Hopewell Holdings Limited
Sustainability Report 2010/11 3
romoting sustainability is just as important as
achieving long-term business growth. Over the
past 40 years since our establishment in the
late 1960s, we have made continuous efforts
to maintain a high degree of sustainability in
our operations in both Hong Kong and Mainland
China. Changes to the Board and management structure have
enabled us to better integrate social and environmental values
into our core business. We value the opportunities to learn more
about the needs and expectations of our communities and other
stakeholders. To this end, we established an independently reviewed
stakeholder engagement process in 2011. In the same year we also
established our Sustainability Steering Committee to strengthen
our management efforts in promoting sustainability through our
corporate governance, environmental protection, community
investment and workplace practices.
Our management approach is to look beyond regulations and
improve our practices across our different business divisions,
whilst balancing the needs of different stakeholders. With property
and infrastructure development being the main part of our core
business operations, we have placed significant emphasis on the
energy efficiency of the premises and highways that we develop
and manage. We believe sustainability should start at the design
stage. We consider environmental concerns at the early stage of
planning, all the way through to the construction and eventual
management and maintenance of our buildings and highways.
The strong engineering background and technological excellence
of our team has been central to our achievements. In particular, we
believe we have an important role to play in promoting road safety.
In view of our investment in a coal-fired power plant in Mainland
China, we recognise the responsibility we have to minimise the
environmental impacts of burning coal and producing greenhouse
gas emissions. We have therefore pioneered the implementation of
one of the most environmentally efficient coal-fired power plants
in Guangdong Province. We are also actively testing and developing
our own technology for large-scale wind turbines to respond to
the growing demand for clean renewable electricity. We do not
view our economic progress to be in competition to our social or
environmental progress.
This Report lays out our sustainability efforts in our 2010/11 financial
year and highlights areas where we want to improve. Responding
to employees’ needs and offering career and personal development
opportunities that go beyond common workplace practice is an
important part of our strategy. Increasing staff awareness about
health and safety issues, environmental performance and community
investment is part of our responsibility. This will enable us to
collectively achieve our business goals. Our sustainability efforts also
extend to business partners and suppliers to ensure high quality and
responsible services and products for customers.
We will continue to look for ways to improve our performance.
In the coming years, we look forward to enhancing engagement with
all our stakeholders and we will continue our legacy to operate in
a sustainable way, excelling for the long term.
Thomas Jefferson WU
Managing Director, Hopewell Holdings Limited
It is in our DNA to be pragmatic.
We constantly consider what is
possible and strive to achieve
economic, social and
environmental progress
simultaneously.
P
Managing
Director’s Message