In the recently released Wind 2025 ESG rating results, Yuexiu Property (0123.HK), priding outstanding environmental governance, social responsibility, and corporate governance (ESG) practices, has earned “AA” rating, plus attained the highest comprehensive ESG score among the 366 real estate management and development companies rated, setting a new benchmark for sustainable development in the real estate sector.
Since publishing its first corporate social responsibility (CSR) report in 2010, Yuexiu Property has incorporated sustainable development into its core corporate strategy. After 15 years of hard work, it has established a comprehensive sustainable development management system and policy framework to help it actively implement sustainable development concepts in daily operations and promote a sustainable future for the company and relevant stakeholders, including shareholders, customers, employees, and communities.
Safeguarding ecological balance and actively responding to climate change
Yuexiu Property understands that the survival of a real estate corporation is tied essentially to natural resources. Thus, it systematically kicked off early work on nature-related financial disclosures with the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) framework as reference. By 2024, it had completed biodiversity assessments across its entire value chain and in 10 key project cities, allowing it to promote ecological balance through resource management. Additionally, in response to the country’s “dual carbon” policy for addressing climate change, in 2024, Yuexiu Property reviewed and updated its own “dual carbon” targets set in as early as 2022 to better integrate carbon reduction action plans into its business lifecycle. To incentivize all employees to participate in climate change alleviation, Yuexiu Property utilizes the “Personal Carbon Footprint” module in its ESG management system to track the carbon emissions generated from each employee's business travel in real time. Based on their annual reduction in business travel carbon emissions, employees are awarded honorary titles in different tiers - such as “Green Guardian”, thereby promoting green and low-carbon travel.
Fulfilling corporate responsibility and building a sustainable society
Yuexiu Property is committed to pioneering good urban life. In 2024, it launched two major innovative projects, namely the “Sustainable Development Badge” and the “Green Living Path”, aiming to build a community ecosystem and a sustainable development model that give more room for participation by residents and for healthy circulation of community resources. Moreover, the company has remained committed to fulfilling its social responsibilities, focusing on the synergistic development of education platforms and rural revitalisation. Via establishing an education ecosystem, it carries out “poverty alleviation and intellectual support” initiatives. Together with the Marriott International, it has established an “International Hotel Training Base” in the Bailidujuan Administrative Area in Bijie, Guizhou Province, a sustainable development model that integrates the “education chain, industrial chain, and talent chain”, to provide young people with the métier to grow over time and lowering the barriers to better quality of life of low-income groups.
Building a sustainable governance system and developing sustainable finance
Yuexiu Property has established a sustainable governance framework adopting a systematic strategic approach. In April 2025, it renamed the “Environmental, Social and Governance Committee” as the “Sustainability Committee” to effect more in depth integration of its strategic objectives with sustainable development. It has in place currently a top-down sustainability management structure, comprising the Board of Directors, the Sustainability Committee, the Sustainability Leadership Group, and the Sustainability Executive Group. Driven by its sustainable governance system, Yuexiu Property has kept deepening its sustainable finance strategy, exploring various forms of sustainable financing, including green bonds, green loans, and loans linked to sustainable development performance, to support the company's sustainable development. Following introducing its first sustainable financing framework plus issuing its first green bond in 2024, Yuexiu Property signed its first sustainability-linked loan in June 2025, aiming to ultimately achieve 100% sustainable finance by 2060 or earlier.
To Yuexiu Property, making the top spot in the Wind ESG industry rating not only represents strong recognition for its deep commitment to sustainable development in the past 15 years, but is also giving it powerful motivation to keep up the good work. The company understands that as a member of the real estate industry, it has an important mission, which is to lead the industry's green transformation and drive sustainable social progress. Looking ahead, it will continue to uphold its “Beyond excellence” corporate spirit, vigorously advance development of green buildings and smart communities, actively engage in community development and philanthropic initiatives, as well as collaborate with all stakeholders to redefine the paradigm of long-term sustainable development of the real estate sector through a long-term perspective.