March 1990

CCB joined VISA.

May 1990

CCB issued RMB credit cards (MasterCard) in Guangzhou.

February 1991

CCB issued ATM cards in Guangdong.

March 1991

CCB issued credit cards (VISA) in Beijing and some other places.

April 1994

CCB branded all its credit cards as the ¡°Long Card.¡±

April 1994

CCB issued Long savings cards through its Guangzhou branch.

February 1995

CCB issued Long account transfer cards through its Jiangsu branch.

November 1995

CCB issued Long IC cards on an experimental basis in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Wuhan and Shenzhen.

April 1996

CCB issued cards in conjunction with businesses, including ¡°Jinbai Long Card,¡± ¡°Intel Long Card,¡± and ¡°Hope Long Card.¡±

June 1997

CCB Long Card network opened.

October 1998

CCB Long Savings Card joined the Long Card network.

November 1998

CCB issued the ¡°Tsinghua Long Card¡± jointly with Tsinghua University.

January 1999

CCB issued Long Gold cards in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou.

February 1999

CCB issued ¡°Rabbit Housekeeper¡± animal savings cards to teenagers.

May 8, 1999

Sixty-seven credit card issuing branches under CCB¡¯s Liaoning, Hebei, Sichuan, Hunan, Fujian, and Anhui branches joined CCB Long Card Network; savings cards issued by CCB branches in 94 cities, including Beijing, also began networked transactions through the Long Card Network.

December 1999

CCB issued the Jinjiang Long Card jointly with the Jinjiang Group in Shanghai, and expanded business into other regions.

December 12, 2000

CCB Long Card Network Center joined the China Union Pay.

December 2000

CCB offers the first bank card that accepts payment online without a certificate.

November 6, 2001

CCB issued Long RMB debit cards in Guangdong.

January 2002

CCB issued Long savings cards with the ¡°Union Pay¡± logo in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Hangzhou according to the PBoC¡¯s arrangements.

April 2002

CCB issued international debit cards in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangdong.

December 18, 2002

CCB Credit Card Center was established in Shanghai; CCB issued Long international credit cards settled in the USD.

August 8, 2003

CCB issued the dual-currency international standard credit card, the Long Credit Card.

April 15, 2004

CCB offered the consumer password function for the Long Credit Card (dual currencies).