National Industrial Bank of China (NIBC; simplified Chinese: 中国实业银行; traditional Chinese: 中國實業銀行) was a bank established in September 1915 or 1919[1] in Tianjin.
It moved its headquarters to Shanghai in 1932,[citation needed] into a building which became an icon for the bank and was displayed on its banknotes, built in 1929 at the corner of Huqiu and Beijing roads.
That building, designed by Atkinson & Dallas [zh], was renovated in the early 2010s by David Chipperfield Architects to become part of the Rockbund Art Museum complex.
[1] The NIBC provided funding for the KMT government in Shanghai's various projects around the city, and also issued bank notes.
[citation needed] The bank's former manager Liu Huizhi was a collector of antiques and rare books, and in the early 1930s financed a dedicated building to host his collection, which still survives in Shanghai.