Xi'an, April 18th, 2025 –LONGi Green Energy Technology (hereinafter "LONGi") held its inaugural "Supplier Human Rights Due Diligence Awareness Training" for global suppliers through its Supply Chain Management Center. Based on the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs), the training invited the company’s sustainability and ESG experts to deliver systematic knowledge sharing, integrating LONGi’s best practices and case studies from leading enterprises. The initiative aims to drive suppliers to enhance human rights policy commitments and actions, jointly building a responsible green energy supply chain. This marks another critical step in LONGi’s advancement in human rights due diligence.
Following an introduction to the UN human rights framework, the training referenced China’s National Human Rights Action Plan (2021-2025), which emphasizes "promoting businesses to implement human rights due diligence in foreign trade, investment, and cooperation, adhering to the UNGPs to fulfill social responsibilities in respecting and advancing human rights," as well as "encouraging enterprises to establish permanent human rights training systems, integrate human rights content into workforce development, and cultivate a corporate culture of human rights protection." These references reinforced suppliers’ awareness of human rights due diligence.
Centered on the UNGPs’ three pillars—Protect, Respect, and Remedy—the training emphasized that suppliers must engage with stakeholders potentially impacted by their operations, take proactive steps to identify, prevent, mitigate, and remediate human rights risks, and align with the four core steps of Human Rights Due Diligence (HRDD): risk assessment, policy integration, impact tracking, and information disclosure. Participants were guided to develop tailored policies, risk assessment tools, and remediation mechanisms.
Through case studies, LONGi’s sustainability experts showcased practical measures to address forced labor and safeguard worker rights in its supply chain, such as publishing a Human Rights Due Diligence Commitment, establishing a supplier human rights impact assessment mechanism, and creating grievance channels. LONGi stressed that systematic identification and management of human rights risks across operations and value chains are vital to addressing the global trend of mandatory HRDD legislation and ESG compliance. These efforts significantly enhance supply chain resilience while reducing operational and regulatory risks linked to human rights issues.
The training concluded with the launch of a "Supplier Capacity-Building Support Program", offering comprehensive guidance from theory to implementation. This includes ongoing training, due diligence action support, best practice dissemination, and expert resource sharing. By empowering upstream and downstream partners to strengthen due diligence awareness and capabilities, LONGi aims to elevate the industry’s ESG performance and lead the photovoltaic sector toward higher standards of sustainable development.
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Founded in 2000, LONGi is committed to being the world’s leading solar technology company, focusing on customer-driven value creation for full scenario energy transformation.
Under its mission of 'making the best of solar energy to build a green world', LONGi has dedicated itself to technology innovation and established five business sectors, covering mono silicon wafers cells and modules, commercial & industrial distributed solar solutions, green energy solutions and hydrogen equipment. The company has honed its capabilities to provide green energy and has more recently, also embraced green hydrogen products and solutions to support global zero carbon development. www.longi.com/