Cross-border business achieves leapfrog growth as HARBIN BANK (06138) supports the northward opening strategy.

In the first half of 2026, HARBIN BANK (06138) focused on cross-border financial business, anchored its strategic positioning as a bridgehead for northward opening, and drove expansion in the scale of cross-border financial business and improvement in service quality. During the reporting period, the Group established a product system covering international guarantees, letters of credit, and forfaiting, comprehensively meeting the cross-border settlement and financing needs of foreign-related enterprises and supporting Chinese enterprises in "going global" and foreign enterprises in "bringing in"; it achieved breakthroughs in business cooperation with multiple cross-border e-commerce platforms and was the first in Heilongjiang Province to enable online processing of border resident mutual-market trade settlement business for specialized cooperatives. The leap in cross-border business has broadened business boundaries and enhanced comprehensive competitiveness, and the Company is expected to continue benefiting from the development opportunities brought by northward opening.