BOC International Holdings Limited is a wholly-owned subsidiary investment banking institution of Bank of China Limited, and it is the main platform for China Bank to carry out investment banking business. BOC International was incorporated in Hong Kong in July 1998, and its predecessor was China Construction Finance (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd., which was established in June 1979.
In February 2002, BOC International, China Petroleum and Natural Gas Group Corporation, China Development and Investment Corporation, Hongta Tobacco (Group) Co., Ltd., China General Technology (Group) Holdings Co., Ltd. and Shanghai State-owned Assets Management Co., Ltd. initiated and jointly funded the establishment of BOC International Securities Co., Ltd. in Shanghai, China, becoming the first Sino-foreign joint venture securities company in the Mainland to obtain a comprehensive securities dealer license for RMB common shares (A shares). In 2000,