Yuexiu Property’s 2025 Sustainability Report: Five-Star GRESB Rating, Sustainable Finance Reaches 35%, HK$1.56 Billion SLL Secured

Yuexiu Property released its Sustainability Report 2025, detailing progress on climate strategy, green financing and community initiatives for the year ended 31 December 2025.

Yuexiu Property advanced from a four-star to the highest five-star rating in the 2025 Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB), leading all mainland China real-estate peers assessed. The company also remained a constituent of the Hang Seng Corporate Sustainability Benchmark Index and received an “A+” rating from Hong Kong Quality Assurance Agency.

Green financing accelerated: sustainable instruments accounted for 35.0 % of the group’s total bond and loan portfolio, up 3.2 percentage points year on year. During the period Yuexiu Property:

• Placed RMB 2.85 billion in green dim-sum bonds, certified by HKQAA.

• Signed its inaugural HK$ 1.56 billion sustainability-linked loan with pricing tied to ESG targets.

• Reported that green loans outstanding totalled RMB 30.75 billion, representing 49.1 % of total borrowings.

Environmentally, the developer cut carbon-emission intensity of public projects by 33.7 % and residential projects by 9.4 % versus the 2019 baseline. All new projects met China’s one-star green-building standard or above, while 90.3 % of operating commercial floor area is now covered by green-building certification. Energy-management systems cover 79 % of owned commercial space.

Scope 3 greenhouse-gas accounting commenced, with 1.04 million tonnes of CO₂-equivalent recorded across six categories. The group targets peak Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 2030 and value-chain carbon neutrality by 2060.

Social initiatives included education support, elderly-care services and volunteer programmes. Employee health-check coverage reached 100 %, and no work-related fatalities were recorded in 2025.

Yuexiu Property affirmed that sustainable finance will exceed 50 % of total bond and loan funding by 2030 and reach 100 % by 2060, under the updated Sustainable Finance Framework aligned with international standards such as ICMA and LMA principles.