CSO Forum and Sustainability Excellence Awards

To accelerate and support the high-quality development, the EY Greater China Region launched the CSO Forum and Sustainability Excellence Awards to identify and recognize best practices in low-carbon transformation and sustainable development; drive the deployment and commercialization of new technology and models; encourage listed companies to play a leading role in advancing sustainable development in China.

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Forging new quality productive forces for global sustainability

This year’s CSO Forum and Sustainability Excellence Awards, themed "Forging new quality productive forces for global sustainability", will continue to follow our professional and rigorous judging criteria to identify outstanding companies, individuals and practices/cases that are accelerating green transformation of industries, exploring high-quality international expansion, proactively adapting to changes and striving for innovation, aiming to recognize leaders in sustainability, discuss innovative practices and share experience of Chinese listed companies in contributing to the country’s high-quality development. Our goal is to encourage more enterprises to embrace "green" and "new" development, provide the world with Chinese solutions and wisdom for modern corporate governance. In doing so, we continuously make our efforts in developing new quality productive forces and make new contributions to global sustainability.

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Awards categories and scope

Nominees, recommended by the organizers and event supporters, are mainly from national and international listed companies of a certain scale. The nominee can be a company, the head of a company, a CSO/leader from sustainability-related functions, and a practice/case.

Company

(Includes but not limited to):

  • Companies excelling in overall ESG performance
  • Companies excelling in one or more areas of ESG
  • Companies leading ESG efforts in their industry

Individual 

(Includes but not limited to):

  • Individuals working at a listed company, including executives responsible for typical sustainability-related business, innovative technical professionals and scientists
  • Influential individuals who initiate, promote or lead sustainability efforts

Practice/Case 

(Includes but not limited to):

  • Low carbon transformation and ESG management projects with leading technology, scalability, clear trends in cost reduction, wider commercial application, comparable advantages in market entry and affordability and significant social effects
  • Dual carbon targets-related road map and best practices/cases
  • Investment projects and financial products with excellent performance in ESG, including but not limited to helping achieve significant low-carbon benefits, supporting pollution prevention and environmental protection projects, creating and increasing jobs, supporting rural revitalization, facilitating the development of small and micro-sized companies, improving healthcare and medical provision, raising education level or increasing educated population, supporting the achievement of common wealth and sustainability targets

Winners of EY Sustainability Excellence Awards

(In no particular order)

  • Special Jury Prize

    • Metallurgical Corporation Of China Ltd.
    • Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Ltd.
  • Excellence Award for Companies

    • Air China Limited
    • China Railway Construction Co., Ltd.
    • China National Building Material Co., Ltd.
    • CGN Power Co., Ltd.
    • China Life Insurance Co., Ltd.
    • Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Ltd.
    • JD.com, Inc.
    • Beijing Oriental Electronics Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    • Beijing Yanjing Brewery Co., Ltd.
    • BAIC BluePark New Energy Technology Co., Ltd.
    • Tongwei Co., Ltd.
    • Haier Smart Home Co., Ltd.
    • CSSC (Hong Kong) Shipping Co., Ltd.
    • Swire Properties Limited
    • GEM Co., Ltd.
    • Xinjiang Tianshan Cement Co., Ltd.
  • Excellence Award for Individuals

    • Christine Loh

    Chief Development Strategist
    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

    • Dr. Shawn Qu

    Chairman and CEO of Canadian Solar Co., Ltd.

  • Excellence Award – Best Practices/Cases

    Financial enablement and empowerment

    • China Construction Bank Corporation 

    Build an innovative ESG rating system to help promote green, low-carbon and high-quality development

    • Bank of China Limited

    Bank of China Macau Branch’s “Biodiversity” themed green bonds

    • Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited 

    ICBC optimizing ESG governance system, Refined ESG governance structure, Improving ESG information disclosure system

    • Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. 

    Ping An AI-ESG intelligent integrated management platform

    • Shanghai Pudong Development Bank Co., Ltd. 

    Establish dual certified “zero-carbon” bank outlets that meet both international and domestic standards 

     

    Technology innovation and advancement

    • Metallurgical Corporation Of China Ltd. 

    Ceri HBIS Zhangxuan tech hydrogen metallurgy demonstration project 

    • Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt Co., Ltd. 

    Establishing the world’s leading green integrated industrial chain cluster of the new energy Li-ion battery materials industry

    • LB Group Co., Ltd. 

    Key technique and industrialization of multi-stage resource utilization of titanium dioxide by-products 

    • GCL Technology Holdings Limited 

    Granular Silicon: Driving global low-carbon energy transition

    • Hengtong Optic-Electric Co., Ltd. 

    R&D and industrialization of green optical communication products

     

    Leading social initiative

    • Greentown China Holdings Limited 

    Greentown Building: 1 Athlete Village of the Asian Games Village

    • China Longyuan Power Group Corporation Limited

    Photovoltaic sand-fixation

    • China Shengmu Organic Milk Limited 

    Moving towards a New Natural Economic Model with benefits for nature

    • Ningxia Xiaoming Agriculture & Animal Husbandry Co., Ltd. 

    Be a pioneer in the green development of China’s egg breeding chicken industry

    • China Tourism Group Duty Free Corporation Limited 

    Discover the beauty of environmental protection at cdf

  • Special Jury Prize

    • Bank of China Limited
    • GD Power Development Company Limited 
  • Excellence Award for Companies

    • GD Power Development Company Limited 
    • Shanghai Electric Group Company Limited
    • Daqin Railway Company Limited 
    • Sumec Company Limited 
    • Anhui Conch Cement Company Limited
    • Geely Automobile Holdings Limited
    • Dayu Irrigation Group Company Limited 
    • ENN Natural Gas Company Limited 
    • Jinko Solar Company Limited 
    • Café de Coral Holdings Limited
  • Excellence Award for Individuals

    • Mr. Ma Jun 

    President
    Institute of Finance and Sustainability

    • Mr. Fu Jianguo 

    Deputy General Manager
    Baoshan Iron & Steel Company Limited 

    • Mr. Xue Keqing 

    Board Secretary
    China State Construction Engineering Corporation Limited

  • Excellence Award – Best Practices/Cases

    Financial enablement and empowerment

    • Bank of China Limited

    Supports biodiversity conservation and green goals for the Beijing Winter Olympics

    • Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited

    Green finance practice 

    • Postal Savings Bank of China Company Limited

    Innovative layout of personal carbon accounts and technology empowers the development of carbon inclusion 

     

    Technology innovation and advancement

    • Baoshan Iron & Steel Company Limited

    “Double carbon” strategy

    • SAIC-GM-Wuling Automobile Company Limited

    Low carbon lifestyle brought by Wuling new energy vehicles

    • Zhejiang Hailiang Company Limited

    Low-carbon intelligent manufacturing technology and equipment research for precision copper tubes 

    • Trina Solar Company Limited

    21MW 600W+ Distributed Photovoltaic Zero-carbon Plant Project in Huzhou, Zhejiang

     

    Leading social initiative

    • China State Construction Engineering

    “Green Stream Initiative” action plan for developing green carbon supply chain 

    • Alibaba Group Holding Limited

    Carbon88 to promote sustainable living 

    • Tencent Holdings Limited

    Carbon neutrality roadmap and practice 

    • GDS Holdings Limited

    Strategic planning for carbon neutrality 

    • Jinyu Biotechnology Company Limited

    Corporate responsibility of controlling zoonotic disease

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