Wind, a leading domestic ESG rating agency, recently released its latest 2025 rating results. Modern Dairy (1117.HK) delivered an exceptional performance, achieving an impressive overall score of 8.78. Its rating was upgraded from A to AA, and its ranking surged from 31st to 2nd , placing it among the leading echelons in ESG. This significant rating upgrade fully validates Modern Dairy's remarkable performance in terms of its sustainable development strategies, ESG management systems and high-quality information disclosure. It also underscores the company's steadfast dedication and tangible accomplishments in environmental protection, social responsibility, and corporate governance.

Based on in-depth research of the mainstream international ESG standard frameworks, combined with the investment practices of China's capital market and the intrinsic characteristics of Chinese listed companies, relying on the strong data capabilities, Wind has constructed the Wind ESG Rating system with data-driven as its core. Wind has developed a rigorous rating methodology that can predictively assess the company's essential ESG risk and its ability to operate sustainably. It has covered more than 12,000 corporate entities in the Greater China region, providing customers with fully transparent underlying data and rating results, helping users to deeply integrate ESG data with policy-making, fundamental analysis, quantitative investment, risk management, and index compilation. According to its standards, an AA rating signifies that an enterprise boasts high management standards, low ESG risks, and strong sustainable development capabilities.

As a leading enterprise in China's sustainable livestock industry, Modern Dairy demonstrates its commitment to social responsibility by actively practising sustainable development principles. The company attaches great importance to environmental protection and green development, actively promoting the implementation of the ISO14001 Environmental Management System and “ISO14064 CERTIFICATE OF VERIFICATION ON GHG EMISSION”. It continuously optimises carbon management and resource recycling mechanisms to drive green and low-carbon transformation. In addition, the company places a high priority on the development of its employees and the establishment of a strong community on its farms. It has also implemented a comprehensive occupational health and safety assurance system and is continually refining its talent development programmes in order to build a mutually beneficial and sustainable industrial ecosystem. The company is continuously improving its ESG governance framework, strengthening risk compliance management and information disclosure quality, and steadily enhancing the effectiveness of sustainable development governance. Looking ahead, Modern Dairy will continue to implement its sustainable development strategy "FRESH," respond proactively to national strategies and calls for green development, integrate ESG principles more deeply into operational management, explore green practice pathways suitable for industry-wide promotion, and contribute to the green transformation and high-quality development of the animal husbandry industry.