2023-01-05
On December 28, CBN, a well-known domestic mainstream financial media, held the “China Corporate Social Responsibility List for 2022” award ceremony and released the annual list of outstanding enterprises. With its outshining performance in corporate social responsibility, AsiaInfo stood out from many participating companies and won the “ESG-Business Governance Contribution Award”.
Award information and the trophy
CBN is an influential financial all-media group in China, and its annual selection of the “China Corporate Social Responsibility List” has been held for 14 years, committed to promoting the development and dissemination of corporate social responsibility in China. In 2022, CBN took “sustainable innovation” as the annual theme, focusing on the aspects of “sustainability” and “innovation” for authoritative selection, and the result is strongly fair and market influential. AsiaInfo was awarded this honor, which demonstrates the full recognition of AsiaInfo in corporate social responsibility, especially in terms of business governance contributions from all walks of life. AsiaInfo’s outstanding contributions in continuously practicing the concept of low-carbon development, exerting industry leadership, and leading the industry and ecological partners to jointly practice corporate social responsibility have been highly praised by society.
As a leading provider of software products, solutions, and services, and a leading “digital intelligence full-stack capability provider”, AsiaInfo has formed “end-to-end” full-link digital intelligence support capabilities covering consulting planning, product development, implementation and delivery, system integration, intelligent decision-making, data operation, and customer service. In recent years, adhering to the strategy of “One Consolidation and Three Development”, AsiaInfo has accurately grasped the opportunity of economic and social transformation, relied on the three product systems and related services of “digital intelligence”, “cloud network” and “IT”, continued to empower communications, government affairs, finance, energy, transportation, postal and other industries, given full play to the value of digitalization, driven smart operation and eco-friendly and low-carbon development of various industries, and actively contributed to the construction of a better and sustainable society.
In terms of technology empowering low-carbon operations, AsiaInfo has created smart products such as AI energy-saving systems and provided eco-friendly and smart services for customers in multiple industries, which significantly improved energy-saving efficiency, especially in the energy industry. The company provided digital solutions for green energy enterprises such as wind power and nuclear power enterprises and is committed to building an efficient, safe, and sustainable clean energy development system. At the same time, AsiaInfo insists on improving its own energy conservation and emission reduction capability and has carried out a series of carbon emission reduction actions, including developing its own smart office buildings, dynamic monitoring and perception, reducing the use of gas, electricity, water, paper and other resources in various office scenarios, ensuring the efficient use of resources. AsiaInfo has continuously explored environmental protection operation methods to reduce resource consumption by means of technical equipment transformation and environmental protection publicity. In the past year, AsiaInfo’s total greenhouse gas emissions decreased by 6.11% year-on-year, and its greenhouse gas emission intensity decreased by 18.89% year-on-year.
In terms of business governance, AsiaInfo has established a sound corporate governance structure and system and is committed to maintaining high standards of corporate governance and protecting shareholders' rights and interests. AsiaInfo has always regarded integrity, self-discipline, and fair operation as the foundation of its business, and has formulated detailed rules and procedures in preventing commercial bribery, protecting information security, managing supply chain, etc., and promoted an incorruptible and honest corporate culture through multi-dimensional compliance publicity and supervision and internal control. The company also maintains regular and multi-channel communication with various stakeholders to ensure timely understanding of their expectations and quick respondence to their needs. In addition, AsiaInfo actively assumes social responsibility, continuously improves ESG governance, establishes a top-down ESG management system, strengthens the board's participation in ESG governance, and integrates ESG management into corporate development strategies.
Previously, AsiaInfo Technology also won the title of the most socially responsible enterprise of “Fighting COVID-19” in China's data intelligence industry in 2022.
In the future, AsiaInfo will continue to firmly fulfill its corporate social responsibility, actively implement the national strategic requirements, strive to achieve the goal of “achieving comprehensive carbon neutrality by 2028”, and rely on key digital intelligence technologies such as 5G, artificial intelligence, edge AI, databases, and products to work with customers in hundreds of industries to promote digital intelligence transformation and better fulfill corporate social responsibility.