SHENZHEN, China, June 8, 2025/ PRNewswire/– ZTE Corporation (0763. HK/ 000063. SZ), a worldwide leading company of incorporated info and interaction innovation options, has actually just recently launched its Sustainability Report 2024, marking the 17th successive year the business has actually proactively revealed its sustainable dedications and development to the general public.
The ZTE Corporation Sustainability Report 2024 highlights ZTE’s strong ESG techniques and accomplishments, showcasing how the business is leveraging digital development to drive sustainable change around the world.
Amidst the speeding up wave of international digitalization, ZTE stays dedicated to its function as a “Chauffeur of the Digital Economy”, advancing its sustainability program on 2 fronts: by making considerable strides in green operations directed by science-based carbon targets, and by allowing digital and low-carbon change throughout markets through advanced innovations.
Xu Ziyang, Executive Director and CEO of ZTE, mentions in the report, “The new age of AI-driven technological transformation, especially the boom of big designs and generative AI, has actually moved the international digital and smart change. In this vital year filled with both difficulties and chances, ZTE, as a ‘Chauffeur of Digital Economy’, remained real to its initial goal and reacted to the call of the times.”
The report exposes that ZTE continues to reinforce the underlying abilities and scaling up R&D financial investment to construct more powerful core proficiency, with the R&D expenditures accounting for 19.81% of operating income. Since December 31, 2024, ZTE had actually submitted 93,000 international patent applications, with over 48,000 patents approved. Particularly, in the field of chips, ZTE had actually submitted about 5,500 patent applications, with over 2,000 approved. In the field of AI, the business had actually submitted more than 5,000 patent applications, with almost half of them currently approved, showing strong development and technological abilities.
Advancing Green Methods to Deal With Environment Difficulties
ZTE focuses its core drive on technological development, continually deepening its green advancement method to attend to environment modification difficulties and promote the collaborated development of digital intelligence and sustainability throughout markets. In 2024, ZTE got main approval from the Science-Based Targets effort (SBTi) for its near-term 1.5 ° C target and long-lasting net-zero targets. In the exact same year, ZTE released the ZTE Net-Zero Technique White Paper.
The business continues to advance its “Green Digital Course” effort throughout 4 measurements: green business operations, green supply chain, green digital facilities, and green empowerment. ZTE has actually been called to the distinguished CDP A list for leading environment action for 2 successive years, enhancing its international environment management.
In regards to green business operations, ZTE has actually accomplished the impressive accomplishment of increasing income while lowering energy usage, thanks to years of constant effort. In 2024, the business enhanced its energy effectiveness by 20% compared to 2021, and tape-recorded a 13.4% decrease in Scope 1&& 2 emissions compared to the previous year. Its telecom items saw an 8.39% decrease in physical emissions strength throughout the usage and upkeep stage, while its terminal items accomplished a 5.02% year-on-year decrease in outright emissions over the whole item lifecycle. ZTE lowered its Scope 1&& 2 & 3 carbon emissions by 14.317 million heaps in 2024 compared to 2023 levels.
For green supply chain, in 2024, ZTE has actually incorporated dual-carbon method requirements into provider management IT systems, consisting of arrangement finalizing, on-site audits, and efficiency evaluations. In this year, ZTE performed onsite CSR audits for 261 production providers (representing 86.9% of the leading 90% providers by procurement quantity).
Concerning green digital facilities, ZTE boasts over 800 green development patents. Since 2024, the business has actually performed carbon footprint evaluations for 154 items, covering all its item classifications. Through its end-to-end green options, ZTE continues to assist international operators conserve over 10 billion kWh of electrical power every year.
In green empowerment of markets, ZTE has actually actively incorporated cloud and network facilities, IoT, huge information, AI and other advanced innovations with conventional markets to accomplish a win-win result of advancement and emission decrease. The business has actually partnered with over 2,000 leading market gamers to perform 5G-powered ingenious green practices throughout 18 sectors– consisting of steel, metallurgy, electronic devices making, ports, rail transit, mining, and power– pioneering more than 100 ingenious application situations.
Supporting a People-Centered Method to Foster an Inclusive Society
ZTE has actually pursued sustainable advancement by advancing both technological management and CSR satisfaction. By leveraging its technological benefits, it offers customized digital options to international clients, assisting to bridge the digital divide and speed up digital change worldwide. For instance, ZTE and Orange have actually collectively released the “Boost Backwoods” job, providing interactions facilities to rural areas in Liberia and allowing digital gain access to for more than 580,000 individuals in remote locations. In Anyang, Henan, the business supported the advancement of a drone-based blood shipment system, successfully resolving the “last mile” difficulty in city medical logistics. In Hainan, ZTE guaranteed continuous emergency situation interactions with satellite terminals throughout Hurricane Yagi.
ZTE supports a people-oriented approach. In 2024, ZTE accomplished 100% worker training protection and its ISO 45001 Occupational Health And Wellness Management Systems accreditation now covers workplaces in 30 nations.
In 2024, ZTE performed 310 routine public well-being activities throughout different fields, consisting of rural revitalization, education assistance, and medical and catastrophe relief. With the collaborations of 15,000 worker volunteers, the business has actually offered support to over one million individuals in requirement, continually providing heat and producing social worth.
Reinforcing Governance to Boost Business Strength
Xie Junshi, EVP and COO of ZTE, mentions in the report, “Devoted to innovation-driven and sustainable advancement, ZTE has actually embedded ESG into every element of its operations. By utilizing digital and smart innovations, we are establishing an advancement design that exists together harmoniously with nature and society, while checking out a course for organization connection in the brand-new age.”
Incorporating sustainable advancement with its business techniques, ZTE desires reinforce its core competitiveness with a concentrate on its vision and 3 tactical foundations– internal control, compliance, and skill. In 2024, ZTE updated the business governance system and developed the Technique and Sustainability Committee to much better integrate the approach of sustainable advancement into its techniques and organization activities.
In regards to business danger avoidance and control, ZTE locations specific focus on recognizing and reacting to emerging threats. As AI innovation quickly changes the world, it brings tremendous organization chances while likewise raising extensive issues over ethical threats such as personal privacy violation and algorithmic predisposition. To proactively attend to these difficulties, ZTE developed the Science and Innovation Ethics Committee in 2024, showing top-level organizational dedication to ethical governance. In addition, the business has actually put in location an innovation principles governance structure to evaluate and evaluate AI-related R&D tasks separately, guaranteeing the safe, reputable, and inclusive advancement of AI.
As a member of the UN Global Compact and the Worldwide Making It Possible For Sustainability Effort and a crucial individual and a leader in the Partner2Connect (P2C) Digital Union started by the International Telecommunication Union, ZTE has actually gotten extensive acknowledgment from many international reliable companies and ranking companies for its excellent sustainability practices.
In 2024, ZTE was acknowledged with EcoVadis Gold Medal for sustainability quality. In addition, the business was picked for the S&P Global’s Sustainability Yearbook 2024 (China Edition) and bestowed the title of “Market Mover”. It was likewise noted amongst the 2024 Forbes China ESG 50 list and got the World Web Conference Distinguished Contribution Award. Moreover, ZTE won 2 BDO ESG awards, along with the LinkedIn MostIn Awards– Worldwide Skill Magnet Company, to name a few.
Moving on, ZTE will continue to promote sustainable advancement worldwide, leveraging technological development and worldwide partnership to inject digital vigor into efforts towards the United Nations Sustainable Advancement Goals, pursuing a greener, more inclusive, and durable future.
For more information of ZTE Sustainability Report 2024, please download:
https://www.zte.com.cn/content/dam/zte-site/investorrelations/en_announcement/ZTE_Sustainability_Report_2024_EN.pdf
To find more updates about our dedication to the sustainability, please check out ZTE Sustainability site:
https://www.zte.com.cn/global/about/sustainability.html
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