Blue Whale News September 18th News (Reporter Jin Lei) On the evening of September 17th, Bank of Changsha announced that the board of directors agreed to appoint Zhang Man as the bank's president. Subsequently, Zhang Man's qualifications as president need to be approved by the Hunan Regulatory Bureau of the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission.

According to the information, Zhang Man was born in May 1972, with a bachelor's degree in Business Administration, a master's degree in Business Management, and is a mid-level accountant and economist. He has previously served as Deputy Director of Changsha County Branch Business Department, Director of Customer Department, Deputy General Manager of Agricultural Bank of China, Changsha Branch, Head of Xingcheng Branch of Bank of Changsha, and Director of Preparatory Office of Hunan Changyin 58 Consumer Finance Co., Ltd. At the end of 2015, Zhang Man took up the position of Deputy General Manager of Bank of Changsha, and it has been 9 years since then.

In fact, there were signs of Zhang Man's new position before. On August 30, the pre-appointment publicity of senior cadres in Changsha City showed that Zhang Man, Deputy General Manager of Bank of Changsha, appeared in the list of pre-appointment notices managed by the municipal party committee, as a 'proposed senior management position in municipal enterprises.'

In March of this year, Bank of Changsha announced that due to work adjustments, Tang Liyong resigned from the positions of President, Director, and Director and Nomination Committee Member of the Board of Directors. Chairman Zhao Xiaozhong took over the duties of the President. Now, after nearly 6 months of acting as the President, the position of President of Bank of Changsha has finally been confirmed.

The announcement issued on the same day also shows that Bank of Changsha will hold an extraordinary shareholders' meeting on October 10, one of the items being 'Proposal to elect Ms. Zhang Man as a director of the Seventh Board of Directors of Bank of Changsha Limited'.

Currently, the board of directors of Bank of Changsha consists of 9 people, namely Chairman Zhao Xiaozhong, shareholder-recommended Li Meng (Changsha Finance Bureau), Huang Zhang (Hunan Communication Industry Service Co., Ltd.), Li Xi (Tong Cheng), Long Guiyuan (Hunan Friendship & Apollo Commercial), and 4 independent directors Zheng Chaoyu, Zhang Ying, Yi Luozhi, and Wang Lijun.

Established in May 1997, Bank of Changsha is the first regional joint-stock commercial bank in Hunan Province and the largest corporate financial institution. It went public on the main board of the Shanghai Stock Exchange in 2018.

From the latest disclosed semi-annual report, Bank of Changsha had total assets of 1.1 trillion yuan at the end of June, also a city commercial bank with a trillion-level scale. During the reporting period, the bank achieved revenue of 13.042 billion yuan, a year-on-year growth of 3.31%, and net income attributable to the parent company of 4.121 billion yuan, a year-on-year growth of 4.01%.