Enriching lives with
technology
Huawei Consumer Business Group (BG) today published
its Sustainability Progress Report. The report highlights the company’s
sustainability achievements over the past decade, covering four major areas
including information accessibility, education and health, environmental
protection, and corporate responsibility. This marks the first time that Huawei
Consumer BG shares its sustainability progress on a standalone report.
Huawei Consumer BG considers providing
global consumers equal access to technology as its corporate mission and
responsibility. Since optimizing the accessibility experience from the system
level with EMUI5.1 in 2017, Huawei
has been making subtle design changes to improve the experience for differently
abled users. To date, Huawei has included 15 accessibility options on
its smartphones, benefiting roughly 10 million users worldwide every month.
The value of technology lies in how it can empower
change. By integrating health management services into its smart devices,
Huawei gave every user their very own personal health manager and proactively
take health management into their own hands. At present, 1.8 million users have
downloaded and registered for an account on the Heart Health Research app from
AppGallery, and the app has successfully helped identify more than 4200
suspected cases of atrial fibrillation.
Huawei has always been committed to
green product design to minimise its impact on the environment. For instance,
Huawei includes multi-faceted and integrated power saving solutions into its
smartphone products. According to a power consumption test on typical
application, power efficiency on Huawei smartphones had improved by about 50
percent from 2015 to 2019. Since 2015, Huawei helped 500,000
smartphones find a new owner through its trade-in programme. By
replacing plastic packaging with fibre material, the plastic content of HUAWEI
P40 Series packaging is reduced by 17 percent compared with the previous
generation, reducing plastic use by 17,500kg per 10 million smartphones.
Adopting a standardised design, Huawei will launch the next HUAWEI Mate Series
devices that feature 68 percent improved packaging utilisation and 55g less
packaging materials compared with the HUAWEI Mate 7 Series. This means that for
every 10 million smartphones, Huawei saves 550 tons of paper, which is
equivalent to saving 9,350 trees.
Over the past decade, Huawei Consumers
BG has been working with developers, suppliers and industry associations to
proactively engage in sustainable development. For instance, the company has
been helping suppliers with carbon emission investigation, and results show
that 25 suppliers have reduced carbon emission by 540,000 tons in 2019. Huawei
Consumer BG had also conducted face-to-face conversations with more than 15,000
frontline factory workers to learn about their living and working conditions,
and have been working to ensure that they are living and working in healthier
and safer environments.
The publishing of the report sets a new
bar for sustainability and corporate responsibility. Huawei Consumer BG
believes that every little bit helps, and every bit adds up. From lowering
carbon footprint to improving accessibility, Huawei Consumer BG will continue
to make contributions to creating a better world for every person.