#Becausewecare

Integrating social and environmental concerns in our firm's business operations and interactions with all of our stakeholders is a key concept which runs throughout our value chain. We implement effective resource management and energy efficiency practices, engage in charitable philanthropy activities and provide for the fair and ethical treatment of our employees in a healthy workplace. The 3 pillars of our company’s CSR activities can be summarized in three words: Education, Children and the Environment. For education, Our Company has concluded important agreements with educational institutions over the years including the Italian Università di Teramo and the Shanghai Jiao Tong University for an exchange program that will enable Italian students to come to SJTU and Chinese Students to go to Università di Teramo, with two of the students provided with the opportunity to receive a scholarship from D’Andrea & Partners Law firm; another with Nanjing University Law School, to hold the course “Introduction to Italian Civil and Commercial Law”, 16 classes that will give credits and will include also special guests from Italian Institutions and Italian firms’ top managers; and finally with both Sichuan International Studies University Department of Italian Language & Nanjing Normal University – Department of Italian language to promote cultural exchange between China and Italy, connect Chinese students with Italian companies’ community and help them to find internships and working opportunities in their firms. As well as actively supporting the activities of WILL (“Walk Into Life and Learn”) Foundation, a small non-profit organization founded by Pilar Tan for giving hope and a future to many orphans as well as also providing pro-bono legal advice ( IN CHILDREN ) For the environment, we plant trees to offset our carbon emission + ocean blue project cleaning the water. Our Company’s long-term environmental goal is to reduce our company’s carbon footprint to 0, while Our Company’s short-term environmental goal is to contribute through our day-to-day actions to reduce environmental problems such as air, water and soil pollution, through the aforementioned actions, we believe that we are on course for our goal. Since the incorporation of Our Company, we are deducting 1.5 RMB from all Our Company’s employees, to pay for the planting of trees to neutralize the carbon impact generated by all the employees, as yearly assessed by our HR Department. We planted 115 trees in Inner Mongolia to cover the emission of carbon footprint our employees (at Group level) in 2020. For the program “Action for blue” as the ocean is the largest ecosystem on Earth, and essential for all life, including humans, pollution of plastic and other forms of human exploitation have put our ocean at risk. In September, on the occasion of the International Coastal Cleanup Day, each member of our group will volunteer to clean up the coasts near Shanghai and using all the collected plastic bottles cooperating with some recycling brands to give new life to the waste For the children: contribution to Save The Children Organization, a Global movement to save the lives of children through better education, health care, and economic opportunities, as well as providing emergency aid in natural disasters, war, and other conflicts), donations to Heart to Heart (a special fund of Ren De Foundation, a Shanghai based charity which provides corrective surgery for Chinese children from all over China with congenital heart disease (CHD) whose parents are unable to afford the surgery), and the Will foundation, In regard to poverty alleviation, Our Company at Group Level actively supports NGOs such as Save the Children (becoming a long-distance sponsor of a Nepalese child) and Medici senza Frontiere (MSF), with periodical donations.