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The China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) is one of the two largest shipbuilding conglomerates in China, the other being the China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC). Headquartered in Beijing, the CSSC handles shipbuilding activities in the east and the south of China, while the China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC) deals with those in the north and the west of the country. CSSC is one of the top 10 defence groups in China, consists of various ship yards, equipment manufacturers, research institutes and shipbuilding related companies, some of the well known shipbuilders in China such as Jiangnan Shipyard and Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding are currently owned by CSSC. Its subsidiary, China CSSC Holdings Limited (SSE: 600150), is listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. On 1 July 1999, some of its companies were spun off by the Government to form a separate conglomerate group, China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC).

Postal Savings Bank of China (PSBC) (中国邮政储蓄银行) is a commercial retail bank, which provides basic financial services, especially to small and medium enterprises, rural and low income customers. PSBC has 40,000 branches covering all regions of China. PSBC was set up with an initial capital of RMB20 billion in 2007 from the State Post Bureau. Today it has RMB1.5billion in deposits and the second largest number of branches, after the Agricultural Bank of China. During the Global Financial Crisis, the government took several measures to spread its national economic stimulus plan specifically to rural areas. This included using microfinance services provided by the Postal Savings Bank as a tool for national development and poverty reduction. The bank with its extremely broad reach also assists China’s credit cooperatives in their microcredit schemes.