CFIC Introduction
In recent years, with its continuous improvement of quality and efficiency in ESG management, Guohai Securities has been listed in the list of 100 Best Practices of the Board of Directors of Listed Companies by the China Association of Listed Companies, the list of "ESG Pioneer 100 Index of Listed Companies of State-owned Enterprises" selected by the Blue Book of Social Responsibility of State-owned Assets and State-owned Enterprises (2023), and the "Annual Case Award" of the 17th People's Corporate Social Responsibility Award issued by People's Daily Online.
Recently, a number of ministries and commissions jointly issued the "Guiding Opinions on Further Strengthening Financial Support for Green and Low-Carbon Development" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions"), and the three exchanges in Shanghai, Shenzhen and North will also officially implement the "Guidelines for Sustainability Reporting of Listed Companies" from May 1 this year, and the construction of the domestic ESG ecosystem will continue to be strengthened. As one of the first securities companies to be established and the 16th to be listed in China, Guohai Securities has long practiced ESG concepts in green finance and operations, social responsibility, corporate governance and other aspects, and promoted high-quality development with ESG as the starting point.
In recent years, with its continuous improvement of quality and efficiency in ESG management, Guohai Securities has been listed in the list of 100 Best Practices of the Board of Directors of Listed Companies by the China Association of Listed Companies, the list of "ESG Pioneer 100 Index of Listed Companies of State-owned Enterprises" selected by the Blue Book of Social Responsibility of State-owned Assets and State-owned Enterprises (2023), and the "Annual Case Award" of the 17th People's Corporate Social Responsibility Award issued by People's Daily Online.
Create green finance and promote green development
Closely follow the main line of science and technology, digital and green finance, and serve the development of the real economy and new quality productivity. In 2023, Guohai Securities will invest and finance more than 20 billion yuan for national enterprises, underwrite more than 65 billion yuan of financial bonds and local government bonds, and 4.8 billion yuan in the fields of science and technology, green and digital, of which the scale of underwriting green bonds ranks 25th in the industry, up 21 places year-on-year. Published 2,818 research reports in the fields of science and technology, TMT and other fields. Actively participate in the opening up and development of the financial sector, sign a strategic cooperation agreement with EVS Securities in Vietnam, and explore new paths for cross-border financial cooperation.
Invest responsibly and create an ESG investment culture. Guohai Franklin, a subsidiary of Guohai Securities, considers the "corporate governance" indicators and monitors possible risks in the investment process, quantitatively evaluates the long-term development capabilities and potential risks of listed companies from the five dimensions of "people, business, capabilities, valuation and risk", and purchases the external database Wind ESG, and incorporates the monitoring of changes in ESG indicators of listed companies into its daily investment management business. The research team of Guohai Securities actively explores green financial services such as carbon peaking and carbon neutrality strategies, conducts in-depth research from the perspective of the whole industry chain, proposes specific action plans for the implementation of the systematization of green finance, publishes in-depth research reports related to green finance, and regularly conducts special meetings to provide research support for the development of green industries.
Practice low-carbon operations and strengthen energy conservation and emission reduction. Guohai Securities creates a green office environment through paperless office, green procurement, reducing energy waste, and advocating energy-saving advocacy, and advocates green travel for employees. Taking 2022 as the baseline, the company's per capita office paper consumption in 2023 decreased by 19% year-on-year, natural gas consumption per unit area decreased by 21% year-on-year, and diesel consumption of diesel generators decreased by 33% year-on-year.
Take the people as the center and create value for the society
Focus on inclusive finance and pension finance to serve the wealth management needs of residents. Guohai Securities always pays attention to customer needs, provides customers with high-quality products and warm services, and investment advisory products such as "Chief Dian Jin" and "Zhirong Dividend" are well received. Implement various measures to reduce fees and profits, set up a "She Wealth" service area, innovate pension financial products, implement age-appropriate services, upgrade the intelligent asset allocation platform, and enhance customers' sense of gain. It attaches great importance to investor education, organizes special investment education activities such as financial national education, financial volunteer service, and "rural revitalization + red party building", and has won the "National Financial System Lei Feng Activity Demonstration Site". Support the development of small and micro enterprises and private enterprises, and help high-quality small, medium and micro enterprises and private enterprises with diversified financing through equity investment and financing, issuance of credit enhancement collective bonds, equity investment, etc. Helped Tianye Co., Ltd., the first share of tropical raw juice, to land on the Beijing Stock Exchange, and helped Yuequn Marine to be successfully approved for listing on the New Third Board at the end of 2023, helping the innovation and development of agricultural science and technology, and supporting the country to accelerate the construction of an agricultural power.
Fulfill social responsibilities and vigorously support rural revitalization. Guohai Securities has been engaged in poverty alleviation for 13 consecutive years, with 7 fixed-point assistance and "one division and one county" pairing assistance points, with a total investment of more than 28 million yuan in industrial and consumer assistance funds, and has carried out public welfare projects such as "Love Dream Fulfillment" for 18 consecutive years, with a cumulative donation of more than 12 million yuan, realizing the dream of more than 1,050 Guangxi students.
Steady and far-reaching, improve the level of corporate governance
Strengthening corporate governance is an important starting point for achieving sustainable development of enterprises. Guohai Securities has always taken the initiative to shoulder the responsibility of self-regulation, self-improvement and self-improvement, and continuously improved the level of corporate governance and standardized operation. We will further promote the organic integration of the party's leadership and the improvement of corporate governance, and form a governance pattern in which the party committee has overall leadership, the board of directors makes strategic decisions, the board of supervisors has independent supervision, and the management is responsible for operation. Improve the ESG governance system, set up a strategy and ESG committee of the board of directors, establish an ESG management structure for which the board of directors is responsible, formulate ESG risk management methods for business lines, promote the integration of ESG concepts into the governance system and business system, and promote management and risk prevention with ESG. We continued to strengthen compliance and risk control management, strengthened the construction of compliance and risk control culture, built a strong compliance and risk control professional team, improved the level of internal control informatization, optimized the "1+N supervision closed-loop" system, and implemented the "shoulder to shoulder" between compliance management personnel and Party branch discipline inspection members, so as to comprehensively improve the company's compliance risk control and internal control capabilities.
In the future, Guohai Securities will continue to improve the level of ESG management under the innovation of ESG management practice, further serve the national strategy and regional development, help common prosperity, and contribute to the sustainable development of society and the environment.
Source of this article: China Financial Information Center Lujiazui Financial Network
WeChat editor: Wang Ziqing
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