Jing Shuping

Jing Shuping (Chinese:经叔平, 7 July 1918 – September 14, 2009) was a Chinese businessman who founded the Minsheng Bank, the first privately owned bank to open in the CommunistPeople's Republic of China, in 1996.^[1]

Jing Shuping graduated from Saint John's University in Shanghai in 1939.^[1] He was Chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce and Vice Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference until 2002, and held the rank of a national leader of China. He also became a director within the China International Trust and Investment Corp, which is now known as the CITIC Group, the Chinese government's state-owned investment group.^[1]

Jing founded Minsheng Bank in 1996. He resigned as chairman of the bank in 2006 citing declining health. However, he remained the honorary chairman of the bank following his retirement.^[1] Additionally, Jing opened China's first law firm, consulting firm and accounting firm since the 1949 Chinese Communist Revolution.^[1]

Jing Shuping died on September 14, 2009, in Beijing at the age of 91.^[1]