Former Executive Director and Vice President of Bank of China, Lin Jingzhen, who resigned from his positions earlier this year, has recently gone missing. Lin Jingzhen had worked at Bank of China for at least 37 years, overseeing several core departments including international, corporate, and personal banking.
News from the financial industry on September 1st revealed that Lin Jingzhen, former Vice President of Bank of China, is suspected to be missing. Attempts to reach Lin Jingzhen on his personal phone resulted in it being switched off.
Public records show that Lin Jingzhen, a male of Han ethnicity, was born in May 1965 in Wangchuan Town, Hui’an County, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province. He graduated from Xiamen University in 1987 with a bachelor’s degree in Economics, and obtained a master’s degree in Business Management from the same university in 2000.
Lin Jingzhen joined Bank of China in 1987 and held various positions throughout his career. From October 2010 to March 2014, he served as General Manager of the Financial Headquarters (Corporate Business) at the bank. From March 2014 to May 2015, he was the General Manager of the Financial Department, and from May 2015 to January 2018, he held the position of Vice President at BOC International Holdings Limited.
In 2015, he was transferred to subsidiary companies BOC Hong Kong Holdings and Bank of China (Hong Kong) as Vice President, where he worked for nearly three years.
Lin Jingzhen returned to the head office in 2018 as Vice President and later also took on roles as Chairman of BOC International Holdings and BOC International Securities. From August 2018 to January 2025, he concurrently served as a non-executive director at BOC Hong Kong Holdings Limited.
On January 7th of this year, Bank of China issued a statement announcing that the board had received Lin Jingzhen’s resignation. Citing age reasons, he stepped down from his positions as Executive Director, member of the Board’s Committee on Corporate Culture and Consumer Rights Protection, member of the Risk Policy Committee, and Vice President of the bank.
In the same month, BOC Hong Kong announced that Lin Jingzhen had resigned from his positions as non-executive director and member of the Strategic and Budget Committee of the company and the bank due to age reasons.
At the time of his resignation, Lin Jingzhen was below 60 years of age and had not reached the retirement age limit.