Green Operation
Promote Green Office Practices And Advocate for A Green Lifestyle
CITIC Bank promoted the use of energy-efficient and eco-friendly lighting, air conditioning, water-saving equipment, hot water, and heat supply, as well as new products, consumables, green building technologies, processes, and materials in all office premises of the Bank. Also, the Bank implemented meticulous waste sorting management to reduce unit energy and resource consumption, made efforts to create a comfortable, high-quality, friendly, and green office environment for our employees, and encouraged the use of public transportation such as buses and subways for official travel to promote green commuting. The Bank advanced paperless office operations, paperless meetings, and paperless training to reduce disposable office supply consumption, enhanced the recycling of office consumables and other resources and encouraged all staff and executives across the organization to practice frugality, conserve water and electricity, minimize food waste, and manage waste through meticulous sorting. Moreover, the Bank advocated green consumption, eco-friendly travel, and sustainable living, and spread awareness about safety practices. It promoted measures related to green operations and constantly managed environmental footprints in five sectors of energy, carbon emission, water consumption, paper consumption and waste, in an effort to reduce resource consumption and pollutant emissions.
Energy Management
Official Vehicles Usage
It complied with the equipment and procurement standards for official vehicles and chose NEVs over others when buying new cars, so as to control fuel consumption at the source of emissions. It strengthened the management of statistics about fuel consumption by official vehicles by creating a uniform ledger. It strictly acted on the provisions on the use of official vehicles. Employees were advised to go out for business activities by bus or subway whenever possible, and reasonable plans were made according to the number of passengers, routes to destination and weather conditions so as to promote green commuting.
Natural Gas Usage
Natural gas valves were closed in time to reduce natural gas consumption; facilities in restaurants were updated, and new energy-saving stoves were installed. A gas consumption ledger was established, and the statistics ledger was analyzed and summarized on a monthly basis. Natural gas pipelines were checked on a regular basis to prevent natural gas leakage, and pipelines with problems were processed.
Lighting System
All floors of the Bank’s headquarter building use LED energy-saving lights. It preferentially chose energy-saving products when purchasing lamps and electric appliances. Lighting facilities were power out in unoccupied offices and meeting rooms. During lunch breaks, the central control system of the headquarter building automatically shut down the lighting facilities in the office area except for necessary fire safety lighting. After work, the system automatically shut down the lighting facilities on each floor at 19:30. Office equipment such as computers, fax machines, and duplicators was set in power-saving mode at the designated time, and electric power is required to be shut off after work.
Air Conditioning System
The air conditioning in the office area of headquarter building was controlled by a central control system and switched automatically among different modes. The exhaust air flow rate was automatically adjusted in different periods. After 6 p.m. on working days, the air conditioning automatically stops running. The air conditioning was closed on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays.
Water Resource Management
The Bank continuously refined water resource management promoted the use of water-saving appliances, and strengthened the maintenance and repair of water equipment. Break rooms were equipped with drinking fountains and the filters were changed regularly. It required the staff to turn off the tap immediately after use, and strengthened inspection and accountability, so as to avoid water waste on each floor.
Paper Management
The Bank advocated the concept of paperless office practices and promoted the usage Email instead of printing and copying. The double-side printing model was set as default, and paperweight in the headquarters was reduced from 80g to 70g. The Bank required that business cards should be made of recycled paper and electric business cards were also available with the same information as the paper cards, as so to reduce the use of paper cards.
Waste Management
Waste generated during the Bank's operation includes both hazardous waste and non-hazardous waste. For each type of waste, the Bank took scientific and reasonable measures to handle it as appropriate.
Disposal of Hazardous Waste
The waste toner and used toner cartridges from the Bank's printing equipment were subject to the proper disposal, replacement, and recycling of qualified professional companies.
Disposal of Non-hazardous Waste
For domestic and restaurant kitchen waste, the Bank sorted them as recyclables and non-recyclables, and used garbage bins with different colors for “kitchen waste”, “other garbage” and “waste oils and fats”, all of which were managed by designated personnel and not left sitting out overnight.
*The English version were translated based on the Simplified Chinese version. In case of any discrepancies among the versions, the Simplified Chinese version shall prevail.