China Construction Bank (hereinafter referred to as China Construction Bank or CCB, originally named People's Construction Bank of China and renamed China Construction Bank on March 26th, 1996) was established on October 1st, 1954 (Jiawu year). It is a joint-stock commercial bank and one of the five largest state-owned commercial banks. The main business areas of China Construction Bank include corporate banking, personal banking and treasury business. There are 14,121 branches in China (in 212), branches in Hongkong, Taiwan Province and Melbourne, and many subsidiaries such as CCB Fund, CCB Leasing, CCB Trust, CCB Life Insurance, Sino-German Housing Savings Bank, CCB Asia, CCB London, CCB Russia, CCB Dubai and CCB International.