HONG KONG, July 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- On 8 July 2025, the world's leading index company, FTSE Russell, recently announced the latest Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) rating results for Fosun International Limited (HKEX stock code: 00656) ("Fosun International"). In 2025, Fosun International's FTSE Russell ESG rating was upgraded to 3.9, consistently outperforming the global industry average (2.6) and the national average (2.0), while maintaining its inclusion in the FTSE4Good Index Series for the fourth consecutive years.
The FTSE Russell ESG rating focuses on corporate governance, environmental, and social issues. According to the latest rating results, Fosun International outperformed the industry average and the national average across environmental, social, and governance issues. Notably, Fosun International achieved a perfect score of 5.0 in Environmental Supply Chain and Anti-Corruption, and for the first time, attained a full score of 5.0 in Risk Management. In addition, Fosun International received scores of 4.0 or higher in the fields of Human Rights & Community, Labour Standards, Social Supply Chain, and Corporate Governance. Fosun International's improved ESG rating and continued inclusion in the FTSE4Good Index Series highlight the capital market's strong recognition of its ESG management capabilities.
In recent years, Fosun International's ESG ratings have continued to excel, underscoring its outstanding sustainability performance. As of now, Fosun International maintained an MSCI ESG rating of AA, achieved an HSI ESG rating of AA-, ranked in the top 5% among global peers in latest S&P Global's Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA), was included in S&P Global's Sustainability Yearbook 2025, and was selected as the top 1% in S&P Global's Sustainability Yearbook 2025 (China Edition).
Since its establishment, Fosun has remained committed to its original aspirations of "Self-improvement, Teamwork, Performance, and Contribution to Society". Looking ahead, while focusing on business operations, Fosun will continue to strengthen sustainable development management, actively fulfill its corporate social responsibilities, and deepen the implementation of ESG initiatives. Leveraging the resources and advantages of its global industrial ecosystem, Fosun strives to continuously contribute to build a better world.
About FTSE4Good Index Series:
Launched in 2001, the FTSE4Good Index Series is the first index series to measure the performance of companies that meet globally recognized corporate responsibility standards. It aims to identify and recognize companies demonstrating strong Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) practices. Transparent management and clearly-defined ESG criteria make FTSE4Good indexes suitable tools to be used by investment advisers, asset owners, fund managers, investment banks, stock exchanges and brokers when creating or assessing sustainable investment products. For the inclusion in the FTSE4Good Index Series, companies are required to implement corporate responsibility measures in a number of areas, including working towards mitigating and adapting to climate change, conserving resources, countering bribery and corruption, up-holding and supporting universal human rights, labor rights and ensuring good supply chain labor standards, while complying with strict global guidelines.