China’s transition. The world’s business.
27 Apr–03 May 2026
Focus event: A-share companies completed the first mandatory ESG reporting cycle for 2025 reports on April 30.
The cover story
Focus event: A-share companies completed the first mandatory ESG reporting cycle for 2025 reports on April 30.
Read the cover storyFocus event: The National Energy Administration’s April 27 quarterly briefing showed rapid renewable expansion and forthcoming policies on consumption and green-power direct connection.
Focus event: At the April 27 NEA briefing, officials said they would improve green-certificate pricing, study a price index and clarify how green certificates enter carbon dual-control and carbon accounting.
Focus event: On April 30, the NDRC and SAMR issued the 2026 catalogue and implementation rules for China’s energy-efficiency labels.
Focus event: China Securities Journal reported on April 27 that listed banks used their 2025 ESG reports to disclose transition-finance practices in coal power, shipping, steel, aviation and buildings.
Focus event: The April 30 ESG reporting-season analysis highlighted supply-chain emissions in the storage sector, including an estimate that CATL’s supply-chain emissions were more than five times its core operational emissions.