At the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Review Team of Banking Technology Development Prize, ICBC was granted the 2015 Annual Banking Technology Development Grand Prize for its technology strength in host, network, open platform and new business continuity model realized in its two-location three-center project.

Based on the original remote disaster recovery architecture, ICBC’s two-location three-center project realized the transformation from traditional remote recovery model to the business continuity model with two centers in parallel operation. The core system is deployed on two active centers in parallel operation of Shanghai, which allows the one-button transfer of all business and services to the other center in the same city in two minutes and zero data loss, and realizes integrated operation and maintenance management of the three centers at the same time. In addition, the information system layout changes from handling small probability disaster recovery to comprehensively handling various scheduled, unscheduled and emergent failure scenario transfers, which represents an essential leap in terms of reliability and availability and the leading business continuity protection capabilities in the global banking industry. The project gains success after five years’ efforts, with 18 independent innovations completed and a total of 13 national patent applications submitted.

The 2015 Banking Technology Development Review Meeting reviewed the projects from various financial institutions and determined 155 winning projects. The submitted projects came from over 80 applicants involving business continuity, risk management, IT architecture, decision support, operation and maintenance management and product innovation. Totally one Grand Prize, seven first prizes, fifty-five second prizes, and ninety-two third prizes were granted.