中科美菱(920992):2025年度环境、社会及公司治理（ESG）报告（英文版）
原标题:中科美菱:2025年度环境、社会及公司治理（ESG）报告（英文版） Incidents, we ensure the closed-loop management of environmental risks. Focusing on breakthroughs in energy-saving technologies, we upgraded our refrigeration systems and launched the next-generation DW-HL578 ultra-low-temperature freezer, which delivers a 30% improvement in energy efficiency. By adopting hydrocarbon refrigerants, high-efficiency system designs, and core technologies such as waste heat recovery, we effectively reduce energy consumption per unit of cooling capacity. Furthermore, we have introduced high- efficiency, low-noise compressors and fans, optimizing both system and structural acoustic designs to significantly lower operating noise. strategy as our sail and technological innovation as our oars, we will navigate the waves of the life sciences, conquering challenges with unwavering resolve. Through concrete actions, we will harness collective momentum to accelerate our growth into a world-class 2025 ESG Report of Zhongke Meiling Cryogenics Co., Ltd. About Zhongke MeilingCorporate Culture About Zhongke Meiling Corporate Profile Corporate Mission Corporate Vision Core Values Zhongke Meiling, established on October 29, 2002, in Hefei, Anhui Province, is among the pioneers in China's biological cell ultra-low Contributing to national revitalization and To become a globally leading provider of Dedication, Accountability, Co-creation temperature storage sector. On October 18, 2022, the Company was successfully listed on the Beijing Stock Exchange (Stock Ticker: serving the country through industry comprehensive system solutions in the and Shared SuccessZhongke Meiling, BJSE: 920992). life sciences sector Our core business encompasses the research, development, production, and sales of a wide array of products, including full- temperature-range cryogenic storage freezers (-180℃ to 8℃ ), -196℃ liquid nitrogen biological containers, biological safety cabinets, clean benches, centrifuges, fully automated ultra-low temperature biological cell storage systems, and pharmaceutical cold chain equipment. Furthermore, we provide comprehensive biomedical solutions encompassing various other laboratory equipment. Today, Strategic Planning our products are extensively deployed across healthcare, blood management, disease control, and public health systems, as well
Investor Relations Hotline Financial Significance Industry Exchange Industry Exchange Fair Competition Supplier Assessments Suppliers and Responsible Supply Thematic Meetings Partners Strategic Cooperation On-site Visits Chain Management with Partners 1.Environmental 9.Product Safety and Quality 16.Career Development of Product Quality and Management Systems Management Employees Customer Rights Safety Customer Service Hotline Industry Exhibitions 2.Mitigating Climate 10.Customer Service 17.Employee Care Customers High-Quality Services Responsible Marketing Official WeChat Customer Satisfaction Change 11.Information Security and 18.Charitable Activities PlatformSurvey Product Innovation Information and Privacy 3.Green Office Privacy Protection Protection 4.Pollution Emissions 12.Building a Responsible Rights and Interests Protection Departmental Meetings Training and 20.Anti-Corruption and Fair Employee Symposia Supply Chain Development Employees Remuneration and Benefits Workers' Congress 5.Waste Treatment Competition Employee Training 13.Supporting Industry Work-Life Balance Health and Safety Democratic Activities 6.Resource Conservation 21.Internal Control and and Recycling Compliance Management Public Health and 14.Protecting Employee Rights 7.Strengthening Energy 22.Risk Prevention and Safety and Interests Mitigating Climate Change Academia-Enterprise Management Control Philanthropic Projects Community 15.Occupational Health and Cooperation Communities Resource Recycling 8.R&D Innovation Engagement and Media and Press Releases Safety and the Public Technology and Energy Conservation and Development Information Disclosure Products Emission Reduction Philanthropy and Charity 2025 ESG Report of Zhongke Meiling Cryogenics Co., Ltd. FeatureZhongke Meiling's Ultra-Low Temperature Equipment Fortifies the Sample Security Empowering the Biomedical Sector Case System at Dalian Medical University through Digital Intelligence and Feature In August 2025, Zhongke Meiling successfully delivered a large-scale batch of ultra-low temperature Co-building a New Ecosystem for equipment to Dalian Medical University. These units will be deployed across the university's key faculties Healthy Development and laboratories, providing a long-term, stable, and secure ultra-low temperature storage environment for critical biological samples, cellular tissues, and research materials. On-site delivery of Zhongke Meiling ultra-low As emphasized by General Secretary Xi Jiping in the report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party temperature equipment of China, high-quality development is the paramount task in comprehensively building a modern socialist country. Technological innovation, in turn, serves as a crucial prerequisite for driving this high-quality development. In actively responding to major national strategic imperatives, Zhongke Meiling leverages technological innovation as our core driver to continuously propel the advancement of the biomedical device industry. We actively empower the high-quality development of related sectors, including healthcare, blood management, disease control, and public health systems, Serving the Public Health System alongside genetic engineering and the broader life sciences. Through these efforts, we contribute significant strength and deliver substantial value in our service to major national strategies and top-tier scientific research institutions. Deeply aligning with the strategic imperatives of the Outline of the Healthy China 2030 Plan, Zhongke Meiling leverages digital and intelligent technological innovation as our core engine to accelerate and empower the development of robust biosafety systems. Through the deep integration of Internet of Things (IoT) technology, big data traceability systems, and our ultra-low temperature storage equipment, we have constructed an end-to-end digital management framework Empowering Cutting-Edge Scientific Research spanning the entire lifecycle of "sample collection, storage, management, and application." This integration injects As an industry-leading provider of comprehensive system solutions in the life sciences sector, Zhongke Meiling actively technological momentum into our biosafety defense lines, providing smarter, more secure hardware safeguards for global champions independent innovation. We deliver robust technical support across diverse scientific research scenarios public health initiatives. and disciplines, providing the highly reliable equipment necessary to fuel the vigorous development of China's frontier scientific research. Leveraging cutting-edge ultra-low temperature technology to safeguard the integrity of biological samples, our products have been successfully deployed in top-tier institutions worldwide, including Peking Union Medical College Hospital and Nanyang Technological University. Case Large-Scale Deployment of Zhongke Meiling Equipment at a District CDC in Beijing Centrifuges Empower High-Tech R&D and Industrialization at the Shenzhen Institute Case In July 2025, Zhongke Meiling successfully delivered of Advanced Technology (SIAT) and commissioned a fleet of nearly 100 units at a district CDC laboratory in Beijing. This comprehensive On-Site delivery of Zhongke Meiling centrifuges On-site delivery of Zhongke Meiling equipmentZhongke Meiling's Smart Vaccine Scenario Solutions Empower Public Health Risk Zhongke Meiling Empowers the Robust Development of Overseas Public Health Case Case Prevention and Control Systems Zhongke Meiling's proprietary End-to-End Smart Vaccine Solutions leverage the power of automation, AI, and Zhongke Meiling is deeply committed to empowering the global public health ecosystem. We are accelerating IoT technologies to enable fully automated inbound and outbound storage processes for vaccines. This system our strategic project collaborations across regions worldwide in critical sectors, including healthcare, blood empowers CDCs across all administrative tiers (provincial, municipal, and county/district) as well as frontline management, disease control, genetic engineering, and the broader life sciences. Guided by our foundational vaccination centers (such as community health centers and township clinics). It accommodates the automated ethos of "serving the country through industry," we leverage our full-temperature-range technology matrix low-temperature cold chain storage and management of vaccines across all packaging specifications—from and digital intelligence to propel "Intelligent Manufacturing in China" onto the world stage. Over the course of full cases and secondary packaging to single vials—thereby dramatically enhancing both the security and 2025, we successfully secured major international contracts, including UN projects in Uzbekistan and Ethiopia, operational efficiency of vaccine administration. Characterized by automated operations, intelligent cold chain national healthcare projects in Mexico and Italy, and Red Cross initiatives in Turkey. monitoring, digitalized management via our Vaccine Warehouse Management System (WMS), and AI-driven automated inventory allocation, this solution uncompromisingly safeguards vaccine integrity. By maximizing operational efficiency and optimizing resource allocation, we are delivering a digital solution to the foundational public health system. September 2025: Zhongke Meiling CT-Q175R high/low-speed refrigerated centrifuges dispatched to Ethiopia Automated vaccine cold storage at the Shushan Automated workstation at the Linhu Community District CDC, Hefei Health Service Center, Hefei September 2025: Zhongke Meiling YCD-FL519 refrigerator-freezer units successfully delivered to the Ministry of Health of Tanzania2025 ESG Report of Zhongke Meiling Cryogenics Co., Ltd. Feature enhancing the nutritional value of food, promoting sustainable and industrial information services.Zhongke Meiling's YC-125EW ice-lined refrigerator meets the latest WHO PQS certification standards2025 ESG Report of Zhongke Meiling Cryogenics Co., Ltd. Feature
1. Site Selection Assessment: Incorporating climate 1. Production interruptions at risk assessments when planning new production regarding the building of a "Beautiful China" as the core guiding principle for fulfilling our corporate mission and achieving green manufacturing bases due to typhoons, bases transformation. In 2025, the Company established a "Four-Pillar" climate response management and disclosure framework covering floods, etc., leading to delayed orders Extreme Weather 2. Emergency Management Plans: Formulating governance, strategy, impacts, risk and opportunity management, as well as metrics and targets. Through a quantifiable, executable, and breach of contract compensation Affecting Long-term contingency plans for extreme weather, including and traceable full-process management mechanism, we safeguard the sustainable development of the life sciences industry and Production and 2. Logistics delays hindering the backup power supplies and production dispatch Operations delivery of high-value equipment contribute our biomedical technological strength to climate governance and the building of a Beautiful China. schemes 3. Power grid rationing reducing 3. Logistics Partner Selection: Establishing long-term production continuity partnerships with climate-resilient logistics providers 1. Decreased refrigeration performance in high-temperature environments, 1. Strengthening Testing Standards: Establishing a Governance Rising potentially necessitating derated usage product testing and validation system for extreme Phy-sical Environmental Zhongke Meiling actively explores and establishes a climate change response governance mechanism. By formulating and refining high-temperature environments 2. Increased compressor loads, leading Risks Temperatures Long-term policies such as the Environmental Protection Responsibility System and the Environmental Pollution Prevention and Control to higher energy consumption and 2. Product Design Optimization: Enhancing product Affecting Product shortened lifespans performance and optimizing operational efficiency in Responsibility System, we have constructed a top-down, three-tier climate governance organizational structure. This ensures our Performance high-temperature environments 3. Increased risk of product quality climate actions are well-founded, robustly supervised, and effectively implemented.complaints At the governance level, the Board of Directors established the ESG Management Committee to coordinate, research, and guide related 1. Water usage restrictions in regions where production bases are located, issues—including climate change response—and to steer the overall strategic direction. At the operational level, the Company established 1. Water Efficiency Management: Evaluating affecting production schedules the Environmental Protection Committee and its subordinate office. As members of the Environmental Protection Committee, the senior production water-use hotspots and implementing Medium- 2. Insufficient cooling water supply, management team and department heads deploy climate change risk management initiatives during daily operations, coordinating risk water-saving retrofits Water Scarcity and Long- affecting equipment operational response efforts within their respective purviews. Serving as the execution tier, the Environmental Protection Committee Office is composed term 2. Circulating Water Systems: Constructing cooling efficiency water recycling systems to reduce water withdrawal of the Company's Safety and Environmental Protection Department alongside part-time safety and environmental personnel from various 3. Rising water tariffs, increasing departments. This office is responsible for evaluating risk impacts and formulating action plans. Concurrently, subsidiaries and branches operational costs establish their own risk management systems to implement headquarters' decisions.1. Increased costs for export products, 1. Carbon Footprint Accounting System: Building Zhongke Meiling's Climate Change Response Governance Structureweakening price competitiveness capabilities for product full-lifecycle carbon footprint accounting to precisely identify emission hotspots Carbon Pricing Medium- 2. Customer purchasing decisions Decision-Making Management Execution and Carbon Tariffs term increasingly prioritizing low-carbon 2. Low-Carbon Product Development: Incorporating products, potentially leading to a loss of carbon emissions per unit as a critical R&D metric to The Board of Directors As members of the Environmental The Environmental Protection Committee Office is market share develop low-carbon product series Emerging established the ESG Protection Committee, the senior composed of the Company's Safety and Environmental Regulations Management Committee to management team and department Protection Department alongside part-time safety and 1. Energy Efficiency Pre-Research Mechanism: 1. Certain existing products may fail coordinate, research, and guide heads deploy climate change risk environmental personnel from various departments. Tracking domestic and international energy efficiency to meet new energy efficiency market standard trends and establishing a technological pre- related issues, including climate management initiatives during daily This office is responsible for evaluating risk impacts and Upgrades to Short- and entry requirements research mechanism 3-5 years in advance Energy Efficiency Medium- change response, and to steer operations, coordinating risk response formulating action plans. Concurrently, subsidiaries and 2. Increased pressure on R&D Standards term 2. Benchmarking Against Industry Leaders: Setting the overall strategic direction. efforts within their respective purviews. branches establish their own risk management systems investments and shortened leading international energy efficiency standards, technological upgrade cycles to implement headquarters' decisions. such as ENERGY STAR, as R&D targets 1. High investments in low-carbon 1. Building Benchmark Projects: Collaborating with In addition, the Company actively conducts climate governance training for all employees, covering topics such as energy conservation, product development, resulting in long key customers to create green demonstration projects Long Promotion return-on-investment cycles and accumulate good practice casesMedium- climate change knowledge, energy management, and waste management. Through lectures and demonstrations, these initiatives Market Risks Cycles for Green term 2. Limited customer acceptance of 3. Policy Subsidies: Monitoring and leveraging enhance employees' awareness of energy saving and climate change, inspire employee engagement in carbon reduction initiatives, Products green product premiums, leading to government procurement preferences and subsidy and create a robust low-carbon corporate culture, thus ensuring the comprehensive implementation of the Company's climate change fierce price competition policies related to green products 2025 ESG Report of Zhongke Meiling Cryogenics Co., Ltd. FeatureBased on the above analysis of risks and mitigation measures, Zhongke Meiling's current strategies and business models Impact, Risk, and Opportunity Management demonstrate high climate resilience, enabling the Company to fully adapt to changes, withstand shocks, and rapidly restore operations. Concurrently, the Company has identified the following climate-related opportunities and formulated Zhongke Meiling references the Corporate Sustainability Disclosure Standard No. 1 - Climate (Trial) jointly issued by the corresponding strategic responses across three dimensions: technological innovation, products and services, and the Ministry of Finance and nine other ministries in 2025, the Guidelines for the Preparation of Sustainability Reports by Listed Companies on the Beijing Stock Exchange (No. 2: Response to Climate Change), and best practices within the industry. supply chain. We conduct process management for climate-related impacts, risks, and opportunities following a closed-loop logic of "Identification and Assessment – Analysis and Evaluation – Response and Control – Monitoring and Review". This establishes a systematic, scientific, and practical framework, ensuring the Company can proactively address climate challenges while including production processes, supply chain management, product R&D, and compliance management. Regarding product R&D while concurrently optimizing our green supply chain system to achieve low-carbon development across the
a complex and volatile market environment, effectively propelling all business segments steadily toward our established strategic market shifts, industry developments, and the objectives. Covers of the Quarterly on Laws and Regulations and Capital Market latest legal and regulatory dynamics. Dynamics Journals compliance and efficacy of our corporate governance structure, providing a robust institutional Legal Compliance and Risk Management Zhongke Meiling places paramount importance on the quality and efficiency of our governance decision-making processes. By continuously refining our institutional frameworks and employing dynamic closed-loop management methodologies, we provide Zhongke Meiling comprehensively strengthens its corporate legal framework. Guided by the principle of seamlessly integrating support for the effective execution of strategic decisions. Through these multidimensional initiatives, we are actively constructing a "compliance, risk management, and internal controls," the Company has built a robust compliance and risk management system. By scientific and highly efficient decision-making ecosystem. cementing compliance as a cornerstone across all production and operational activities, we have established standardized processes for tiered risk assessment and continuous tracking. Furthermore, we place a high priority on intellectual property management and Continuously Tracking Resolution Closed-Loop Decision High-Quality and Efficient actively cultivate a strong corporate culture centered on regulatory compliance. Through these multifaceted and highly efficient Refining Institutional Execution Management Decision-Making management measures, we ensure that all business operations are executed legally, compliantly, and seamlessly. Frameworks We revised the Rules of We instituted a monthly By employing a "deliberation, During 2025, the Board deliberated Procedure for the Board of tracking mechanism to resolution, execution, and on a total of 197 proposals spanning a Building a Robust Compliance and Risk Management Framework Directors and the Working dynamically monitor the feedback" closed-loop comprehensive array of critical domains. Rules for the Secretary implementation progress management model, we These included financial reporting, of the Board of Directors. of the matters approved reinforce the authority related-party transactions, investment To effectively mitigate compliance risks and elevate our standards of lawful and compliant operations, Zhongke Meiling aligns its These updates optimize by the Bo ar d. This and executability of Board and wealth management, external strategies with actual business realities. By assembling dedicated compliance teams, formulating comprehensive policies, and and standardize the Board's allows us to prompt the decisions. This methodology guarantees, financing and credit facilities, launching targeted initiatives, we emphasize a holistic and systematic approach to compliance management. decision-making scope timely identification and effectively elevates both executive appointments, governance and procedural workflows, coordinated resolution of our corporate governance transitions, the performance of thereby elevating operational problems arising during efficacy and operational independent directors, and institutional We established the position of We have instituted a suite of governing In 2025, we formulated efficiency and ensuring that implementation, thereby management capabilities. revisions. All aforementioned proposals Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) to documents to provide robust institutional the Work Plan for the "Year the Board functions in a ensuring the high-quality were rigorously debated and voted coordinate the Company's overall safeguards for the efficacy of our internal of Deepening Compliance rigorous, transparent, and execution of all resolutions. upon in strict accordance with statutory compliance and risk management controls. These include the Measures for Management" Targeted scientific manner. procedures, guaranteeing the scientific efforts and to guide subsidiaries in the Administration of the Chief Compliance Initiative, ensuring the rigor and legal compliance of our fortifying their respective frame- Officer, Detailed Implementation Rules systematic and strategic decision-making. works. Furthermore, we have for Compliance and Risk Management, advancement of our com-appointed designated part-time Fundamental Policies for Compliance pliance programs.compliance and risk management and Risk Management, Measures for the specialists across all departments Administration of Compliance and Risk Investor Relations Management to oversee day-to-day compliance Management Personnel, and Measures for Zhongke Meiling adheres to the core principles of truthfulness, accuracy, and completeness in our information disclosure. In rigorous activities. the Administration of Compliance Reviews. compliance with regulatory standards such as the Stock Listing Rules of the Beijing Stock Exchange and the Administrative Measures on Information Disclosure by Listed Companies, we have formulated and publicly issued critical internal policies, including the Information Organizational Structure Policy Framework Targeted InitiativesDisclosure Management Policy and the Insiders Registration Management Policy. By continuously perfecting our information disclosure management framework, we ensure that the related operations remain strictly lawful and compliant.In accordance with relevant statutory requirements, the Company executes its disclosures truthfully, accurately, completely, timely, and fairly. During the 2025 fiscal year, the Company published a total of 159 official announcements. Zhongke Meiling's Risk Prevention and Control Organizational Framework: The "Three Lines of Defense" We have established a multi-channel, institutionalized communication mechanism to promptly address investor inquiries via telephone, email, and other means. Furthermore, we hold earnings calls and host investor visits for research activities. By leveraging these diverse channels, we
Zhongke Meiling has explicitly incorporated penalty clauses for business ethics violations into its contracts and agreements. We Zhongke Meiling resolutely stands against any violations of business ethics. Driven by a profound sense of corporate responsibility, we continuously enhance the efficiency of legal case resolution, conduct rigorous legal and compliance reviews, and refine the "Three anchor our operations in integrity and strictly adhere to ethical baselines. We are dedicated to cultivating an open, transparent, and Lists" for compliance management. By proactively identifying risks and reinforcing control measures, we are steadily perfecting our orderly business environment, ensuring that all information disseminated to consumers is true and accurate. While actively expanding accountability mechanisms and standardizing our operational systems. Furthermore, we conduct targeted audits in critical business our marketing channels and constructing comprehensive marketing management strategies to enhance product information reach, areas to elevate the Company's capacity and proficiency in standardized compliance governance.we rigorously standardize our promotional content and communication formats. By steadfastly committing to ethical practices, we continuously build an outstanding brand image, earning the widespread trust and deep recognition of our consumers. Viewing integrity and compliance as the very lifeline of the Company, Zhongke Meiling has established a comprehensive Code of Conduct. We have implemented a normalized mechanism for legal awareness campaigns and intensified training and education on Anti-Unfair Competition legal compliance, thereby deeply rooting a corporate culture governed by the rule of law.Zhongke Meiling strictly complies with the Anti-Unfair Competition Law of the People's Republic of China. In accordance with our Code To expand our international market presence and further drive the Company's global strategic footprint and business growth, critical confidential roles, actively participated in the program.and Business Integrity Zhongke Meiling has tailored three phases of precision strategies for overseas markets. Anchored by our core product lines and market strategies, these initiatives focus on "creating annual blockbuster products," "driving the in-depth promotion of the ultra-low temperature series," and "executing comprehensive rollouts of strategic new products." Through this differentiated approach, we are Intellectual Property Management significantly accelerating the market penetration of our latest innovations.Adhering to frameworks such as the Enterprise Intellectual Property Management Standard and the Intellectual Property Management Conferences and Academia-Enterprise Customer protection of interests for both the Company and its investors.Exhibitions Partnerships Summits titled The New Top-Tier in the Coffee World: Finishing a Symphony The "-86℃ Ice Cup Dirty" themed Scan to watch the user access protocols, data security controls, information security risk mitigation, and network defense mechanisms. This framework of Ice and Fire in Three Sips, surpassed 10,000 views within 24 hours campaign video enables the standardized governance of data and information while proactively mitigating diverse operational risks. During the of its release. reporting period, the Company recorded zero information security breaches or risk incidents. ARABLAB Live Dubai Online product promotion meetings Technological Innovation and Digital-Intelligent IntegrationAs a pioneer driving innovation in the biomedical low-temperature storage sector, Zhongke Meiling views digital and intelligent innovation as the core engine for enhancing its competitive edge. We are continuously refining our innovation management We formulated the Design and Development Control Procedures to explicitly define the management requirements for the system and leveraging digital platforms to elevate the efficiency of our project and technology governance. By delving deeply entire product development lifecycle. This standardizes the R&D workflow, ensuring that project execution remains rigorously into three critical technological vectors—structural engineering design, refrigeration efficiency, and software interaction—we regulated and controllable. Furthermore, we established the Management Measures for Product Development and Technological continuously unlock the empowering potential of technology. Ultimately, this provides vital support for achieving high-level Innovation Projects. Guided by the Company's overarching technological strategy and market demands, we leverage the scientific and technological self-reliance and strength. IPD (Integrated Product Development) framework to facilitate seamless cross-functional collaboration. This ensures a strong correlation among product development, technological innovation, and commercial objectives. Ultimately, it enables the comprehensive governance of product, technology, and software development processes, while facilitating the continuous |
