BEIJING, March 27 (Xinhua) -- Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC)'s new lending and bond investment totaled 4.8 trillion yuan (about 694.23 billion U.S. dollars) last year, reaching a record high, the bank revealed on Friday.
The bank said it stepped up support for key areas and weak links in the real economy in 2025, making full efforts to help stabilize employment, business operations, market performance and expectations.
By the end of last year, ICBC's outstanding technology loans stood at roughly 6 trillion yuan, while outstanding loans to the manufacturing sector reached 5.24 trillion yuan.
At the end of 2025, ICBC's outstanding green loans exceeded 6.7 trillion yuan, and the bank had cumulatively issued 125 billion yuan of green financial bonds in the domestic interbank market.
Outstanding loans to core industries of the digital economy exceeded 1 trillion yuan by the conclusion of 2025.
ICBC's total assets stood at 53.48 trillion yuan at the end of last year, up 9.5 percent from the end of 2024.
Its operating revenue rose 1.9 percent year on year to nearly 801.4 billion yuan in 2025, while net profit increased 1 percent year on year to almost 370.77 billion yuan.
As for asset quality, the bank's non-performing loan ratio stood at 1.31 percent at the end of 2025, down 0.03 percentage points from the end of the previous year. ■
