Recently, Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI), a globally authoritative index provider, released its latest Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) ratings. SY Holdings Group Limited ("SY Holdings", stock code: 6069.HK) has achieved a significant leap in its MSCI ESG rating from A to AA, maintaining its leading position in the industry thanks to its outstanding ESG practices.
The MSCI indexes are the core benchmarks most widely adopted by global portfolio managers. Its ESG ratings have become a crucial reference for international investment institutions when constructing portfolios and making investment decisions, directly reflecting a company's sustainable development capabilities and long-term investment value. This assessment utilized MSCI’s newly released Version 5.0 rating model, marking a key shift in evaluation logic from "focusing on commitment disclosure" to "emphasizing substantive performance." SY Holdings’ successful upgrade to AA fully demonstrates the high recognition from the international capital market regarding the company's performance in environmental protection, social responsibility, and corporate governance.
In the dimension of environmental protection, adhering to the concept of "Technology for Good," SY Holdings deeply integrates the concept of green and low-carbon development into the entire process of corporate operations. Relying on digital technology means such as AI, it continuously optimizes resource allocation, helping the upstream and downstream of the supply chain achieve energy conservation and emission reduction, actively responding to the national "30·60" dual-carbon goals and green development strategy. By the end of December 2025, through its "SY Cloud Platform," the company used AI innovative applications to enhance operational efficiency and optimize customer service experience, comprehensively implementing a full-process "online and paperless" service model. This not only saved an average of over 90% in business processing time but also cumulatively reduced paper consumption by over 73 million sheets, equivalent to reducing carbon emissions by 566 tons, practicing its green development commitment with concrete actions and demonstrating the low-carbon responsibility and accountability of a technology enterprise.
In assisting industrial low-carbon transformation, SY Holdings prioritized support for green and low-carbon project construction in infrastructure (such as public transportation), public buildings (such as urban parks), and new infrastructure (such as new energy facilities). In 2025, SY Holdings cumulatively assisted 214 green and low-carbon infrastructure projects in obtaining over RMB 3.5 billion in funding turnover matching services. Meanwhile, SY Factoring, a subsidiary of SY Holdings, not only participated in the formulation of the domestic industry's first group standard for the Specifications for Green Commercial Factoring Business, but also launched the industry's first innovative agricultural factoring business certified as a green asset, contributing to the national effort of excelling in the "major article" of green finance.
Furthermore, SY Holdings' East China headquarters located in Wuxi—the "AI Future City"—has been successfully completed. The project construction strictly followed the dual certification standards of "Three-Star Green Building" and "LEED Platinum," striving to create a green, high-end, and modern architectural exemplar. As the nation's first AI industrial digital ecosystem base and a major foreign-invested project heavily introduced by Wuxi City, the AI Future City can provide comprehensive support such as advanced computing power, government services, fintech, and business empowerment to settled enterprises, promoting the innovative application of AI technology in the industrial supply chain field.
In the dimension of social responsibility, SY Holdings actively responds to the national call to support the development of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), continuously increasing R&D investment and the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, constantly optimizing its data-driven " transaction-focused, entity-light" risk control model, and empowering the growth of SMEs through platform technology services. By the end of March 2026, the number of clients cumulatively served by the SY Holdings platform exceeded 32,000, with the cumulative scale of intelligently matched business on the platform surpassing RMB 350 billion, among which SME clients accounted for over 96%. During this period, the company cumulatively reduced financing costs for clients by over RMB 3.3 billion and helped clients increase their sales scale by over 60%. Simultaneously, the company's platform has connected with over 200 funding partners, becoming a preferred partner for traditional financial institutions to excel in the "five major articles" and serve the real economy, effectively playing the bridging role of a supply chain fintech platform.
Additionally, SY Holdings consistently adheres to the deep integration of social responsibility and corporate development, practicing philanthropic responsibility and deepening charitable endeavors. The SY Holdings Charity Foundation, initiated and established by SY Holdings, focuses on three major areas: "Care for Children in Distress," "Youth Incentive Program," and "Assisting Rural Revitalization," conducting various public welfare activities in depth, and has been rated as a 3A-level social organization. Up to now, cumulative public welfare investment has exceeded RMB 15 million, benefiting over 25,000 people, successfully rescuing over 240 children with congenital heart disease, and smoothly helping 150 students realize their educational dreams, conveying love and warmth through incremental actions and gathering public welfare strength with sincere good deeds.
In the dimension of corporate governance, SY Holdings has constructed a three-tiered ESG governance structure consisting of Board decision-making, Sustainability Committee management, and ESG working group execution, clarifying the boundaries of rights and responsibilities at each level, forming a closed-loop ESG management system characterized by scientific decision-making, efficient management, and effective execution, ensuring the normalized advancement of ESG management work. The company actively responds to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), focusing on six core topics: "Technology Empowering SME Growth," "Building a Low-Carbon Ecosystem," "Emphasizing Ecological Business Ethics," "Responsibly Repaying Trust from All Parties," "Jointly Developing with Employees," and "Delivering SY Holdings' Social Value," promoting the deep integration of ESG concepts with corporate strategy and business operations, ensuring the implementation and effectiveness of various ESG work objectives, and continuously enhancing the standardization level of corporate governance.
In the future, SY Holdings will continuously improve its ESG management level and practical effectiveness, integrating ESG concepts into every link of corporate development, always practicing the corporate mission and vision of "Empowering Chinese SMEs to reshape the global supply chain," driving collaborative sustainable development across the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, forging long-term investment value that withstands cycles, and creating sustainably shared value for all stakeholders.
