eng Science and Education Publishing Journal of Finance and Economics 2328-7276 2018-08-31 6 5 186 192 10.12691/jfe-6-5-4 JFE2018654 article Yanli Zhu 1 2 Yutian Wu jayce_0817@163.com 2 Yingnan Sun 2 Business School, Institute of Industrial Economics, Hohai University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 211100, China In the context of China's economic New Normal, the operating environment of China's listed commercial Banks is facing great changes. It is urgent for Chinese listed commercial banks to improve their financial performance so as to enhance their core competitiveness. This paper applies the factor analytic approach to assess the financial performance of 15 Chinese listed commercial banks, including 4 state-owned commercial banks, 8 national joint-stock commercial banks and 3 local city commercial banks as the object of our study. In this paper, a new financial performance evaluation system is constructed based on the financial data for these banks. A comparison of different types of banks and different banks of the same type is also conducted. Based on the comparison results, some suggestions are further provided to solve the current problems. http://pubs.sciepub.com/jfe/6/5/4/jfe-6-5-4.pdf listed commercial bank financial performance factor analysis