The Company adopts a management model in which the Supply Chain Centre in the headquarters as the core and production facilities performs access, auditing, and procurement assessments in coordination to ensure that their quality meets the overall requirements of the Company. To regulate suppliers’ social responsibility and ESG management, the Company has formulated the Supplier Social Responsibility Code of Conduct, which sets out management requirements for labour rights and interests, health and safety, environmental protection, business ethics, and other related requirements. It also requires suppliers to conduct ESG risk assessment and sustainability management, and take audits of their own suppliers by take the content of the Code of Conduct into consideration.

Meanwhile, the Company has formulated the Green Supply Chain Management Method, which defines the need to take the environmental impact of suppliers’ production and operation into account when purchasing. In addition, the Company’s green procurement process has been defined in the Procurement Control Procedures. For more detail on green management measures for supply chain, please refer to Chapter “Reducing the Production Carbon Footprint”.