Tongwei

Stakeholder engagement
The company discloses an overview of the issues raised during its stakeholder engagement activities and the specific outcomes from these engagement activities.

Sustainable development strategy
The company discloses its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability impacts as well as the outcome of this process, in relation to its sustainability strategy.

No leading practices were identified in the environment area.

Workforce nutrition
The company discloses that it provides breastfeeding support to its employees by providing breastfeeding rooms in the office, and refrigerators and microwave ovens where female employees can store breast milk.

No leading practices were identified in the social inclusion area.

Act ethically
The company includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with direct business relationships.

Provide and promote decent work
The company discloses the proportion of women in its total direct operations workforce for each employee category. Currently, women make up 37.5% of its Board of Directors.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company has an opportunity to link performance criteria in senior executives’ remuneration policies to targets and objectives which cover environmental and social issues. Furthermore, it could disclose whether its highest governance body has expertise with respect to the company’s most material sustainability topics.

Lobbying and advocacy
The company has an opportunity to report on its lobbying and advocacy practices on sustainability-related issues, and whether these activities align with its sustainability strategy.

Stakeholder engagement
The company discloses the channels it uses to engage with some of its stakeholders. However, it could further states the engagement channels for engaging with other stakeholders.

Sustainable development strategy
The company has an opportunity to disclose group wide targets on key sustainability topics for the most material parts of its value chain and to report consistently against all its targets.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has an opportunity to disclose reductions in Scope 1 and 2 and Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions, and set time-bound targets aligned with the Paris agreement’s 1.5 degree pathway.

Food loss and waste
The company has an opportunity to disclose its food loss and waste (FLW) reduction targets and report progress against these targets. Additionally, it can consider aligning its FLW reduction goal with SDG12.3, which aims for a 50% reduction by 2030.

Plastic use and packaging waste
The company has an opportunity to disclose quantitative evidence regarding plastic use reduction and use of sustainable packaging.

Soil health and agrobiodiversity
The company has an opportunity to enhance its disclosures relating to soil health and agrobiodiversity.

Water withdrawal
The company has an opportunity to enhance its disclosures relating to water use and withdrawal.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company has an opportunity to demonstrate how it is improving the nutritional quality of its products and to set targets to increase the share of more nutritious products in its portfolio.

Food safety
The company has an opportunity to disclose its commitment to food safety and demonstrate that its operations and supply chain adhere to food safety standards.

Workforce nutrition
The company has health and wellbeing promotion programs for its employees but could further enhance the program by incorporating nutrition-focused health checks or nutrition education. It also has an opportunity to implement a programme to offer healthy food options to its employees.

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
The company has an opportunity to identify living income benchmarks and assess living income gaps for some commodities and regions. Also, it could adopt procurement practices and develop supply chain relationships that improve farmers’ income resilience.

Forced labour
The company has an opportunity to disclose forced labour requirements for its operations and supply chain such as a prohibition to pay recruitment fees, to retain workers’ personal documents or to restrict workers’ freedom of movement. Further, it could provide evidence of how it builds the capacity of its suppliers to prevent forced labour impacts.

Health and safety of vulnerable groups
The company has an opportunity to recognise and assess the health and safety risks to vulnerable groups, such as migrant and temporary labourers, women and young farmers. Furthermore, it could provide evidence of support activities that improve the health and safety of vulnerable groups.

Act ethically
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy on prohibiting bribery and corruption and to establish a process to identify risks and impacts related to bribery and corruption. It could also disclose a confidential and anonymous mechanism accessible to all stakeholders to raise concerns and complaints without fear of reprisals.

Furthermore, the company could demonstrate ethical conduct by publishing a policy statement that outlines its approach to lobbying and political engagement and emphasises its non-participation in political contributions, or alternatively, states the criteria of exceptions. It could also transparently disclose all lobbying expenditures.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has an opportunity to demonstrate its commitment to its operations and supply chain workers’ health and safety by translating its statement into a policy document and providing evidence of monitoring suppliers’ compliance. Additionally, it could set a time-bound target for ensuring all workers receive a living wage and describes the living wage determination methodology. While it has set expectations on the wage paid by its suppliers, it has an opportunity to add a requirement for them to pay a living wage, and disclose how it supports the payment. Furthermore, the company could commit to gender equality and women’s empowerment and disclose related time-bound targets. It could also disclose the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men.

Respect human rights
The company has an opportunity to demonstrate its commitment to human rights by disclosing a policy statement that respects fundamental human rights, and the International Labour Organization (ILO) fundamental rights at work, in its operations and supply chain.

Additionally, the company could describe the process for identifying human rights risks and impacts in specific activities or locations, covering its operations and supply chain, as well as the process for assessing and identifying its salient human rights issues. Moreover, it could establish a global system to address these salient human rights issues by implementing preventive, mitigative, or remedial measures.