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Exhibit 1

Chinese Insurance Companies

Company

Founded

Headquaters

Registerd-capitals (billion yuan)

1996 Premium income (billion yuan)

PICC Group

1949

Beijing

20

63.4*

People's Insurance (Property)

1996

Beijing

2

35

People's Insurance (Life)

1996

Beijing

1.5

21.2

People's Insurance

(Reinsurance)

1996

Beijing

2

7.2

Pacific Insurnace

1991

Shanghai

2

9.82

Ping An

1998

Shenzhen

1.5

10.5

Huatai General Insurance

1986

Beijing

1.33

-

Xinhua Life Insurance

1996

Beijing

0.5

0.26

Tai Kang Life Insurance

1996

Beijing

0.6

0.147

XinJiang Corps Insurance

1986

Urumqi

0.1

0.24

TianAn

1994

Shanghai

0.2

0.3

Da Zhong

1995

Shanghai

0.21

0.2

Yong An General Insurance

1996

Xi An

0.68

--

Sinosafe General Insurance

1996

Shenzhen

0.3

--

 

* 1996 premium income for the PICC Group excludes the company’s nine overseas branches but includes figures for the group's three subsidiaries-People's Insurance (Property) Co., People's Insurance (Life) Co. and People's Insurance (Reinsurance) Co. Total premium income from the nine overseas branches was over four billion yuan in 1996.

 

Sources:

  1. 1. Figures provided by the aforementioned insurance companies cover the year ending December 31, 1996.
  2. 2. "Insurance Reform and Development," 1997.

 


Exhibit 2

Foreign Insurance Companies in China 

 

Company Country Base Year
Approval
Type of Insurance Insurance Offered
American International Group Inc. United States 1992 Life and Property
Tokio Marine & Fire Insurance Co. Japan 1994 Property
American International Group Inc. United States 1995 Life
American International Group Inc. United States 1995 Property
Manulife Financial Canada 1996 Property
Winterthur Schweizerische Versicherungs Gesellschaft Switerland 1996 Property
Allianz AG Germany 1997 Life
Aetna Inc. United States 1997 Life
Roya & Sun Alliance Insurance Group Plc. United Kingdom 1998 Property
Colonial Mutual Life Insurance Australia 1998 Life
AXA-UAP France 1998 Life

 

Sources: Ji Chen and  Stephen C. Thomas; US Government, International Market Insight, August, 1998; The US-China Business Council.
   


Exhibit 3

Examples of Life Insurers with Representative Offices in China

Company No. of cities Company No. of cities
Aetna 2 AGF 1
Allianz 2 AIG 2
AIA 2 American Re 1
AXA 1 Londin Life 1
CIGNA 1 Colonial Mutual 1
Commercial Union 1 Daiichi Mutual 1
Eagle Star 2 GAN 1
General Accident 1 ING 4
Jardines (CMG) 2 John Hancock 1
Manulife 5 Metropolitan Life 1
National Mutual 1 Nippon Life 2
Principal Mutual 1 Prundential Assurance 3
Sumitomo Mutual 1 Sun Alliance 2
Sun Life 2 Toho Mutual 1
Transanerica 1 Travellers 1
UAP 1 Unipol 1
Winterthur 4 Zurich 1

Source: Woodrow Milliman, 1998
 “AIG reaches GuangZhou”, http://www3.xls.com/cgi-bin/ 1998
  


 

Exhibit 4: Chinese Insurance Market Premiums (1991-99)

 

Year

Total Premiums

(billions of US$)

1991

 282.00

1992

 564.00

1993

 1,184.40

1994

 2,250.36

1995

 4,500.72

1996

 8,551.37

1997

 13,000.00

1998

 15,520.00

1999

 17,412.50

  


 

Exhibit 5: Company Shares of the Chinese Insurance Market (1996)

 

People's Property Insurance

 35.00

People's Life Insurance

 21.20

People's ReInsurance

 7.20

Pacific Insurance

 9.82

PingAn Insurance

 -  

Hua Tai General Insurance

 0.26

XinHua Life Insurance

 0.15

TaiKang Life Insurance

 0.24

XinJiang Insurance

 0.30

Da Zhong Insurance

 0.20

YongAn General Insurance

 -  

SinoSafe General Insurance

 -  

 


 

Exhibit 6: Foreign and Domestic Company Market Share in Shanghai (1996 and 1997)

 

Year

Foreign Companies

Domestic Companies

1996

20%

80%

1997

7%

93%

 



Exhibit 7: Zhangzhou Property Insurance Market Forecast

 

Year

GNP(billion Yuan) in Zhangzhou

Total population

(million)

Per capita income for rural area

(Yuan)

Market potential in terms of insurance penetration

Market potential in terms of insurance density

1997

222.66

7.556

2034

1.48

2.4

2000

290

8.00

3000

2.1

3.99

2010

900

8.75

10000

6.42

14.57

   


Exhibit 8: Insurance Premiums in the Yellow River Delta (thousands of yuan) 

Year

1993

1993

1994

1995

Property insurance

85557

106453

128151

215280

Life insurance

38915

26732

23607

35366

 

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