On August 28, 2025, the Hong Kong Quality Assurance Agency (HKQAA) and Hang Seng Indexes Company Limited released their annual sustainability ratings. Yuexiu Property earned an “A+” rating, better than last year. That is also the third year in a row the rating of the company climbed, fully reflecting the continuous enhancement it has made in sustainability management, information disclosure, and substantive performance, helping consolidate its industry leadership.

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Since 2014, Hang Seng Indexes Company has appointed the independent professional body Hong Kong Quality Assurance Agency (HKQAA) to conduct annual sustainability performance assessments of listed companies. Covering approximately 500 Hong Kong-listed companies and 1,300 A-share enterprises, the assessment provides key reference in evaluating corporate ESG performance. Furthermore, the rating serves as a core criterion for Hang Seng Indexes Company in selecting constituent stocks for its ESG indexes, such as the Hang Seng Corporate Sustainability Index Series. Those indexes provide authoritative benchmarks to the sustainable investment market.

The latest report from Hang Seng Indexes Company shows Yuexiu Property’s ESG performance among the top 30% of 68 peer companies and top 20% of 528 constituent companies. Particularly on environmental issues, the company scored higher than 90% of the evaluated enterprises. As for its scores in corporate governance, human rights, and community engagement and development, it performed better than 80% of the evaluated companies. In the index review announced on August 22, Yuexiu Property was included in the Hang Seng Corporate Sustainability Benchmark Index for the second consecutive year. That achievement has not only evidenced the industry-leading capabilities of the company in ESG management, but also its overall sustainability performance being markedly above market average standard.

With emphasis on long-term development, Yuexiu Property has integrated sustainability in great depth into every aspect of its corporate strategy and operations. For 15 consecutive years, it has systematically and with transparency disclosed its practices, their progress and outcomes, and innovation efforts in the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) realms:

• In environmental protection, Yuexiu Property has developed and implemented its innovative “Near-Zero Pollution Finishing” system, applying in projects like the company's R&D center and the Four Seasons Hotel Guangzhou. That system, through meticulous management and control of all stages of a project from design, selecting materials, construction to acceptance, is able to significantly reduce pollution and better protect the health of customers and their quality of living. Regarding climate information disclosure, the company has completed mapping of its Scope 3 greenhouse gas materiality framework and plans to in two phases systematically collect relevant carbon emissions data and analyse them. At the same time, Yuexiu Property is actively promoting building carbon credit trading in pilot projects, responding with concrete actions to the nation’s strategic direction of green and low-carbon transformation and carbon market development.

Photo: Yuexiu Property R&D Center's near-zero pollution finish show flat and its near-zero pollution gold certification

• Regarding social responsibility, always putting the health and wellbeing of its employees, customers and other stakeholders at the core of its strategies, Yuexiu Property has continuously pursued extensive implementation of its healthy building concepts. In January 2025, the company's commercial projects secured 18 WELL Building Standard certifications, including three Platinum certifications and 15 WELL HSR certifications, testifying to its systemic achievements in creating healthy living environments. Commencing in 2024, the company has fully integrated the “Yuexiu Healthy House System” into its residential operations, emphasising health and safety standards throughout the entire project lifecycle – from design and materials to spatial management – to address clients' demand for high quality healthy living. Applying its “commercial + residential” dual-engine strategy, Yuexiu Property continually pushes to expand the boundaries of healthy, sustainable communities. By providing environmental health assurance, it safeguards all stakeholders and continuously leads the industry into a new era of healthy living environment.

• Regarding corporate governance, Yuexiu Property formally renamed its “Environment, Social and Governance Committee” as the “Sustainability Committee” on 17 April 2025. It also seized the opportunity to upgrade overall its sustainability strategy framework, establishing a multi-tiered, systematic governance structure comprising “the Board of Directors, the Sustainability Committee, Sustainability Leadership Group, and Sustainability Executive Team”, with the aim of strengthening decision-making and the execution of sustainable development mechanisms. Furthermore, the company has kept refining its ESG management policy system. In August 2025, it issued a set of new Information Security Policy and Code of Business Conduct and Ethics, clearly defining management commitments and behavioural standards in data security, cybersecurity, and business ethics, showing the company's leadership in putting responsible governance and risk management into practice.

Earning the HKQAA Sustainability “A+” rating represents Yuexiu Property's solid practices in sustainable development gaining international authoritative recognition. That is not only a significant milestone in the company's development, but also a new starting point for it to advance towards higher-quality sustainable development. With global climate governance and urban low-carbon transformation in critical stage now, Yuexiu Property has remained steadfast in aligning with the nation's dual carbon strategy, actively addressing climate change, and has kept working on expanding the extent of its green building initiatives, fostering healthy communities, and supporting philanthropy. It is determined to reinvent the industry's sustainable development model with its eyes on the future, collaborating with all stakeholders to build low-carbon, inclusive, and sustainable cities.