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, and publicly discloses supply chain environmental information in the form of a map, OR Brand comprehensively 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 comprehensively pushes its suppliers to track their own environmental compliance, including potential suppliers.

Brand publicly requires supplier environmental compliance in writing and commits to stakeholders that it will push suppliers to adopt corrective actions, and pushes problem suppliers to promptly issue public explanations regarding the reason for violation, corrective actions already undertaken or in progress, and current compliance status in a timely manner, and pushes suppliers with high environmental risks to verify the effectiveness of the corrective actions OR continuously disclose information on corrective actions.

Brand pushes problem suppliers to promptly issue public explanations regarding the reason for violation, corrective actions already undertaken or in progress, current compliance status in a timely manner, verify the effectiveness of the corrective actions or continuously disclose information on corrective actions, and pushes chemical suppliers to track their own environmental performance via the Blue EcoChain or other automated methods.

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 pushes its logistics suppliers to control environmental risks along their own supply chains, including: employing the Blue EcoChain or other automated methods to track their own suppliers’ environmental performance, pushing problem suppliers to issue public explanations regarding the reason for violation, corrective actions already undertaken or in progress, current compliance status in a timely manner, and pushing suppliers to track their own environmental performance via the Blue EcoChain or other automated methods. OR Brand reduces the environmental impact of logistics processes, and publicly shares best practices on scaling up the efforts to reduce the environmental impact of logistics processes along its supply chain.

Brand pushes its suppliers to employ the Blue EcoChain or other automated methods to track their own suppliers’ environmental performance.

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 publicly disclosed resource use and efficiency, and pollutant reduction target(s) and the progress made against these targets.

Through product packaging, labeling, online and/or offline sales channels, the brand guides the public to understand environmentally friendly product design that is easy to sort, recycle and reuse, as well as the approaches and results of manufacturing, supply chain management, logistics, product use, waste product and packaging recycling, and other processes to reduce environmental impact or environmental footprint.