熵基科技(301330):2023年度环境、社会及治理（ESG）报告（英文版）
原标题:熵基科技:2023年度环境、社会及治理（ESG）报告（英文版） environmental protection pattern General Manager Statement 03 Governance System Standardization 21 31 Risk Control Improvement 23 Green Production Promotion 34 Democratic Communication Promotion 48 76 Importance Issue Recognition Product Quality Control Employee Growth Promotion 52 77 Customer Rights and Interests Protection Employee Health Protection55 81 Information Security Protection Employee Care Strengthening 63 85 2024 Outlook 93 95 Index 96 Feedback
enterprise development and employee well-being; at the same time, in order to enhance the happiness of employees While focusing on the three main businesses, ZKTECO actively explores innovative applications of AI and digital among the new industry groups born in the 1990s and 2000s, the Company has provided apartment style dormitories for technology for high-quality upgrading of the industry, and continues to invest in smart retail business, proposing the employees in Guangdong ZKTECO Park. The dormitories are adjacent to the National Forest Park and have family environmentally friendly concept of "ZKTECO's good screens for beautiful new life". In product innovation, we suites. In addition, we have daycare centers in ZKTECO Tangxia Park and Guangdong ZKTECO Park, eliminating advocate for "good products being green", applying green energy technology to various products, and achieving the goal worries for employees with young children; the Company has a good execution culture in providing assistance to of emission reduction and low-carbon through daily efforts. Realizing green production and low-carbon operation has disadvantaged employees and their families, employee holiday benefits, and daily cultural promotion, so that every always been our direction. We will introduce advanced environmental protection technologies and equipment in new employee can truly feel the warmth of the Company. production bases, continuously optimize production processes, reduce pollutant emissions, and improve resource utilization efficiency. The new bases implement a water recycling system, with an environmental purification system Looking ahead to 2024, ZKTECO will continuously improve corporate governance, uphold dreams, and maintain established throughout the entire production process. In addition to actively upgrading environmental protection courage; adhere to honesty and achieve success. The Company will deepen high-quality development, become a core biometric technologies such as fingerprints, palm veins, palmprints, facial features, finger veins, and iris with Company Profile computer vision, radio frequency, IoT, cloud computing and other technologies. It provides smart terminals, industry application software, and platforms with object detection, identity recognition and verification functions to multiple ZKTECO CO., LTD. was established in 2007 and was listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in 2022 with the stock code "301330". The Company is headquartered in Dongguan City, Guangdong Province. As of December fields such as commerce, transportation, finance, education, healthcare, and government affairs.31, 2023, it has 4,106 employees worldwide, including more than 1,200 R&D personnel and more than 1,100 foreign employees. The Company has 42 branches/subsidiaries in Chinese Mainland and 47 controlling subsidiaries overseas, covering more than 100 countries and regions worldwide.Relying on the global ecosystem of R&D, manufacturing, and sales services, the Company actively deploys the field of smart retail cloud services while deeply cultivating the three major business sectors of smart entrance and exit, smart 2022 Development History On August 17, ZKTeco was listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. 2019 The Company upgraded 2013-2014 multimodal BioCV algorithm; 2017 Multimodal palm recognition algorithm was honored as one of the top ten 2023 1998-2002 The intelligent license plate launched. access control brands in China's ZKTeco has started the digital The founding team has successively recognition system, intelligent public safety product industry. transformation of enterprises, with launched independently developed visual perception system, and
The Company values the rights and interests of stakeholders such as investors, customers, employees and partners. In ZKTeco analyzes its own sustainable development challenges based on national policies, industry trends and company the process of business development, the Company actively establishes various effective communication channels with strategies, while paying attention to ESG rating indicators in the capital market. It establishes a mechanism for stakeholders, understands and timely responds to their expectations and demands.identifying important issues and determines annual important issues through analysis of internal and external stakeholders.
Governance System Standardization Governance Structure Operation of the Three Boards The Company has always adhered to compliant operations and strictly followed the requirements of laws and Board of Shareholders regulations such as the "Company Law of the People's Republic of China", the "Measures for the Administration of Independent Directors of Listed Companies", the "Code of Corporate Governance for Listed Companies", and the The Board of Shareholders is the highest authority of the Company. The Company convenes and holds the General "Rules Governing the Listing of Shares on the ChiNext Market of Shenzhen Stock Exchange", forming a modern Meeting in strict accordance with the provisions and requirements of the "Articles of Association" and the "Rules of corporate governance structure where the Board of Shareholders, Board of Directors, Board of Supervisors, and Procedure for Shareholders' Meeting". All shareholders of the Company, especially small and medium-sized management are separated, supported and balanced. At the same time, the Board of Directors has established a Salary shareholders, are entitled to equal rights and fully exercise their voting rights. During the reporting period, the Company and Assessment Committee, a Strategy and Development Committee, an Audit Committee, and a Nomination held one annual general meeting and four extraordinary general meetings, and a total of 17 proposals were deliberated Committee, which have played a good role in further standardizing the operation of the Company. The Company has and approved. developed an effective business model that is adapted to the actual situation, with standardized and orderly management of all aspects, clear division of labor in the organization, and sound and clear functions.Board of Directors Company formulates election procedures for supervisors in accordance with relevant regulations and the Articles of Association. According to the relevant requirements of the "Rules of Procedure for the Board of Supervisors", the supervisors shall conscientiously fulfill their duties and supervise the production and operation, financial operations, as well as the directors and other senior management of the Company. During the reporting period, there were 3 members of the Board of Supervisors, including 1 employee supervisor. The Company held 9 supervisory board meeting and reviewed 23 proposals. Risk identification Risk Control Improvement The Company has established a systematic and effective risk assessment and identification system based on strategic objectives and development ideas, combined with industry characteristics. According to control objectives, relevant functional departments of the Company extensively and continuously collect various external information, including collecting historical data, paying attention to changes that have occurred or will occur to macroeconomic environment Internal Control and policies, competitors, new technologies and products, internal operations, etc. The collected information is promptly identified for risks, achieving control over risks. Internal control system In 2023, the Company completed the preparation of the "2022 Annual Internal Control Self Evaluation Report" and Risk assessment disclosed it one time according to the "Basic Norms for the Internal Control of Enterprises" and its supporting guidelines, as well as other internal control regulatory requirements We evaluate the severity and frequency of identified risks, and confirm them based on the evaluation criteria of the Risk . Within the benchmark date of the internal control evaluation report, there were no significant deficiencies in the and Opportunity Control Procedure. The confirmation of risk severity and frequency is used to determine the risk Company's internal control, and effective internal control was maintained in all major aspects. The Company's "Self- coefficient, and then the measures to be taken for the risk are determined based on the risk coefficient. evaluation Report on Internal Control in 2023" was prepared and disclosed in 2024. We have established an effective We differentiate the severity of risks into five severity levels: very severe, severe, more severe, moderate, and mild. internal control system to achieve full coverage of all aspects and links of the Company's operations, forming a When evaluating the severity of risks, the severity level is divided into five levels based on the violation of laws, standardized management system that can effectively prevent and timely detect and correct major risks, defects and regulations, and product standards, the severity of personal injury, the amount of property damage, the time of important deficiencies that may arise during the Company's operations. shutdown, and the radiation range that affects the Company. In addition, we define the frequency of risk as 5 levels: very rare, rare, occasional, sometimes, frequent. The frequency Internal control system of risk occurrence is quantitatively confirmed by evaluating the frequency of uncertain factors, the frequency of risk occurrence, and the possible frequency of occurrence, as the evaluation criteria for risk frequency. The Company has established an internal control system based on the Company's "Articles of Association", with core structures such as the "Rules of Procedure for Shareholders' Meeting", the "Rules of Procedure of the Board of Directors", and the "Rules of Procedure for the Board of Supervisors". It covers procurement management, production management, product sales, external investment, R&D, administrative management, and other aspects, ensuring that all work has rules to follow, preventing and resolving various risks in the daily operation of the Company, and improving operational efficiency and profitability.Risk countermeasures Risk countermeasures
Strategic Objectives for R&D Collaborative R&D mechanism Strategic Objectives for R&D
School-enterprise Open Lab cooperation Engineering Experimental Center Encouraging R&D and innovationEngineering Experimental Center Encouraging R&D and innovationFocusing on advanced R&D, with innovation as the foundation, ZKTeco's R&D Experimental Center is dedicated to The Company continuously improves its technology innovation incentive mechanism, formulates the "ZKTECO Patent advancing technology R&D. It has more than 20 laboratories, including electronic laboratory, optical laboratory, Application and Reward Measures", and further standardizes the management of technology rewards. Through various communication laboratory, wireless laboratory, reliability laboratory, etc. It can conduct basic research from raw incentive measures, the Company encourages employees to actively participate in R&D and innovation, improve the materials, devices, single boards and complete machines, creating a systematic capability foundation. Company's core competitiveness and market share, and achieve long-term development of the Company.The Guangdong Biometrics and Security Technology Engineering Technology Research Center is the only provincial- We set up incentive policies such as project sprint incentives, patent bonuses, and project assessment bonuses to reward level engineering center in the biometric industry in Guangdong Province. Relying on the talent team and research and commend innovative projects and talents on a monthly or annual basis, maximizing employees' innovation equipment of ZKTECO, the center accelerates the transformation of scientific research achievements into real enthusiasm. In addition, we provide employees with salary standards that match their abilities, organize annual job productivity with the goal of building a provincial-level first-class research platform for deep integration of biometrics qualification evaluations, and determine their positions and salaries based on the results of ability evaluations. by researching and developing key common technologies in the industry, thereby promoting industrial technological progress. Ecological innovation fund progress. Participation in industry seminars To build and improve the computer vision field, multi-dimensional perception smart terminals, scene interactive robots, Participated in the Biometric Technology Participating in the formulation of industry standards and norms can enable the Company to grasp the forefront of Guangdong Intellectual Property Advantage Enterprise" and "Guangdong Intellectual Property Demonstration industry development direction and carry out technology development and product layout in advance. Since its Enterprise" by the Guangdong IP Protection Association (GDIPPA) in 2018 and 2019, respectively. During the establishment, the Company has been focused on the R&D of biometric technology, and is one of the main participants reporting period, XIAMEN ZKTECO was awarded the title of "National Intellectual Property Advantage Enterprise". in drafting and revising multiple technical standards and specifications in the industry.In the fields of facial feature, palm vein, palmprint, fingerprint and iris biometric technology and its applications, Intellectual property protection products. Quantity Table of Suppliers of ZKTeco in 2023 Supplier assessment Counseling Meeting". For suppliers who score last 5 in consecutive assessments, the Company has considered reducing orders and eliminating them. Supplier access Supplier classification Supply Chain Security Management Clean procurement Supply Chain Security Management
management system of ZKTeco, improve product quality, enhance the competitiveness of the enterprise in the ZKTeco always adheres to the concept of sustainable development throughout the procurement management process. international market, and elevate the Company's management level to a new level, we have prepared the "Quality Before establishing a cooperative relationship with suppliers, both parties need to sign agreements such as the Management Manual" as a guiding document for the Company to implement quality management, and carry out quality "Environmental Protection Agreement", the "Commitment Letter for Non Infringement of Intellectual Property Rights", planning, quality control and quality improvement activities following the principle of customer satisfaction, in and the "Commitment Letter for Non Use of Hazardous Substances". In addition, before adding suppliers to the accordance the "IS09001:2015 Quality Management System Requirements" and the "QC080000:2017 Hazardous Company's "Qualified Supplier List", suppliers are required to provide the Environmental Compliance Declaration, the Substance Process Management (HSPM) System Requirements" standards, and combined with the actual situation of the Material Composition Declaration, and the Third-party Environmental Testing Report completed by laboratories with Company. ISO/IEC 17025 certification qualifications. regulate the active fulfillment of corporate social responsibility by partners in the supply chain, we have signed a "CSR Quality objectives Quality risk management Quality objectives Quality risk management control 07 Continuous Product Quality System Certificate（未完）  |