The 2024 Sustainable Development Report of Zijiang Enterprise has been successfully released, marking the fifth consecutive year that the company has released an ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) report or sustainable development report. Since the company released its first ESG report in 2020, Zijiang Enterprise has continuously summarized numerous specific practices accumulated over the years and established an ESG awareness and data management system. In 2024, the company set higher goals and requirements, focusing on the company's ESG; Guided by the 2.0 strategy, we will outline five management principles: environmentally friendly, circular innovation, win-win cooperation, people-oriented, and transparent governance, in order to showcase the important progress and achievements made by the company in sustainable development from a more systematic perspective.
Adhere to tradition and innovate, further optimize report format
In 2024, the Shanghai Stock Exchange successively issued guidelines and guidelines related to sustainable development reports. Zijiang Enterprises actively responded to the latest regulatory policies, changed the name of the 2024 report to Sustainable Development Report, and conducted topic evaluation for the first time based on the principle of dual importance. The company will prepare separate Chinese and English versions of the 2024 report to enhance the reading experience for readers of different languages. The 2024 Sustainable Development Report further standardizes issues, strictly follows the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standards, and references industry standards such as the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), enhancing the internationalization and comparability of report content.
On the basis of the existing data management system, multiple quantitative summaries have been added, including ISO14001, ISO50001, and ISO45001 management system certifications, completion of ISO14064 greenhouse gas emission certification, joining SBTi scientific carbon targets, obtaining LEED certification, statistics on the number of industry standards participated, average employee training time, safety production training time, and total investment in safety production. Through strong summary data, the company's management mechanisms in all aspects are displayed, and more standardized KPIs are used to respond to the concerns of top customers about the overall management situation of Zijiang Enterprise. Efforts are made to use "with multinational partners; Same language;.
Summarize and simplify complex cases, reduce the stacking of specific cases, summarize and generalize numerous practices, extract the core management mechanisms behind them, restore the top-level design of ESG management in Zijiang Enterprises, and select typical and representative cases to demonstrate the practical effectiveness of various mechanisms. The company focuses on business strategy and leads the issue of circular innovation, fully demonstrating the sustainable business value of the company from the aspects of innovative development and response to the most important concerns of partners in the circular economy.
Remarkable achievements, excellent sustainable development results in 2024
Environment and climate friendly, responsive to the country; Dual carbon; Strategy: The company actively promotes the construction of an environmental management system, formulates and updates EHS policies, regularly organizes training, and solves problems encountered by business units in practical applications; Continuously improving; Three waste pollutants; Establish a standardized and refined management benchmark for water resources management and improve the level of processing; Accelerate green development to address climate change, gradually implement carbon asset management, and strive for low-carbon operations; Continuously strengthening energy management and empowering green operations through digital management, significant achievements have been made in energy structure transformation in recent years, with a significant increase in photovoltaic installation area and photovoltaic power generation.
Focusing on circular innovation and creating sustainable business value: The company takes technological innovation as its core driving force and continuously improves its innovation management mechanism and incentive measures; Establish a digital system that is highly aligned with the business strategy, with a focus on building efficient operational control capabilities; Adhere to lean efficiency and continuously promote the establishment of standardized continuous improvement systems in various enterprises; Integrating the concept of circular economy into enterprise operations and product development, deeply promoting green manufacturing, focusing on reduction, reuse, and resource utilization, actively exploring the resource closed-loop model of circular economy through design innovation, sustainable packaging, and circular regeneration.
Win win cooperation, actively contributing to the development of the industry and society:The company is committed to building a collaborative, efficient, and sustainable industrial ecosystem based on openness and responsibility.; Continuously promoting green innovation and upgrading the value chain through resource integration, sharing wisdom, and establishing long-term cooperative relationships of mutual trust; Integrating the concept of sustainable development into the supply chain management system and strengthening collaborative development with suppliers; Through deep cooperation and innovation with customers, constantly breaking through industry difficulties; Actively participate in community public welfare activities and contribute to the harmonious development of the community.
Putting people first, growing together with employees:The company always adheres to the principle of“ Putting people first; Our development philosophy regards employees as the most valuable asset of the enterprise and is committed to building a humanistic ecology that respects talent and inspires growth; Actively listen to the voices of employees and the community, pay attention to humanistic care, and create a harmonious and win-win working atmosphere; Continuously optimizing the human resources management system, improving the salary and benefits system, and providing a multi-level and multi-channel platform for talent cultivation and career development; We focus on creating a healthy, safe, and comfortable working environment, helping employees achieve a balance between their professional and personal lives, and continuously improving their sense of happiness, belonging, and achievement.
Governance and Foundation Building, Adhering to Long Term Responsibility Mission:The company adheres to the principle of“ Be a clean and honest person, work diligently and conscientiously; Our motto is based on integrity and responsibility, committed to building a modern, transparent, and sustainable governance system; Enhance the company's risk identification, assessment, and response capabilities to ensure the robustness and sustainable development of its operations; Strengthen core data protection mechanisms and enhance employees' awareness of information security to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information assets; Taking business ethics as the core element of corporate governance, it runs through the daily operation and management of the company, and is committed to building a corporate culture of integrity, fairness, and transparency.
Under the strategic guidance of ESG2.0, Zijiang Enterprise's sustainable development achievements in 2024 have also been recognized by external rating agencies for the first time. The latest ESG rating result of the company's Wind ESG rating (2025) is A-level.
More than 30 years of craftsmanship and accumulation have built a solid foundation for Zijiang Enterprise. The genes and value orientation of sustainable development are deeply embedded in the corporate culture. In the era where ESG is moving from a peripheral agenda to a commercial core, Zijiang people will inevitably continue to write the next brilliant chapter of Zijiang Enterprise through deconstruction and reconstruction.