Achieving an ‘A’places LONGi among the global leaders demonstrating comprehensive disclosure, mature environmental governance, and meaningful progress towards environmental resilience.
CDP operates the world’s only independent environmental disclosure system and assesses thousands of companies each year. In 2025, nearly 20,000 companies were scored, out of more than 22,100 reporting through CDP’s platform. In 2025, 640 investors with $127 trillion in assets asked CDP to collect data on environmental impacts, risks and opportunities. It evaluates companies’ depth of reporting, understanding of environmental risks, and evidence of best practice – including ambitious target-setting and verified action.
LONGi recognizes that water is not merely an essential resource for production, but also a fundamental pillar for ecosystem health and community prosperity. LONGi has consistently integrated water resource management into the core of our corporate sustainable development strategy, establishing and implementing systematic water management policies that cover the entire process from production operations to the supply chain. At the same time, we believe that transparent communication would gain the trust of stakeholders and jointly address global water challenges. Since 2021, LONGi has consistently participated in the CDP Water Security and Climate Change questionnaires, disclosing its ESG management goals and progress. After LONGi achieved the leadership score (A-) in water security for the first time, we have continued to increase investments in water resource management. Finally in 2025, with outstanding leadership in water resources management, LONGi received the leadership score in the water security questionnaire in 2025 for the second year and was included in the prestigious annual ‘A' List.
In 2024, LONGi strengthens the sustainable management of water resource utilization and improves water efficiency, and has established water resource management policies and water-saving requirements to reduce wastewater generation and discharge. During the operation, LONGi continues to optimize its water use structure and advances water stress assessments for the rational development and efficient utilization of regional water resources with water-saving technological upgrades, wastewater treatment and reuse projects, and other related projects to improve water resource efficiency at production sites while reducing wastewater discharge. In 2024, we conducted water resource risk assessments at all operational locations, and, formulate water-saving policies and plans, clarify water-saving targets. In 2024, the Group’s overall water use intensity target1 was to decrease 13.8%, compared to 2023, while the actual decrease was (meeting the target)24.8%.
In addition, LONGi monitors the water footprint of products and has joined the LWFI1, collaborating with value chain partners to alleviate local water resource pressures. We establish water footprint management plans by product type, monitor the water use intensity of products, and explore the construction of “zero wastewater discharge” factories. In 2024, by analyzing the water-saving potential of all production stages and employing alternative water measures such as gray water recycling, concentrated water recycling, and rainwater recycling, the reduction rate of water use intensity was considerably reduced in monocrystalline silicon, wafers, and cells compared to 2023, especially in the cell sector, with an actual reduction of 44.5%.
Water is the source of life and the core of sustainable development. LONGi will continue to uphold its commitment to water security with high standards, driving efficient water resource utilization through technological innovation to protect every precious drop of water on this blue planet for a sustainable future for humanity.
