuel finance before Glasgow Climate Summit

210+ groups support urgent call to action
2021-09-23 | BankTrack
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Banking on Climate Chaos 2021: World’s 60 largest banks have poured USD 3.8 trillion into fossil fuels since Paris Agreement

Even amidst the global economic downturn, fossil fuel financing numbers were higher in 2020 than 2016
2021-03-24 | Nijmegen | BankTrack, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Rainforest Action Network, Reclaim Finance, Sierra Club
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CBIRC penalises state-owned financial institutions and subsidiaries

2021-01-11 | Regulation Asia
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IFC watchdog investigates Postal Savings Bank of China over loan for Indonesian mine

2020-07-27 | South China Morning Post
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2023-10-04 00:00:00

Blowing Smoke

How Coal Finance is Flowing through the IFC’s Paris Alignment Loopholes
Partner publication
2023-10-04 00:00:00 | IDI
2023-04-13 00:00:00

Banking on Climate Chaos 2023

Annual Banking on Climate Chaos report follows the money and details massive bank support for the world’s worst climate-destroying corporations
BankTrack publication
2023-04-13 00:00:00 | Rainforest Action Network, BankTrack, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Reclaim Finance, Sierra Club, Urgewald
2023-01-27 00:00:00

Background briefing: Just 7% of global banks' energy financing goes to renewables, new data shows

BankTrack publication
2023-01-27 00:00:00 | Profundo for Sierra Club, Fair Finance International, BankTrack, Rainforest Action Network
2023-01-23 00:00:00

Who is Who No. 3 - Chinese commercial banks: an NGO guide

Partner publication
2023-01-23 00:00:00 | Urgewald
2022-09-12 00:00:00

The East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP): Finance Risk Update No. 3 (Chinese version)

东非原油管道：金融风险简报（更新三）
BankTrack publication
2022-09-12 00:00:00 | BankTrack
2022-07-05 00:00:00

CSR report 2021

Annual report
2022-07-05 00:00:00 | Postal Savings Bank of China
2022-04-13 00:00:00

Annual report 2021

Annual report
2022-04-13 00:00:00 | Postal Savings Bank of China
2022-03-30 00:00:00

Banking on Climate Chaos 2022

Despite ‘net zero’ rhetoric, world’s biggest banks continued to pour billions into fossil fuel expansion in 2021
BankTrack publication
2022-03-30 00:00:00 | Rainforest Action Network, BankTrack, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Reclaim Finance, Sierra Club, urgewald
2021-07-06 00:00:00

CSR Report 2020

Annual report
2021-07-06 00:00:00 | Postal Savings Bank of China
2021-06-15 00:00:00

Annual report 2020

Annual report
2021-06-15 00:00:00 | Postal Savings Bank of China
2020-08-01 00:00:00

CSR report 2019

Annual report
2020-08-01 00:00:00 | PSBC
2020-08-01 00:00:00

Annual report 2019

Annual report
2020-08-01 00:00:00 | PSBC
2020-07-15 00:00:00

CSR Report 2018

Annual report
2020-07-15 00:00:00 | PSBC
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PSBC does not operate a complaints or grievances mechanism for individuals or communiteis that might have been affected by the bank's finance.

This page evaluates Postal Savings Bank of China's responses to instances of alleged human rights violations linked to its finance, raised by civil society organisations. It is not intended to be exhaustive, but covers selected impacts raised by BankTrack and other civil society partners since 2016. For the full scoring methodology, see here. For more information about BankTrack's evaluation of bank responses to human rights impacts, see the 2021 report "Actions speak louder: assessing bank responses to human rights violations".

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Banks and Climate

Banks and Climate

The 2023 Banking on Climate Chaos report showed that Postal savings Bank of China provided US$ 14.5 Billion in financing to the fossil fuel industry between 2016 and 2022. Find further details on Postal savings Bank of China fossil fuel portfolio and how it compares to other large banks globally on Fossil Banks No Thanks and in the Banking on Climate Chaos report.

Fossil fuel finance data Postal savings Bank of China

Banking on Climate Chaos fossil fuel finance data

Partner organisation Reclaim Finance tracks the coal, oil and gas policies of financial institutions, including banks, in their Coal Policy Tool (CPT) and the Oil and Gas Policy Tracker (OGPT). BankTrack works closely with Reclaim Finance and endorses their policy assessments. Find further details on their assessment of Postal Savings Bank of China's fossil fuel policy below.

Assessment of Postal savings Bank of China coal policy in the Coal Policy Tool

Assessment of Postal savings Bank of China oil and gas policy in the Oil and Gas Policy Tracker
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