An Evaluation of the Sustainable Development Lever of Listed Commercial Banks in China

Abstract

With the in-depth reform and innovation of commercial banks, research on the sustainable development of commercial banks has become a hot topic. This paper conducts an empirical analysis of the level of sustainable development of Chinese 16 listed banks with the factor analysis method, attaining four public factors that affect the sustainable development of commercial banks, namely profitability factor, risk control factor, development capacity factor and liquidity factor. In addition, this paper analyzes the banks’ performances in four factors and their ranking of the sustainable development lever. At last, this paper proposes recommendations from the four aspects for the sustainable development of commercial banks.