On 29 May, the HKQAA Sustainable Development Forum · Hong Kong 2026, organised by Hong Kong Quality Assurance Agency (HKQAA), was held at Royal Plaza Hotel, Hong Kong. The forum’s theme was “Building a Sustainable and Livable City: Advancing Climate Disclosure and the Green Transition.” It also featured a thematic session on “Promoting Sustainable Property Management, Energy Efficiency and Inclusive Communities,” held alongside a Green and Sustainable Contribution Recognition Ceremony.
Yuhu Cold Chain’s Tianjin and Nanjing projects were awarded the Gold Seal for Contribution to Sustainable Property — Promote Environmental Protection (Mainland), earning international recognition for their outstanding performance in green and low-carbon construction and sustainable operations.
▲ Award ceremony
This marks the fourth consecutive year Yuhu Cold Chain has received this award. In prior years, five of its trading centres — Guangzhou, Chengdu, Wuhan, Meishan, and Jieyang — received the Hong Kong Green and Sustainability Contribution Awards in 2023 and 2024. In 2025, its Changsha and Xiangyang projects received the “Gold Seal for Contribution to Sustainable Property — Promote Environmental Protection,” while its Guangzhou project received the “Livable City Living Advocate — Promote Halal-Friendly Venue.”
The forum was attended by over 500 representatives from Hong Kong government departments, chambers of commerce, social enterprises, domestic and international financial and business institutions, and academic organisations, engaging in in-depth discussions on climate disclosure and the green transition. Mr Tse Chin-wan, Secretary for Environment and Ecology of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, served as officiating guest, and Mr P C Chan, President of HKQAA, delivered the welcoming address.
▲ The officiating guest and HKQAA representatives at the opening forum
Green and low-carbon development is the foundational commitment of Yuhu Cold Chain’s high-quality construction programme. Since launching the Greater China Strategy in 2020, Yuhu Cold Chain has systematically embedded green design, energy conservation and emission reduction, and smart energy management into the planning, construction, and operations of all its trading centres. To date, all nine trading centres have been certified as China’s First-Grade (Three-Star) Green Warehouses.
On smart energy, the Guangzhou trading centre has completed a rooftop distributed photovoltaic (PV) system covering approximately 35,000 square metres, reducing carbon dioxide equivalent emissions by around 3,000 tonnes per year. The Chengdu and Wuhan trading centres are installing PV systems of approximately 70,000 and 44,000 square metres respectively, complemented by energy storage systems and integrated PV, storage and EV-charging carports, using clean energy to drive a low-carbon transition across the cold chain.
For operational trading centres, Yuhu Cold Chain has established a “smart park” management platform covering operations monitoring, temperature management, traceability tracking, and energy optimisation. Leveraging IoT, big data, and AI technologies, the platform enables real-time energy adjustment, turning “digitalisation” and “green development” into a sustained competitive advantage in park management.
At the same time, Yuhu Cold Chain actively extends its sustainability commitment into social responsibility, engaging in the rural vitalization strategy and using its nationwide digital cold chain infrastructure to help key agricultural producing regions improve cold chain coverage and distribution efficiency, enabling quality agricultural products to reach broader markets.
Looking ahead, Yuhu Cold Chain will continue to deepen its green development path, drive iterative upgrades to cold chain industry infrastructure, and work alongside partners to build an efficient, sustainable modern cold chain ecosystem.
Award-winning Project Introduction — Tianjin Trading Centre
The Yuhu Cold Chain (Tianjin) Trading Centre — also known as the Tianjin Yuhu International Agricultural Products Trading Centre — is Yuhu Cold Chain’s first primary-level trading centre in the northern region. Leveraging Tianjin’s dual-hub advantage combining its international airport and seaport, the project is building approximately 300,000 tonnes of cold storage capacity alongside a digital and intelligent supply chain management system, closely integrating with the Tianjin Port industrial chain. It is designed to serve as an international agricultural products circulation hub for the three northern regions of North, Northwest, and Northeast China, and as a model project for integrated port-industry-city development. As a key and landmark industrial project of Tianjin Municipality, the trading centre embedded green and low-carbon principles throughout its planning from the outset, deploying blockchain-based traceability and AI-assisted sorting to safeguard end-to-end food safety. The project integrates comprehensive fruit and vegetable trading, fresh seafood trading, cold chain food trading, warehousing and logistics, processing services, and trade settlement, featuring two dedicated zones — a “Premium Ingredients Experience Zone” and a “Bulk Commodities Auction Zone” — and holds the National First-Grade (Three-Star) Green Warehouse certification.
Award-winning Project Introduction — Nanjing Trading Centre
The Yuhu Cold Chain (Nanjing) Trading Centre is positioned as an end-to-end cold chain food service hub and urban supply base for the Yangtze River Delta region, with a site area of 209 mu (approximately 13.9 hectares) and a total floor area of approximately 300,000 square metres. The project plans to build four functional zones — international cold chain food trading, cold chain warehousing, integrated processing, and ancillary services — making full use of Nanjing’s strategic geographic position bridging east and west and connecting north and south. It represents a critical step in the company’s strategy to deepen its presence in the East China market and complete its national physical fulfilment network. The project has been designated a member of the “Land Port-Type National Logistics Hub” and recognised as a national landmark major foreign investment project, further strengthening regional logistics hub functions, upgrading modern and digital cold chain infrastructure for Nanjing and the Yangtze River Delta, driving industrial upgrading, and injecting new momentum into the region’s high-quality economic development. (Correspondent: Jessie)
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