2008年10月21日，中国工商银行多哈分行在卡塔尔首都多哈正式开业，成为继前一日中国工商银行（中东）有限公司开业后，工行在中东地区成立的第二家经营机构。

工行多哈分行位于“卡塔尔金融中心”，拥有卡塔尔金融中心监管局颁发的“一类许可”业务牌照，可以提供包括存贷款、自营和代理投资、投资咨询和管理、安排投资交易、安排托管服务等在内的全方位的金融服务。

卡塔尔是中东地区重要的能源出口国，拥有得天独厚的地理位置、资源优势和自由开放的金融环境。近年来，中卡两国在经贸、能源等领域的合作有了长足的进展，两国经济互补优势得到有效发挥。2007年双边贸易额达到12.1亿美元，同比增长21%。截至2007年底，中国在卡塔尔累计完成工程承包和劳务合作营业额达到9.3亿美元。中卡两国经贸往来的快速发展，迫切需要双方深化在金融领域的合作，这为工商银行在多哈开设分行提供了良好的机遇。

中国工商银行姜建清董事长在工行多哈分行开业典礼上表示，多哈分行将与前一日开业的工银中东一起，充分利用各自的地理位置优势、业务经营范围及客户资源，协同互补、为中国与中东地区的客户提供长期、优质的金融服务，共同高效推进工行在整个中东地区的发展，提升其在中东地区乃至全球的竞争力。

中国工商银行是中国最大的商业银行，拥有雄厚的客户基础，领先的信息科技水平以及多元化的产品优势，在主要业务领域均处于本土领先地位。自2006年在上海和香港同步上市以来，工行的经营管理水平和盈利能力持续快速提升，2008年上半年，工商银行实现税后利润约95亿美元，成为全球最盈利的银行。近年来, 在经济一体化、金融全球化的大背景下，伴随着中国企业“走出去”后衍生出的巨大跨境金融服务需求，工行一直在积极推进国际化经营战略，加快境外机构布局，拓宽业务领域，努力提升跨境金融服务能力。截至2008年6月末，工行已将营业机构延伸至全球15个国家和地区，分支机构总数达126家，并与122个国家和地区的1360家银行建立了代理行关系，形成了一个覆盖国际金融中心和中国主要经贸往来地区，层次分明、定位合理、渠道多样、运营高效的全球化金融网络服务平台。

ICBC Opens Doha Branch

On October 21st, 2008, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China held a grand opening ceremony in Doha, the capital of Qatar, and formally opens its Doha (QFC) branch. This is the second business institution opened by ICBC in the Middle East, only one day after the opening of ICBC (Middle East).

Located at Qatar Financial Center (QFC), ICBC Doha (QFC) branch as a category 1 bank can provide a comprehensive range of financial services, including deposit taking, providing credit facilities, dealing in investments, managing investments, advising on investments, arranging deals in investments, arranging the provision of custody services, etc..

As an important energy exporter in the Middle East, Qatar is endowed with unique geographical advantage, rich resources, and a free and open financial environment. In recent years, China and Qatar have witnessed great development in cooperation in economy, trade, energy and other fields, and have given an effective play to the complementarities between both economies. In 2007, bilateral trade hit USD 1.21 billion, up by 21% year-on-year. As of the end of 2007, the turnover of project contracting and labor cooperation completed by China in Qatar has reached USD 930 million. The rapid development in economic and trade exchanges between the two countries has created urgent needs for both sides to deepen financial cooperation, thus providing an excellent opportunity for ICBC to open a branch in Doha.

Jiang Jianqing, chairman of ICBC, said at the opening ceremony of Doha branch that the branch will join hands with ICBC (Middle East) which opened one day before, make full use of their respective advantages of geographical location, scope of business and clients, and provide clients with long-term, high-quality financial services, in an effort to jointly promote the ICBC’s development in the Middle East, and to enhance its regional and global competitiveness.

As China's largest commercial bank, ICBC has a solid client base, advanced IT platform, and diversified products; it maintains a leading position in all the major business areas in China. After share listings in Shanghai and Hong Kong in 2006, its management expertise and profitability have witnessed sharp increase. In the first half 2008, ICBC realized after-tax profits of USD 9.5 billion, making it the world's most profitable bank. In recent years, under the backdrop of economic integration and financial globalization, taking notice of the huge demand from Chinese enterprises which have adopted the “Going-out” strategy, ICBC has been actively promoting the strategy of internationalization, speeding up the extension of overseas network, widening the field of business, in an effort to enhance the ability of cross-border financial services. As at the end of June 2008, ICBC has extended business institutions to 15 countries and regions, with a total of 126 branches and subsidiary banks, and established correspondent bank relationship with 1360 banks in 122 countries and regions. ICBC has initially formulated a multi-level-structured, reasonably positioned, and efficiently operated global financial service network with diverse channels, which covers major international financial centers, and China's major economic and trade cooperation regions.