Recently, at the 2024 Beijing News Shell Finance Annual Conference "Opportunities and Challenges in the Era of Strong ESG Supervision" theme forum, the "ESG Quality Report of Shell Finance's Private Listed Companies" was released.
Through a systematic evaluation of the 2023 ESG report disclosure of 819 private listed companies in the A-share market, the report identified 25 benchmark companies that meet the standards to demonstrate and assist private enterprises in ESG information disclosure and practice. Among them, Sany Heavy Industry was rated as "ESG Pioneer of Shell Finance Private Listed Companies" for the second consecutive year, fully demonstrating Sany's high-quality performance in environmental, social and corporate governance.
Since 2022, Beike Finance has continued to carry out research on the ESG practices of listed companies in mainland China, and this is the third consecutive year that the relevant research results have been released. Beike Finance's ESG evaluation system is composed of management practices and public opinion risk events, which comprehensively reflects the ESG governance and ESG risks of enterprises, and summarizes a series of ESG sub-topics according to the characteristics of different industries and the issues that different stakeholders focus on, and sets the weights of each index topic in a balanced and applicable principle.
At present, Sany actively promotes the "three modernizations" strategy of globalization, digital intelligence and low-carbonization, promotes the digital transformation of production processes, management systems and business models through the global layout of production bases and R&D centers, and practices green manufacturing, energy conservation and emission reduction and circular economy, so as to accelerate the company's growth and promote the construction of a first-class enterprise.
In 2023, Sany Heavy Industry's clean energy consumption will reach 44,815,900 kWh, with a clean energy use ratio of 6.55%, and the energy-saving and consumption-reducing projects carried out in the process of operation will save about 112 million yuan in energy costs. The company donated about 27.872 million yuan to various social welfare funds such as disaster relief and anti-epidemic, rural revitalization, public welfare education, and material donations, and carried out a total of 76 public welfare and volunteer service activities, with a total of 11,200 people participating.
In the process of evaluating the brand value of private enterprises, Beike Finance pays special attention to the intellectual property rights of enterprises. Giving more weight to patent rights and trademark rights is in essence a high recognition of the enterprise's innovation ability, market potential and long-term development prospects. In 2023, Sany Heavy Industry will actively assume the responsibility of the industry leader, attach great importance to the protection of intellectual property rights, invest 6.101 billion yuan in R&D, accounting for 8.33% of operating income, apply for 1,533 patents, authorize 854 valid invention patents, and participate in the preparation and release of 19 national standards and 4 industry standards.
Beike Finance said that ESG information in mainland China is gradually moving towards the stage of mandatory disclosure, and ESG has accelerated to become a "must-answer question" for enterprises. Sany will adhere to the people-oriented and innovation-driven, contribute to the realization of global sustainable development goals, and create greater value for employees, shareholders and society.