Bank of China Releases 2025 Sustainability Development Report

Recently, Bank of China officially released the “Sustainable Development Report 2025.”
The report provides a panoramic review of Bank of China’s focus on core responsibilities, serving social development, improving people’s livelihoods, and contributing to the construction of a beautiful China through 14 sustainable development topics, nearly 100 case studies, and over 200 sustainability performance data points, highlighting significant achievements and responsible practices.

Bank of China continues to build the “BOC Green+” global brand, launching dozens of green financial products and services across five major categories, covering loans, bonds, consumer finance, and integrated services; properly managing clients’ ESG risks by incorporating ESG risk management into the comprehensive risk management system; exploring and gradually reducing the group’s asset portfolio carbon footprint in an orderly manner, conducting carbon emission calculations for corporate clients in high-carbon industries within the credit portfolio; setting the “2030 Green Operations Goals,” striving to peak and steadily reduce the bank’s carbon emissions before 2030; integrating biodiversity into investment and financing decision-making, guiding funds toward eco-friendly projects; fulfilling responsibilities in green and ESG-related initiatives and mechanisms such as the United Nations Principles for Responsible Banking and the “Belt and Road” Green Investment Principles, practicing the concept of green development globally.

By the end of 2025, Bank of China’s green loan balance (according to the People’s Bank of China) was equivalent to 4.96 trillion RMB, an increase of 27.83% from the previous year-end. The issuance scale of domestic and overseas green bonds ranked first in the interbank market and first among Chinese peers on Bloomberg’s “Global Offshore Green Bond” list, respectively. Investment in domestic green bonds exceeded 49.6k RMB. The headquarters, Bank of China Hong Kong, and domestic branches achieved carbon neutrality in 856 targeted buildings, with the group’s greenhouse gas emissions decreasing by 18.28% year-over-year.

Bank of China attaches great importance to financial support for high-level technological independence and self-reliance, aiming to be a “partner in the innovation process” and a “co-builder of industrial ecosystems”; based on inclusive finance, continuously strengthening support for private micro, small, and micro-enterprise clients; launching the “BOC Silver Age” pension financial brand, actively serving a multi-layered, multi-pillar pension insurance system; continuously enhancing consumer rights protection systems, integrating consumer rights concepts and requirements across all business areas and processes; fully safeguarding employees’ legal rights and occupational health, helping employees realize their self-worth in an inclusive, equal, open, and harmonious workplace environment; actively engaging in public welfare, continuously carrying out公益实践 in rural revitalization, education empowerment, emergency rescue, community care, and other fields.

By the end of 2025, Bank of China had provided loans totaling 4.82 trillion RMB to over 170k technology-based enterprises, and loans to more than 57.7k “Specialized, Refined, Characterized, and Innovative” enterprises at the national and provincial levels reached 170k RMB. The balance of inclusive micro and small enterprise loans reached 2.77 trillion RMB, with 1.8371 million micro and small enterprise clients. Pension trust operation funds amounted to 1.32 trillion RMB, and pension entrusted funds totaled 48.2k RMB. Over 268k financial education and publicity activities have been conducted externally. Various institutions (including Bank of China Hong Kong) have carried out more than 300 public welfare donation projects.

Bank of China insists on the organic unity of party leadership and corporate governance, continuously improving the modern financial enterprise system with Chinese characteristics. The board of directors has established a Sustainable Development and Consumer Rights Protection Committee to strengthen supervision and guidance in these areas. The bank actively promotes the work of “Promoting Chinese Financial Culture and Inheriting the Red Gene of Bank of China,” leading cultural development with Chinese financial culture; making digital transformation a core strategic initiative to enhance digital and intelligent financial services; always adhering to prudent management principles, with comprehensive risk management as the foundation for steady development; continuously improving internal control and compliance management, upholding business ethics, and laying a solid foundation for long-term stable operation and sustainable growth.

The report shows that Bank of China’s sustainable development practices have received high recognition from all sectors of society. In 2025, the bank was awarded “China’s Best ESG Bank” by The European Money and was selected as a “People’s Enterprise Social Responsibility Case” by People’s Daily Online.

In 2026, Bank of China will more proactively integrate into the overall work of the Party and the country, firmly establish and practice correct performance views, continuously consolidate and expand its global advantages, effectively prevent and resolve risks, and create greater value for society, clients, shareholders, employees, and other stakeholders, actively contributing financial strength to global sustainable development.

Source:
Bank of China

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