On September 7, ahead of the 33rd Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders’ Meeting, China General Nuclear Power Corporation (CGN) successfully hosted the 2026 Sustainable Development Conference in Shenzhen. Centered on the theme “Green Energy Across Mountains and Seas, Forging a Shared Future Together”., the conference aimed to present CGN’s achievements in clean energy and its latest overseas development efforts to think tanks and media from APEC member economies and Belt and Road partner countries. During the event, CGN unveiled its global brand vision, presented key technological innovations such as Hualong One 2.0, shared its best practices in overseas green-development and social-responsibility, launched the global corporate social responsibility (CSR) brand, the “CGN Shimmer Plan”, and officially released the 2025 CGN Sustainable Development Report. Zhang Xiaosong, Deputy Director of the Social Responsibility Bureau of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (SASAC), attended the event and made a remark. Among the distinguished guests were Wang Lin, Vice President of the China Association for Quality, and Mao Yuru, Deputy Secretary-General of the China Nuclear Safety and Environmental Culture Promotion Association. Pang Songtao, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and President of CGN, delivered opening remarks, and Li Li, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of CGN, outlined CGN’s global brand vision.

During the event, Zhang Xiaosong, Wang Lin, Pang Songtao, and Li Li jointly released the 2025 CGN Sustainable Development Report.

In his welcome address, Zhang Xiaosong commended CGN’s commitment to CSR as a central state-owned enterprise (SOE). He remarked that CGN’s sustainable development story exemplifies how Chinese enterprises collaborate with international partners toward a shared future. In recent years, CGN has implemented a brand leadership initiative led by principal officers and established a “Four Inclusions” mechanism to ensure brand strategy advances in lockstep with business development. CGN has systematically established a corporate social responsibility system, continuously deepening its efforts and delivering targeted solutions across multiple fields, which has earned broad recognition from society. Through concerted efforts across technological innovation, green development, energy security, rural revitalization, and public charity, CGN has built strong technical capabilities while cultivating an engaging and compassionate brand presence. Zhang noted that deepening CSR commitment and accelerating brand value enhancement are major questions of our times that central SOEs must answer well. Standing at the new starting point of the 15th Five-Year Plan, central SOEs should fulfill social responsibilities with greater proactive awareness, build distinguished brands to higher standards, continuously strengthen core functions and enhance core competitiveness, and speed up the building of world-class enterprises. At the same time, central SOEs should strive to win broad trust through responsible operations and build global consensus through a brand with human’s touch. He expressed hope that CGN will build on this momentum and achieve greater success in sustainable development. Staying innovation-driven, CGN shall forge the brand core competitiveness and lay a solid foundation for responsibilities fulfillment with technological strength. Committed to green growth, CGN shall demonstrate the brand’s sense of responsibility with green and low-carbon development. Adopting a global vision, CGN shall build a world-class international brand through win-win cooperation and demonstrate the responsibility of a major country.

In his remarks, Pang Songtao extended a warm welcomed to the Chinese and international guests. He stated that CGN was built on a strong foundation and had embraced openness and innovation since its inception. With continuous breakthroughs, its business has expanded beyond nuclear power into a “6+1” industrial portfolio covering nuclear fuel, new energies, non-power nuclear, digital control, nuclear environment, and shared services. CGN’s total installed clean energy capacity has exceeded 110 GW, with operations in 21 countries and regions. Committed to a green development path focusing on nuclear power, CGN actively expands into multiple clean energy sources such as wind, solar, hydropower, and energy storage to optimize the energy mix and accelerate low-carbon transition. As of August 2026, cumulative clean electricity delivered to the grid exceeded 3.8 trillion kWh, equivalent to reducing carbon dioxide emissions by more than 3.5 billion tonnes, saving over 1.1 billion tonnes of standard coal, and afforesting more than 8.55 million hectares. CGN is actively building an integrated "Clean Energy+" development model, promoting photovoltaic desertification control, the integration of offshore wind power with marine ecosystem protection, and the synergy between agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, and fisheries with clean energy, thereby linking clean energy development with ecological conservation and rural revitalization. Guided by the concept of win-win cooperation, CGN promotes industrial upgrading and regional economic development through its projects while concurrently conducting responsibility practices such as education assistance and community co-building, ensuring that the local residents could share the development benefits. CGN hopes to take this conference as an opportunity to advance the APEC spirit of openness, inclusiveness, and cooperation for mutual benefit and practice the Belt and Road principles of extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefits, deepen practical cooperation with partners worldwide in green energy transition, technological innovation, ecological protection, and livelihood improvement.

Li Li introduced that CGN’s brand vision is to become a world-class clean energy group with global competitiveness, focusing on breakthroughs in key areas such as production and operations, engineering construction, technological innovation, and digital intelligence transformation, evolving from a clean energy supplier into a contributor to global sustainable development. CGN upholds its core brand philosophy of “Natural Energy Powering Nature”, and defines its brand connotation as “Safety, Green Development, Innovation, and Responsibility. Safety is the foundation, with nuclear safety safeguarded as the lifeline and multiple nuclear power operating indicators ranking among the world’s advanced levels. Green development is defined as the brand’s character. CGN firmly develop diversified clean energy including nuclear, wind, solar, hydropower, and energy storage, while advancing integrated development across heat, marine energy, green power, desert control, and hydrogen to align industrial growth with ecological protection. Innovation is the driver of the brand. CGN deploys three major scientific research platforms in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, and the Yangtze River Delta to inject enduring development momentum into the enterprise through technological breakthroughs. Responsibility gives the brand its human touch. CGN has established 31 “Egret Classes” at 12 schools across five provinces in China to support education, and carried out overseas local livelihood initiatives through outbound investment and project cooperation. Going forward, while deepening project operations, CGN will embed its brand philosophy throughout nuclear power operations, new energy development, and overseas project construction, share the benefits of cooperation with local communities, strengthen long-term regional development through technology empowerment and livelihood initiatives, and deepen international exchanges to build consensus on green development and tell China’s clean energy story with sincere communication.

At the conference, Daya Bay Nuclear Power Company made its official debut as a corporate brand. He Liuyi, General Manager of Daya Bay Nuclear Power Company, noted that as a microcosm of China’s nuclear power development, Daya Bay Nuclear Power Company has taken a leapfrog path of “introduction, digestion, absorption, and re-innovation”. Its base has accumulated more than 144 reactor-years of safe operation, delivered over 1 trillion kWh of electricity to the grid, and supplied electricity to Hong Kong for 32 consecutive years, accounting for one quarter of Hong Kong’s total electricity consumption. The conference also highlighted multiple representative CGN innovations. Niu Wenhua, Chief Expert for Advanced Hualong One Designs; Duan Weisheng, Deputy General Manager of CGN Medical Technology; Yin Hang, Chief Expert in Concentrated Solar Power; and Zhang Yunwei, General Manager of CGN Digital Technology, respectively presented the Hualong One 2.0 upgrade, the technical breakthrough of Yuanyao I, the world’s first molten-salt parabolic trough solar collector with an 8.6-meter aperture, the core strengths of the next-generation FirmSys, and the latest applications of the BraggCure® proton therapy system, systematically showcasing CGN’s leading technology and innovative exploration in multiple fields.

Ouyang Zi, General Manager of CGN Energy International, gave a systematic introduction to the group’s overseas presence and good practices in fulfilling global responsibilities across three dimensions, joint energy development, ecological protection, and community welfare. To date, CGN’s controlled overseas new energy installed capacity exceeds 13 GW, with approximately 5.8 GW added under construction and in operation during the 14th Five-Year Plan period. It has delivered more than 370 billion kWh of clean power to 18 countries and regions, building an overseas portfolio spanning wind, solar, and gas power.

Employee representatives from eight overseas CGN projects took the stage in turn to present representative projects across Asia, Europe, Africa, and South America, sharing stories of overseas project construction and operation. Among them, five employees from Laos, Malaysia, Namibia, Brazil, and France, as beneficiaries of CGN’s public welfare projects, drew on their own experiences to share heartwarming stories of growing up alongside CGN and creating a better future together, vividly illustrating the social responsibility philosophy that “the shimmer of fireflies can come together to form a galaxy”.

Jason from Namibia, once unable to afford university tuition due to family poverty, completed his degree with a full scholarship from Swakop Uranium and has transitioned from a technical post into management at Swakop Uranium. Cristiele from Brazil joined CGN as a junior administrative assistant and grew into an O&M administrative management analyst. Her 82-year-old grandmother took her first flight, traveling 2,500 kilometers to visit her workplace. Khampheth Souphathone, a young woman from Laos, joined CGN’s Lao subsidiary with a try-it-and-see attitude, soon found that this Chinese company has a strong sense of responsibility. During project construction, it first drilled deep wells for water-scarce villages, installed solar streetlights, paved village access roads, and started an “Egret Class” to teach local youth Chinese language and new energy skills. Khampheth has since grown into a key member of CGN’s Laos Phase II project. Malaysian engineer Wan Afif, an CGN Edra Scholarship recipient, developed his career as an engineer and witnessed the Kedah Solar PV Project, which transformed formerly barren land into a “solar village”. French employee Paul, a SCADA technical coordinator at CGN Europe Energy and a local volunteer firefighter, noted how initiatives like CGN Open Day and joint emergency drills have brought CGN closer to the local community, establishing the company as an accessible, collaborative partner.

At the event, Mao Yuru, Ouyang Zi, and the five speakers jointly launched CGN’s global CSR brand, the “CGN Shimmer Plan”.

The conference brought together representatives from 31 overseas media outlets and think tanks attending the Asia-Pacific Media High-Level Forum in Shenzhen, including the Malaysian National News Agency (BERNAMA), ASEAN News PR Wire, and the National News Agency of Nepal (RSS), alongside journalists from over 30 mainstream domestic media organizations such as People’s Daily, Xinhua News Agency, Guangming Daily, Phoenix TV, and Macao Daily News, with extensive coverage set to effectively elevate CGN’s brand influence. More than 200 people attended on site, including representatives of local governments, supervisory authorities, shareholders, domestic and international think tank experts, power industry peers, industrial chain partners, international guests, and domestic and overseas journalists, as well as heads of CGN’s brand-related departments, brand and market development staff from Shenzhen-based subsidiaries, and employee representatives from overseas project companies.