Shanghai Pudong Development Bank

Registered name
上海浦东发展银行股份有限公司
Unified Social Credit Code
9131000013221158XC registered in Shanghai 上海
Stock code
  • SSE:600000 Shanghai Stock Exchange 上海证券交易所

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Shanghai Pudong Development Bank (上海浦东发展银行), the joint-stock commercial bank founded in 1992 at 12 Zhongshan East 1st Road on the Bund, deploys what its partner Baidu describes as the nation’s first financial digital-human assistant: the digital employee Xiao Pu (小浦), jointly developed with Baidu and announced in April 2019 with Baidu and China Mobile — an early enough entry that the 浦发银行-小浦 pairing appears as the service-persona example in the 2022 virtual-human industry commercialization report. Xiao Pu is a digital twin of a real advisor, positioned to extend high-quality advisory service across a customer base of over 80 million, and became the seed case for Baidu Cloud’s “future bank” solution.

The bank has kept investing around the deployment: in April 2026 it filed a patent on a business-data processing method designed to improve the accuracy of digital human-driven product recommendations, and it is presented as a frontrunner in the financial sector’s adoption of metaverse digital-human standards.