OREANDA-NEWS. December 07, 2011. Agricultural Bank of China (ABC) was granted the title of "2011 Excellent Service Organization for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs)" in the "Fifth Session of China SME Festival", the second consecutive year for ABC winning the honor, reported the press-centre of ABC.

"China SME Festival" is a nationwide SME event hosted by China SMEs Association. Under the environments of global economic turmoil, complicated domestic SME business conditions and increasing operating pressure, this session of SME Festival has been widely concerned by the social sectors, with total 800 of the representatives from large commercial banks, some known experts and scholars as well as representatives of SME entrepreneurs participating in the Festival, relevant leaders from SME Banking Department of ABC attended the Festival on behalf of ABC.

The theme of the Festival is "Innovation and Transformation, Service and Responsibility", aiming to drive the SMEs to carry out independent innovation and transformation development, expecting the SME service organizations to support the development of SMEs with their senses of responsibility and mission to optimize the enterprise development environment.
Being with prominent performance in servicing SMEs, ABC was granted the title of "2011 Excellent Service Organization for SMEs" in the Festival. The "County Industrial Clusters Guaranteed Loan" of ABC was granted the "2011 Excellent SMEs Servicing Product Award"; while the three persons as Chen Zhiliang from Jiangsu Wuxikeji Sub-Branch, Shen Jinwei from Zhejiang Hangzhou Xiaoshan Sub-Branch and Chen Hong from Banking Department of Guangdong Branch were granted the title of "Outstanding SME Service Star".