Making solid progress in technology finance, green finance, inclusive finance, pension finance and digital finance is a focal point in providing financial services to support high-quality development of the real economy, and a significant aspect of deepening the supply-side structural reform of the finance sector.
Bank of China places significant emphasis on financial support for achieving high-level technological self-reliance and self-strengthening. The bank is committed to promoting strategic planning, high-standard services and high-quality development in technology finance.
In a landmark move in finance, Bank of China (BOC) assisted China Southern Power Grid to issue 5 billion yuan ($723.38 million) in "Green+" themed bonds in the interbank bond market as its global strategic partner.
The concept of inclusive finance dates back to 15th-century Italy, where the first government-controlled pawnshops and those established by the Roman Catholic Church emerged. In the 20th century, the successful experiment of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh sparked a global wave of microcredit, which gradually evolved into microfinance.
Bank of China actively served the national strategy of responding to China's aging population and deployed comprehensive resources in the three areas of pension finance, personal pension finance, and eldercare industry finance, focused on the three major customers groups of governments, enterprises and individuals, and continued to construct a high-quality pension financial service system.
On June 11, at a forum on renminbi internationalization at the 2025 China-Singapore (Chongqing) Connectivity Initiative New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor (CCI-ILSTC) Trade and Financial Conference, Bank of China launched the BOC Cross-border E-Commerce Connect payment collection service.
