China began investing in green finance in 2016, when PBoC and other six departments released guidance for building out a green finance system. In the meantime, China listed standardization of the financial industry as a crucial target of its 13th Five-Year Plan from 2016 to...
The Cyberspace Administration of China unveiled draft guidelines to limit the scope of how and when mobile apps can collect personal data, as reported by JRJ.com on December 2, 2020. The set of draft rules covers 38 types of apps from online payment and instant...
The increasing urban population and improved living standards in recent years have significantly boosted waste generation in China. According to experts from the Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Research Center for Environmental Policies and Economics and Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, China’s urban...
As of November this year, the stock price of 31 Chinese photovoltaic companies doubled. Photovoltaic solar energy is non-fossil, clean, and renewable, converted from sunlight into electricity based on the photoelectric effect. Leading companies in the industry, including LONGi Green Energy Technology [601012:CH], Shenzhen Inovance...
China Securities Index Co., Ltd. officially released its ESG rating methodology, as reported by Shanghai Securities News on December 3, 2020. The rating system is composed of three dimensions and covers 14 themes, 22 categories and over 100 raw data points. The sources for the...
Chinese financial services provider Ping An Insurance [2318:HK] and state-backed China Economic Information Service (CEIS) have jointly launched a proprietary ESG ratings system specially designed for the Chinese market, namely, the Xinhua CN-ESG System, as reported by Yicai on December 5. The rating system covers...
China’s State Council issued a notice on December 2 to accelerate development of a weather modification system in the country, as reported by Xinhua on the same day. In the next five years, the country intends to cover a total of 5.5m square kilometers, or...
China’s State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) and State Post Bureau (SPB) have recently started implementing a green packaging certification system for China’s express delivery industry, in order to reduce overpackaging and expand the use of green packaging materials in the country, as reported by...
A group of Shenzhen-located enterprises, including Essence Securities, Bosera Funds, China Vanke [2202:HK], Han’s Laser Technology Industry [002008:CH], SF Holdings [002352:CH], Luxshare Precision Industry [002475:CH], jointly launched an initiative, which aims to improve board diversity, as reported by JRJ.com on November 27. The initiative calls...
China has been accelerating agricultural development in recent years, with the country’s primary sector, agricultural activities, recording a total of RMB7.0467tr in value in 2019, up 3.1% from the previous year. In fact, the sector contributed about 7.1% to China’s GDP in the same year....
A CSRC deputy director, Sun Nianrui, spoke at the China Southern Finance International Forum, and emphasized that the regulatory body plans to roll our corporate governance disclosure requirements for listed companies, according to Sina on November 28. The new system would require such companies to...
Hong Kong will play a crucial role in China’s overall green finance development, while also relying on the Mainland for further expansion into the sector China central government plans to develop its green bond market through Hong Kong under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) NDRC and...
Hong Kong government’s contribution to the building of its ESG ecosystem Compared with developed markets such as Europe, the US, and Japan, Hong Kong started relatively late in the ESG space. For reference, in 2016, Hong Kong only accounted for 0.06% of the world’s ESG assets,...
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam has stated in her annual policy address that the special administrative region (SAR) aims to reach net-zero carbon emissions before 2050, as reported by Caixin Global on November 26. According to Carrie Lam, the Hong Kong SAR government will...
China’s Ministry of Finance, National Energy Administration (NEA) and the NDRC have jointly issued a notice, authorizing grid companies such as State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC) and China Southern Power Grid (CSG) to manage the future allocation of renewable energy subsidies, as reported by...
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