CR Land Ranks No. 1 in the CSR Development Index of Real Estate Industry for Eight Consecutive Years
On December 3, the 13th Corporate Social Responsibility Blue Book Launch Conference and ESG China Forum Winter Summit 2021 was hosted by the China Social Responsibility 100 Forum in Beijing. Peng Huagang, member of the Party Committee and Secretary General of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (SASAC), attended the conference and delivered a speech. The conference was presided over by Huang Qunhui, Director-General of the Institute of Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The conference released the Blue Book of Corporate Social Responsibility 2021, and CR Land ranked No. 1 in the CSR Development Index of Real Estate Industry for eight consecutive years.
The Blue Book of Corporate Social Responsibility 2021 was compiled by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). The Blue Book, published for 13 consecutive years, is the most authoritative and comprehensive research report on corporate social responsibility in China. The Blue Book 2021 conducted independent, systematic and in-depth research on the social responsibility development of 300 large-scale enterprises in 19 key industries in China, and developed the China CSR development index. In the evaluation on the social responsibility index of the real estate industry, CR Land scored 80.1 points, ranking first in the industry for eight consecutive years. It is also the only company awarded a five-star rating.
The conference also released the China's first Basic Textbook of Environment, Society and Governance (ESG) jointly launched by the SASAC and the CASS. The textbook includes "Four-in-One" Distinctive ESG Information Disclosure Model of China Resources Land Ltd. for its usefulness. As the first and only basic textbook of ESG in China, it is dedicated to addressing the problems and challenges of ESG work carried out by Chinese listed companies, covering the theory, policy, governance and practice of ESG. It is composed of seven chapters, i.e. introduction to ESG, environmental responsibility, social responsibility, ESG governance, ESG information disclosure, ESG rating and ESG investment. It will be applied to multiple scenarios such as university teaching, government training, internal corporate training, external specialized training and online teaching. It is also the most systematic and comprehensive professional tool for Chinese listed companies to advance ESG work, and therefore will provide professional support for ESG education in China.
In the future, CR Land will take ESG as an important step to realize its high-quality development. In other words, it will continue to build a differentiated brand in ESG management practice and information disclosure by continually deepening the concept, optimizing the practice, refining the system and strengthening the connection. In the context of the vigorous development of ESG around the world, it will put more efforts to achieve more inclusive, quality and sustainable development.