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Brand appoints someone to follow up on green supply chain management in China, and the frequency of communication with stakeholders occurs more often than quarterly, OR Brand appoints someone to follow up on green supply chain management in China, and employs the automatic reporting form provided by the Blue EcoChain or equivalent systems to communicate with stakeholders about green supply chain management.

Brand updates published list of its suppliers in China at least annually and the list includes higher environmental impact suppliers; OR Brand pushes its suppliers in China, including suppliers with high environmental impacts, to use the Blue EcoChain or other automated methods to track their own environmental performance and commit to provide public disclosures regarding violations in a timely manner, thereby accepting public supervision

Brand employs the Blue EcoChain or other automated methods to track its suppliers’ environmental compliance AND pushes suppliers to track their own environmental compliance via Blue EcoChain or other automated methods.

Brand publicly requires supplier environmental compliance in writing and commits to pushing problem suppliers to adopt corrective actions and at least publicly disclose explanations about their environmental violation issues.

Brand extends its environmental management to chemical production, use and discharge along its supply chain, and publicly discloses matching requirements, and employs the Blue EcoChain or other automated methods to track chemical suppliers’ environmental performance.

Brand extends its environmental management to wastewater generation, treatment and discharge along its supply chain, and publicly discloses matching requirements. Brand identifies which suppliers use offsite wastewater treatment facilities, and pushes those suppliers to publicly disclose the name of centralized wastewater treatment facilities receiving their wastewater, as well as the discharge standard stipulated in the agreement between the centralized wastewater treatment facility and the supplier, employs the Blue EcoChain or other automated methods to track the environmental performance of suppliers’ centralized wastewater treatment facilities.

Brand extends its environmental management to solid waste transportation, utilization and disposal along its supply chain, and publicly discloses matching requirements, and employs the Blue EcoChain or other automated methods to track the environmental performance of suppliers’ solid waste transportation, utilization and disposal entities.

Brand has not yet publicly disclosed its green logistics requirement.

Brand has not yet taken action to push its suppliers to control environmental risks along their own supply chains.

Brand begins to calculate its greenhouse gas emissions, or publicly discloses its ongoing emissions reduction targets, or begins to manage emissions from its supply chain.

Brand has not yet publicly disclosed resource consumption and pollutant reduction target(s).

Brand has not yet guided the public into paying attention to the environmental performance of its supply chains in China.