ESG-Society-Community Engagement

Communication with Communities

LONGi always attaches importance to the communication with communities and tries to avoid or minimize the negative impacts of its business on communities. The Company also leverages its industry advantages to provide the community residents with a more convenient and happier life as a way to ensure the Company’s harmonious coexistence with communities.

Case｜ Blended measures by LONGi to reduce negative impacts on communities in Malaysia

Since 2022, LONGi has launched the construction of the Serendah Module Plant at the UMW High Value Manufacturing Park in Selangor, Malaysia. In order to obviate, minimize, or cushion the negative impacts of the construction process on the communities nearby, we have formulated a corresponding policy based on thorough negotiations with the community residents to ensure that the project would be carried out in compliance with both the local regulations in Malaysia and the park requirements for environmental and social responsibilities. Specifically, the policy covered following issues:

Community transportation: Strictly delineating the parking area of vehicles for construction to reduce traffic congestion caused by the construction project; cooperating with local enterprises to improve the road condition if necessary.
Pavement protection: Ensuring that heavy-duty trucks work under loading limits; requesting developers/contractors to sign letters of commitment to repair pavements if they are damaged by heavy-duty trucks for the project.
Community health: Issuing stringent requirements on matters related to the health of residents; mounting monthly lawn mowing in the industrial park and other relevant areas, together with weekly mosquito control and other pest control services in offices and living areas.
The environment in the vicinity: Controlling waste gas emissions and regularly testing the exhaust of waste gas treatment equipment; inviting monitors to keep air pollution under surveillance; building rainwater filtration ponds in the construction sites to intercept and filter sediment and pollutants; controlling the sediment in the discharged rainwater by sedimentation observation, sampling and testing, etc., as a way to protect the environment in the vicinity.

In January 2024, Malaysian government officials in the Selangor state paid a visit to the LONGi solar module plant in Serendah. Local LONGi employees shared their transnational training experiences at the LONGi Jiaxing Base in China, which enhanced the communication between overseas production bases and the local government and communities. A good foundation was thus established for upgrading the cooperation in localized production, talent cultivation and technological R&D.

A picture of LONGi directors in Serendah and officials of Hulu Selangor municipal government

Community Development

LONGi has a continuous focus on public welfare such as inclusive PV services and education support. LONGi also pays attention to global development while expanding its own business, being helpful in promoting energy equity and low-carbon awareness.

Inclusive PV services

Rural communities are built on relatively weaker economic and social foundations, but they are also suitable for the development of PV and other green energy industries. Consequently, LONGi gives full play to its advantages in PV technology and PV solutions, exploring measures to deploy PV technologies as a solution for relevant problems in rural communities and to help realize “inclusive PV services” in rural communities in China and beyond.

Case｜LONGi’s PV project to help build a “zero-carbon village”

In April 2023, LONGi introduced the “LONGi Sunflower” one-stop digital household solutions equipped with PV technology in Yaozhou District, Tongchuan City, Shaanxi Province. A pilot program of inclusive PV service was launched for PV promotion in the whole village. The revenue of the program was distributed to villagers according to the power generation yields and the roof size of a family’s house so as to create a “sunshine bank” in the rural community. At the end of the reporting period, the installation of photovoltaic power stations has covered 108 families in Kefang Village, increasing the income of farmers with an average annual power generation capacity of 3.81 million kWh, which is the evidence of a strong combination of economic growth and social responsibility.

Case｜A Thai island illuminated by LONGi off-grid PV system

Koh Jik is an off-grid island in the Gulf of Thailand where the life quality of residents is strikingly impaired because of the chronic insufficiency of power supply. So LONGi launched the project “Lighting up Koh Jik” in 2020 and has finished the development, financing, installation and operation of the project by the end of 2023. As a result, the company completed a cycle that secured the power supply by PV technology in the daytime and by the store of energy at night, realizing the self-sufficiency in electricity across the island. Meanwhile, the project has also facilitated the trade of its life-cycle carbon footprint. By signing a carbon emissions trading agreement, the project has gained an additional 1.6 million baht as a fund to compensate for the cost of electricity tariff so as to reduce the relevant expense of residents.

Case｜LONGi’s PV project to help build a “zero-carbon village”

In April 2023, LONGi introduced the “LONGi Sunflower” one-stop digital household solutions equipped with PV technology in Yaozhou District, Tongchuan City, Shaanxi Province. A pilot program of inclusive PV service was launched for PV promotion in the whole village. The revenue of the program was distributed to villagers according to the power generation yields and the roof size of a family’s house so as to create a “sunshine bank” in the rural community. At the end of the reporting period, the installation of photovoltaic power stations has covered 108 families in Kefang Village, increasing the income of farmers with an average annual power generation capacity of 3.81 million kWh, which is the evidence of a strong combination of economic growth and social responsibility.

Case｜A Thai island illuminated by LONGi off-grid PV system

Koh Jik is an off-grid island in the Gulf of Thailand where the life quality of residents is strikingly impaired because of the chronic insufficiency of power supply. So LONGi launched the project “Lighting up Koh Jik” in 2020 and has finished the development, financing, installation and operation of the project by the end of 2023. As a result, the company completed a cycle that secured the power supply by PV technology in the daytime and by the store of energy at night, realizing the self-sufficiency in electricity across the island. Meanwhile, the project has also facilitated the trade of its life-cycle carbon footprint. By signing a carbon emissions trading agreement, the project has gained an additional 1.6 million baht as a fund to compensate for the cost of electricity tariff so as to reduce the relevant expense of residents.

Donation to public welfare

In 2023, LONGi continued to strengthen the infrastructure of the communities where it operated, and carried on to support education, to optimize public services and to promote green and low-carbon development through donations to public welfare. In doing so, the Company breathed new life into the communities and enhanced the residents’ sense of gain. During the reporting period, the Company implemented 48 projects for education support and public welfare donation, having donated a total of RMB12,759,200 to benefit nearly 36,000 people.

Case｜Diversified campaigns by LONGi to support communities

Supporting rural infrastructure development in the Province of Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Hebei and other places.
Constructing a 500kWp village-level PV power plant in Lingyun County, Guangxi Province to facilitate the sustainable development of local communities.
Supporting cultural activities and donating facilities essential for the daily lives of the residents in Yuanjiang and Huaping, Yunnan Province.
Participating in the matching gift program on the September 9th Public Welfare Day in Taizhou, Jiangsu Province as a way to help the development of local social welfare and charity undertakings.
Zhejiang LONGi and Shaanxi LONGi Leye convened their employees to visit nursing homes and special education institutions and donated daily necessities.
Jiaxing LONGi donated 400,000 RMB to support the charity campaigns in Xiuzhou District in Jiaxing City as a way to spread warmth and care in society.

Except for promoting the development of overseas business, the Company takes the initiative to fulfill its overseas social responsibility. After the severe earthquake in Turkey and Morocco in 2023, the overseas subsidiaries of LONGi joined hands with their partners to donate PV modules to the disaster-stricken communities to support the post-disaster reconstruction of the communities’ power facilities.

Case｜The partnership agreement settled between LONGi and the UNHCR at the COP28

In December 2023, LONGi announced at COP28 that it had settled a partnership with the UNHCR to strengthen the endeavor on climate action, energy equity, green transformation and the like. The two parties will firstly spearhead the construction of a PV power plant at a humanitarian storage center in Uzbekistan, and then will serve Pakistan with PV systems and solutions to equip public facilities in refugee and host communities with safe, reliable and clean energy. The two parties will also offer skill training on PV technology for refugee and host communities in support of the global humanitarian actions of the UNHCR.

Case｜PV module products donated by LONGi to AL Zaharaa hospital in Lebanon

In March 2023, LONGi donated 20kW of its highly effective module product, the Hi-MO X6, to Al Zaharaa hospital in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon. As a customized product of LONGi for users of distributed products, the modules offer a reliable clean energy solution to hospitals, relieving the pressure of energy supply for the hospital. The project is the first one completed to deploy Hi-MO X6 in the Middle East, setting a new example for the sustainable development of local communities.

Case｜The partnership agreement settled between LONGi and the UNHCR at the COP28

In December 2023, LONGi announced at COP28 that it had settled a partnership with the UNHCR to strengthen the endeavor on climate action, energy equity, green transformation and the like. The two parties will firstly spearhead the construction of a PV power plant at a humanitarian storage center in Uzbekistan, and then will serve Pakistan with PV systems and solutions to equip public facilities in refugee and host communities with safe, reliable and clean energy. The two parties will also offer skill training on PV technology for refugee and host communities in support of the global humanitarian actions of the UNHCR.

Case｜PV module products donated by LONGi to AL Zaharaa hospital in Lebanon

In March 2023, LONGi donated 20kW of its highly effective module product, the Hi-MO X6, to Al Zaharaa hospital in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon. As a customized product of LONGi for users of distributed products, the modules offer a reliable clean energy solution to hospitals, relieving the pressure of energy supply for the hospital. The project is the first one completed to deploy Hi-MO X6 in the Middle East, setting a new example for the sustainable development of local communities.

Support for education

In terms of supporting education and talent cultivation, LONGi carries out a number of school-enterprise cooperation and education support. The Company supports Lijiang City, Yunnan Province in the preparation for the establishment of the Lijiang Vocational and Technical College, and carries out school-enterprise co-construction and talent cultivation, and provides financial support to rural teachers and students in Yulin City's Yuyang District, Hengshan Mountain District, and Jingbian County, so as to improve the teaching conditions of the local schools.; Baoshan LONGi donated funds and surplus facilities of dormitories through Baoshan City Red Cross to the service center for educational development in Baoshan City, being steadily supportive for local education. Qujing LONGi set up “reserved classes” (classes of selected students who are guaranteed to work in LONGi after graduation) and scholarships in three vocational colleges in Yunnan. Ordos LONGi and Zhejiang LONGi also established partnerships with local vocational colleges to offer various financial support. Additionally, LONGi Malaysia sponsored the “Future ICT Coder Competition” of Swinburne University of Technology in 2023.

Case｜The cooperation between LONGi and the Dubai Campus of Heriot-Watt University to explore ways of education

On December 4, 2023, LONGi joined hands with the Dubai campus of Heriot-Watt University, an established British research university with a proud history of more than 200 years. LONGi was formally invited to become a knowledge partner of the University’s Climate Center, as well as a co-host of the STEAM camp to provide training for courses related to solar energy technology. In doing so, LONGi was able to make new contributions to the education of local youth and the research on solar energy.

Promotion of “low-carbon” concept

The exhibition hall of smart energy built by LONGi has realized zero-carbon operation and continues to carry out colorful educational activities to spread green and low-carbon concept, which are free for the public to visit by appointment. Since the opening of the hall, it has received tens of thousands of domestic and foreign visitors, including dignitaries, customers and students, raising the awareness of “clean energy” among the public through real-life experiences combined with the introduction of scientific theories. In 2023, the hall was formally recognized as a member of the “first batch of model bases of science and technology popularization in Xi’an City”.

Case｜LONGi Partners with ATP for Zero Carbon Race Program

In 2023, LONGi, the exclusive global solar energy partner of tennis’ ATP Tour, stayed committed to the idea of “making a green world with light” and cooperated with the ATP Tour to hold the event in a zero-carbon way. In the reporting period, LONGi and the ATP Tour organized tournaments in 11 regions, including Madrid, Halle, Shanghai, Tokyo and Turin, where a global energy initiative “PLAN GET” was launched to blaze a new trail of sustainable development of green sports and spearheading the promotion of “low-carbon” concept in communities.

“Breathing New Life into Old Items”

At the tournaments in Madrid, Halle, Shanghai, Turin and other regions, LONGi set up green energy zones for exhibition and interaction, where recycling stations were placed so that the audience of the tournaments could deposit used balls and other PVC/PET products in exchange for beautiful and exclusive gifts. Those recycled old items will then be processed into environment-friendly products for those in need.

The zero-carbon PV cabin

LONGi set up a zero-carbon PV cabin near the arena of the Rolex Shanghai Masters. The cabin was featured by a variety of photovoltaic products for its energy supply, offering the audience an experience of a green carbon life. LONGi also prepared an area for rest and charging outside the arena, which was equipped with PV power generation technology to satisfy the fans’ need for cell phone charging.

“Breathing New Life into Old Items”

At the tournaments in Madrid, Halle, Shanghai, Turin and other regions, LONGi set up green energy zones for exhibition and interaction, where recycling stations were placed so that the audience of the tournaments could deposit used balls and other PVC/PET products in exchange for beautiful and exclusive gifts. Those recycled old items will then be processed into environment-friendly products for those in need.

The zero-carbon PV cabin

LONGi set up a zero-carbon PV cabin near the arena of the Rolex Shanghai Masters. The cabin was featured by a variety of photovoltaic products for its energy supply, offering the audience an experience of a green carbon life. LONGi also prepared an area for rest and charging outside the arena, which was equipped with PV power generation technology to satisfy the fans’ need for cell phone charging.