Recently, Yonyou Network released its 2023 ESG report, which fully discloses the company's performance in three aspects: environmental, social and governance. Wang Wenjing, chairman of the company, clearly pointed out that technology empowerment is the "backbone" to promote the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development. Yonyou actively responds to the national "dual carbon" strategy, organically integrates ESG concepts with product and service innovation and upgrading, and takes the "industrialization" strategic transformation as an opportunity to provide green solutions for multiple industries through clean technology innovation and application, effectively empowering the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development. At the same time, Yonyou actively builds an environment-friendly operation system and helps achieve the "double carbon" goal with its own actions.
In the practice case of UFIDA, there are several highlights worthy of attention. First of all, Yonyou has launched an integrated intelligent production and operation platform to provide integrated production and operation control for industrial enterprises, help enterprises realize the link of all production factors and the integration of the whole value chain, and lead the high-quality development of industrial enterprises. Secondly, yonyou focuses on the key role of intelligent manufacturing in the process of new industrialization, and based on years of digital practice in the manufacturing industry, it has formed an intelligent manufacturing solution based on the industrial Internet to help enterprises accelerate the formation of key core capabilities required for intelligent manufacturing. In addition, Yonyou also focuses on the field of "dual carbon", fully integrates ESG concepts with product innovation, explores sustainable solutions to support the green transformation of various industries, and actively deepens the construction of environment-friendly operation systems and mechanisms.
Yonyou's ESG performance has also been recognized by international rating agencies, and in September 2022, it received an overall "A" rating for the first time in the MSCI rating, and became the only A-share software service provider to receive an MSCI A rating, indicating that Yonyou is in a leading position in the ESG rating of the same industry in China. In May 2023, the MSCI ESG rating results were announced, and Yonyou successfully maintained an A-level evaluation, once again ranking first among A-share software service companies.
In 2023, Yonyou will continue to promote social responsibility work to be organized, professional and systematic, and complete the recertification of authoritative certifications such as ISO14001 (environmental management system), ISO45001 (occupational health and safety management system), and SA8000 (social responsibility labeling), consolidating the company's social responsibility management system.
At the same time, in terms of promoting green development, Yonyou focuses on the strategic planning in the field of "dual carbon", fully integrates the concept of environmental, social and governance with the innovation of products and services, and continues to explore sustainable solutions to support the green transformation of thousands of industries with its rich digital and intelligent service capabilities as the starting point.
Promote the green transformation of thousands of industries
At the level of strategic planning, Yonyou Network closely combines the clear requirements of the national strategy for green development with the company's own long-term development goals, and establishes the core position of digital intelligence in promoting the green transformation of the whole industry. The company has established a hierarchical working mechanism with the Strategy and Sustainability Committee of the Board of Directors as the core, the Sustainability (ESG) Committee under the President's Office Meeting responsible for planning and implementation, and the Sustainability (ESG) Coordination Group on the business line responsible for specific implementation.
At the specific implementation level, Yonyou has set up a special product and service innovation team and a green operation team, which have formulated detailed implementation plans based on the guidance and plans of senior management and ensured the effective implementation of these plans. These efforts are aimed at promoting the green transformation of business and management for customers and ecosystem partners, and ensuring that the company's own green operation measures are effectively implemented.
Iterative upgrade implementation
In 2023, yonyou in-depth exploration of the key role of enterprise digital and intelligent transformation and business innovation in promoting green transformation, and accurately identified the pain points and challenges faced by green transformation. Through industry-based green development solutions, Yonyou has effectively promoted the rapid progress of green and low-carbon businesses in various industries.
In the energy industry, Yonyou closely follows the trend of global energy transition to low-carbon and clean development, with the concept of "green network, driven by digital intelligence", takes the digital and intelligent transformation of energy enterprises as the key starting point, builds the BIP energy industry solution of Yonyou, and uses digital intelligence technology to promote the green and low-carbon transformation of energy enterprises.
In the civil aviation industry, Yonyou focuses on the use of aviation fuel, a key link in carbon emission management in the civil aviation field, and uses Yonyou BIP to create an intelligent data analysis platform of "Intelligent Fuel Saving & Carbon Reduction and Emission Reduction for Airlines", providing comprehensive data-driven solutions to help airlines accurately collect carbon emission data, automatically generate monitoring reports, and comprehensively monitor fuel-saving targets, so as to effectively promote green flight.
In the iron and steel metallurgical industry, Yonyou has redefined the technical route of scrap steel grading, and used artificial intelligence large models to significantly improve the efficiency and quality of scrap steel through dismantling and process management software systems, grading rule models, deep learning models, image collection and hardware networks. Yonyou's "Intelligent Scrap Grading Solution Based on Industrial Internet Platform" has provided services for more than 40 iron and steel enterprises and scrap recycling enterprises, with a cumulative cost reduction of 10 million yuan and efficiency increase, helping to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 9.04 million tons.
In the chemical and paper industry, Yonyou focuses on the transformation and upgrading of key enterprises and the improvement of green manufacturing system, with "wisdom +" as the core, focusing on the construction of smart management, smart operation, smart factory and industrial Internet, to help enterprises achieve the fundamental transformation of energy saving, consumption reduction, quality and efficiency improvement, emission reduction and environmental protection.
In the environmental protection industry, Yonyou has established cooperative relations with 168 environmental protection enterprises, and the investment in technology development has reached 116 million yuan. It is estimated that by the end of 2024, the proportion of revenue from cooperation with environmental protection companies will increase by 18% compared with 2023.
In addition, as the world's leading cloud service provider, Yonyou continues to deepen the application of cloud service technology in energy conservation and consumption reduction, and works with partners to achieve the "dual carbon" goal.
By the end of 2023, 468,000 suppliers have registered on Yonyou's YonBIP procurement cloud platform, and 139 large and medium-sized enterprises have achieved 25,000 online bidding, involving 23,000 suppliers, with a winning bid amount of 50.61 billion yuan. 708 large and medium-sized enterprises conducted 983,000 online inquiries, involving 118,000 suppliers, and the amount of bids won reached 827.59 billion yuan, saving a total of 50 million yuan in travel costs and significantly reducing carbon emissions. At the same time, YonBIP Collaborative Cloud has served more than 2.15 million enterprises and organizations, becoming an important tool for paperless green office. Yonyou has provided tax-related and ticket-related services for more than 82,000 enterprises, with 309 million electronic invoices issued, 214 million invoices collected, 9 million electronic accounting vouchers issued, and 532 tons of carbon emission reduction.
Build a green and low-carbon operation system
Yonyou has always adhered to the core concept of green, environmental protection and intelligence, and constantly explored and practiced a green and low-carbon management mechanism that is in line with the actual situation of the company. The company is committed to improving the execution and supervision of environmental protection goals, ensuring the effective implementation of green operation strategies, and helping the company steadily achieve the "double carbon" goal. In 2023, Yonyou invested more than 9 million yuan in environmental protection projects, including garbage classification, energy-saving equipment upgrades, and environmental protection culture construction, and achieved remarkable results.
In 2022, Yonyou released the "Implementation Plan for Carbon Peaking in Yonyou Industrial Park", setting ambitious goals to achieve carbon peak by 2023 (covering Scope 1 and Scope 2) and carbon neutrality by 2060. In the field of green energy, Yonyou will start using green electricity in 2023, with a total of 2,500 MW, accounting for 6% of the total electricity. The company aims to increase the proportion of green electricity to 50% of total electricity consumption by 2025 and achieve 100% green electricity coverage by 2030.
In terms of water management, the use of reclaimed water in the western and central districts of Yonyou Park reached 59,781 cubic meters in 2023, and it is planned to expand the use of reclaimed water to the eastern area of the park in 2024.
In terms of green commuting, Yonyou will replace all shuttle buses with electric vehicles in 2023, and adjust the shuttle bus routes in real time according to the occupancy rate of passengers to reduce resource waste.
Yonyou has also taken a number of measures in the construction and operation of the green industrial park, including protecting the original ecological environment, using energy-saving and water-saving environmental protection technologies and materials such as ground source heat pumps, energy storage, rainwater recycling, energy-saving blocks, and solar landscape lights, so as to promote the construction of a circular economy in the park, greatly reduce waste emissions, and improve the green and low-carbon operation level of the park. For example, in Beijing Yonyou Industrial Park, the energy supply system transformation and lighting energy consumption management optimization were implemented; Promote intelligent cooling and heating systems and photovoltaic power generation in Nanchang Industrial Park; Solar water heating system and building façade shading facilities were installed in Sanya Industrial Park to reduce building energy consumption.
In the office field, Yonyou has achieved intelligent energy conservation and carbon reduction through measures such as intelligent production orders, digital employees, intelligent audits and paperless office. In 2023, a total of 227,000 reimbursement documents will be automatically and intelligently generated, accounting for 55.6% of the reimbursement forms, saving 49,000 hours of filling time, and 668,000 printing papers, equivalent to a reduction of 1.35 tons of carbon emissions. Digital employees independently reviewed 133,000 documents, accounting for 32.5% of the total number of documents; The intelligent audit performed 10.56 million checkpoint tasks, saving 41,000 hours of work time for auditors.
In short, through in-depth cooperation with the industry, Yonyou Network actively promotes green and low-carbon development and supports the environmental protection industry. At the same time, the company has also built a green and low-carbon operation system internally, striving to achieve the goals of carbon peak and carbon neutrality, and making positive contributions to environmental protection.