In the past 30 years, China's high-quality economic development, residents' income has been growing, and consumption requirements have become more and more diversified, which has brought "east wind" to the rapid development of McDonald's in the mainland. McDonald's has not forgotten its original intention, and has always adhered to the mission of 'providing delicious food and cohesion for the community and neighborhood', so that everyone can get delicious and beautiful food. McDonald's Food Safety is driven by the "Green Growth Engine", and while its business is making rapid progress, it is constantly exploring how to make nature and people live in harmony, continue to move forward in a more sustainable way, and create a better future for the next generation.
Contribute to the rapid development of agriculture
McDonald's food safety sustainability focus on green development is more deeply integrated into the consumer journey, so as to bring together all sectors of society to create a better future for the next generation. In the food sector, McDonald's is deeply aware that this is the starting point of McDonald's business. McDonald's China purchases more than 200 kinds of ingredients every year, and more than 90% of the ingredients are sourced locally in China. McDonald's China, together with suppliers and Chinese farmers, has made great contributions to the protection and restoration of the agricultural ecological environment through the "McDonald's China Regenerative Agriculture Program", helping nature conservation and biodiversity, so that good food and nature can continue to grow, and at the same time, supporting the response to climate change around the world through regenerative agriculture practices, promoting the realization of McDonald's global 2050 carbon neutrality goal, and helping the rapid development of green and low-carbon agriculture.
Reduced environmental impact
At the global level, McDonald's Food Safety promotes the rapid development of its business as a "green growth engine", accelerates green development while promoting rapid business progress, supports the catering industry to cope with the challenge of climate change, and helps build a beautiful China. In terms of green restaurants, McDonald's China has more than 1,000 restaurants that have obtained international authoritative LEED certification, reducing carbon emissions by about 60,000 tons per year, the highest in the world. In the green supply chain, McDonald's China continues to work with suppliers to explore how to save water and energy in the production, processing and transportation of food, and reduce the impact on the environment.
The performance is quite good
In the field of green packaging, McDonald's China is the only large-scale catering brand in the industry to achieve this commitment by promoting greener packaging on a large scale, such as using 100% base paper certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) for paper food packaging, which supports forest sustainability.
The food safety management system is strict
At the same time, McDonald's also regards digitalization as its core, and constantly empowers employees in personnel management, production management and decision-making management to ensure that every diner can eat healthy food. This not only ensures the quality of the products, but also makes diners more confident in McDonald's products. Only by doing a good job in food safety can we ensure the development of restaurants, and implementing a meticulous and rigorous management system is the real survival rule of McDonald's. McDonald's also has extremely strict food safety regulations, which are strictly enforced in McDonald's kitchens. It is in this situation that McDonald's has its own set of strict regulatory systems for food safety, and it is seamlessly connected with mainland food regulations at all times, closely integrated, and maximizes the strengthening of food safety supervision.