Green buildings help achieve the "dual-carbon goals", China Life will promote the entire society to accelerate the transition to green and low-carbon

The goal of "carbon peak" and "carbon neutral" is an important strategic arrangement for China's ecological civilization construction and high-quality sustainable development, which will promote the entire society to accelerate the transition to green and low-carbon. As the country with the largest number of existing buildings and the largest number of newly built buildings in the world, vigorously developing green buildings is of great significance for China to move towards a low-carbon society in all respects and achieve high-quality development.

As a central financial enterprise, China Life takes full advantage of the synergy and linkage of the three major business sectors of insurance, investment, and banking, and strives to use green finance as an important force in serving the growth of the real economy and stabilizing social development. Carry out ESG management system construction around the "carbon peak" and "carbon neutral" goals, protect the green waters and mountains, contribute to energy conservation and efficiency, and play an important role in supporting green and low-carbon projects and participating in carbon emission rights trading.

CLFC (China Life Financial Center), an office building project under China Life, is deployed in major cities across the country, including Beijing, Shanghai, Dalian, Shenzhen, and Suzhou. Many projects have successively obtained LEED gold, platinum, and WELL-CS certifications, and are recognized by global corporate tenants. Recently, Shanghai China Life Financial Center has obtained LEED+M platinum certification by virtue of its core location advantages, excellent building quality and operation and maintenance capabilities. This is another project that has won this honor after Dalian China Life Hope Building obtained the first LEED+M platinum certification in Northeast China. The Beijing China Life Financial Center project is the first healthy and smart building that has obtained the LEED+WELL dual gold certification in the office sector in China.

China Life Financial Center is committed to the development and application of new technologies, and continues to innovate on the road of green, low-carbon, energy-saving and emission reduction. Through the "Green Building Certification", we promote the sustainable development of buildings, reduce the carbon footprint during construction and operation, and continue to meet people's yearning for a better life, and contribute to a healthy, comfortable and safe living environment.

In order to further implement energy saving and consumption reduction, China Life Financial Center has introduced a number of measures, such as the use of internal breathing double-layer curtain walls, VAV low-temperature air supply, vacuum garbage collection and other configurations, and the use of LED energy-saving lamps to transform the lighting system. Dalian China Life Hope Building also transformed the energy-consuming lamps on the periphery of the building and in the lobby into energy-saving lamps under the premise of ensuring the effect, extending the service life and greatly reducing the cost of manual maintenance and material repair.

Green development, low-carbon life and healthy humanistic concepts have penetrated into every detail of China Life Financial Center's daily operations. Daily 360-degree regular fixed-point deep killing and cleaning, lobby entrance prevention and control upgrades, 24-hour security inspections and other services, build a green ecological building for tenants, realize a green and healthy life, and make the building glow with new vitality.

China Life Financial Center restaurants in Beijing and Shanghai have opened light food bars to fully extend and implement the WELL health concept. At the same time, it is also actively promoting the normalization of catering economy, improving the green catering standard system, and building a "saving, environmentally friendly, secure and healthy" popular green catering service system.

In the future, China Life will continue to implement the new development concept and maintain its determination to serve the construction of ecological civilization. Continue to make efforts to support the improvement of environmental quality, vigorously develop green finance and promote green development, and demonstrate greater deeds in the process of promoting the green transformation of the economy with the goal of "carbon peaking" and "carbon neutrality".