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5 MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION AND ANALYSISAt branch level, there are risk supervisors in tier-one branches, who report to the chief risk officer, and are responsible for organising riskmanagement and credit approval within the branch. There are risk heads at tier-two branches and risk managers at sub-branches, responsible forrisk management in their respective branch or sub-branch. The risk management personnel have two reporting lines: the first reporting line is torisk management officers at higher levels, and the second is to managers of their respective entities or business units.At subsidiary level, the Bank vigorously promotes the establishment of a comprehensive risk management framework. It strengthens prospectiverisk management and consolidation of risk management at group level, enhances internal control and internal audit system to lead and pushforward the subsidiaries to launch their risk self-examination and investigation in order to discover and improve internal control deficiencies andproblems in time.5.3.2 Credit Risk ManagementCredit risk represents the potential loss that may arise from the failure of a debtor or counterparty to meet its obligation or commitment to theBank.In <strong>2012</strong>, by treating prevention of systematical and regional risks and maintaining the asset quality stable as its core tasks in credit riskmanagement, the Bank enhanced risk control and early warning for key industries, regions, and large credit customers, dealt with risks in a timelyand effective manner, and continued to promote credit structure adjustments. All these led to further improvement in the credit risk managementand the asset quality remained stable.Strengthening risk warning and precaution, as well as the prospectiveness of risk management. The Bank strengthened monitoring and analysisover the warning indicators of asset quality. For overdue loans, the Bank sent out respective reminders to involved branches, supervisedthe operation of each account, and circulated monthly notices, to effectively mitigate potential risks. Precautions were published, andcountermeasures were adopted in advance for areas of photovoltaic industry, steel trade, shipping, agency trust, commercial property mortgage,external fraud, private enterprise, private lending, and financial risks of non-financial companies.Performing proactive management over key points to prevent systematic and regional risks. The Bank conducted, by level and by category,on-site diagnosis and evaluations, and off-site investigation on key areas, made risk diagnosis of each large credit customer with potential risks,studied and judged over the key risk elements causing possible systematic risks, and established effective countermeasures to ensure proactivemanagement and precise strike against the risks.Accelerating response and handling of risks to ensure stable asset quality. According to the practical situation of risk exposures in the areas,the Bank carried out countermeasures, such as early recovery, transfer, restructuring, and strengthening the risk mitigation, to accelerate riskresolutions with improved efficiency.Optimising credit policies to promote structure adjustments and operating capabilities. The Bank established credit policies of <strong>2012</strong>, accordingto the general risk preference of the whole bank, specified the focus of credit business, and carried out active credit exit. With a close watch onthe macroeconomic situation and market changes, the Bank made timely re-examination and adjustments to its credit policies. The Bank alsodifferentiated the credit policies between regions, profiting from the comparative location advantages. The Bank well implemented the policies onthe whole, and continuously optimised the structure adjustments, with a higher proportion of prime customers.Adjusting credit authorisation in time to optimise the credit approval management system. The Bank optimised the overall control ofcredit authorisation over customer aggregate risk exposures, including wealth management business and entrusted loans, enhanced thecomprehensive control of individual customer risk exposure, and standardised the sub-authorisation management of branches and sub-branches.In light of the development of business, the Bank timely revised the authorisation of branches and of credit operations. Differentiated creditapproval mode was created for group clients, in compliance with the management concept of “active credit authorisation” and by enhancingthe material risk judgement. The Bank published the Management Measures on Global Credit Authorisation of China Construction Bank, toencourage the sound development of cross-border financing activities between domestic and overseas branches, to promote the Bank’smanagement abilities and the related services around the world.Deepening the development and application of risk management tools to promote the portfolio risk management abilities. The Bank carried outthe unified measurement and management of economic capital of all on and off-balance sheet businesses, extended the management scope ofindustry limits, and explored sufficiently the use of economic capital and risk-adjusted return on capital (RAROC) in customer selection, productallocation, loan pricing, credit approval, resource allocation and performance appraisal. Corporate customer rating model and retail customerscorecards were developed and optimised to support the customer selection, credit authorisation and approval, product pricing, post-loanmanagement and retail transformation. The Bank launched its credit risk stress testing system, covering the Bank’s credit assets portfolio,with multi-functions leading the industry. It conducted stress tests in areas such as macro economy, real estate industry and local governmentfinancing vehicles, providing strong support to the decision-making in operation and management.44 China Construction Bank Corporation annual report <strong>2012</strong>

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