During the 2025 the 8th China International PV and Energy Storage Industry Conference, PV enterprises from around the world witnessed a significant beginning—the official launch of the Tongwei-WWF Arctic Conservation and Renewable Energy (RE) Development & Cooperation Project. Tongwei officially became the first Chinese private enterprise and the first PV company to engage in long-term, in-depth climate and energy cooperation by joining the WWF Arctic Conservation Project.

At the launch ceremony, key figures including Ms. Lu Lunyan, Chief Representative of World Wide Fund for Nature (Switzerland) - China Programme Office; Liu Shuqi, Chairwoman and CEO of Tongwei Co., Ltd.; Jerry Stokes, Senior Advisor of the Global Solar Council; Feng Chang, Administrative Director and Trade Union Chairman of Tongwei Co., Ltd.; Xue Qingsong, Marketing Vice President of Tongwei Co., Ltd.; and Zhu Zihan, Chief Sustainability Officer of Tongwei Co., Ltd., attended and witnessed this important moment.

This is a gradually unfolding, long-term commitment to cooperation

The Arctic is at the forefront of global climate change. As an "amplifier" of the global climate system, its warming rate is three to four times the global average. Sea ice is melting at an unprecedented pace, the structure and rhythm of the ecosystem are being reshuffled, species distributions are shifting, marine food chains are being disrupted, and biodiversity is facing new uncertainties. All of this is not just a distant polar tale—it is profoundly affecting global atmospheric circulation and ocean current systems, becoming a shared climate issue for humanity.

As a near-Arctic state, China has always paid close attention to the impact of polar ecological changes on global systems and has been continuously enhancing its scientific understanding and international collaboration capabilities regarding polar climate and ecosystems. Chinese enterprises, as an important part of the national ecological responsibility system, are also participating in global ecological issues through their professional expertise.

In the Arctic, wildlife is losing the sea ice habitats they depend on for survival.

The cooperation between Tongwei and WWF will focus on enhancing the resilience of the Arctic ecosystem, with the core goals of supporting global climate response and biodiversity conservation. From protecting key habitats to developing data tools, from exploring community coexistence to establishing long-term monitoring systems, the collaboration will span multiple levels of conservation work: making sustained investments in ecological corridors to support long-term monitoring of "multi-year ice" areas; promoting more sustainable "human-Arctic ecosphere" coexistence mechanisms in community practices; and advancing scientific monitoring and decision-making tool development on the data front, ensuring every conservation action can be recorded, evaluated, and optimized.

The accelerated application of renewable energy is another beacon on this path

While clean energy cannot stop the melting of sea ice, it is a key pathway to mitigating global warming and alleviating ecological degradation. As a globally recognized major contributor to carbon reduction, China has always been at the forefront of promoting renewable energy development. As early as the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, China established clean energy as a national energy strategic priority, charting a sustainable development path guided by green and low-carbon principles. Under the leadership of the "Dual Carbon" goals (carbon peaking and carbon neutrality), China's installed capacity of clean energy such as PV, wind power, and hydropower continues to rank first globally.

As a key player in China's green energy sector, Tongwei has always adhered to the vision of "For Better Life," continuously promoting the deep integration of green energy and ecological protection. On the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, with an average altitude of over 4,500 meters, Tongwei has illuminated the "Roof of the World" with PV, bringing green energy to frontline ecological areas such as Hoh Xil, the Three-River-Source region, and the Sichuan-Tibet line. Since 2018, Tongwei has donated off-grid PV systems for multiple consecutive years to the "Qinghai-Tibet Green Station" series of projects, providing continuous power for numerous environmental stations, observation points, and field monitoring equipment, supporting practical work like waste recycling, water source protection, and species observation.

Tongwei donates PV power generation systems to the "Qinghai-Xizang Green Station" public welfare project

Building on this foundation, Tongwei launched the "Tongwei and Its Friends" initiative, bringing the conservation stories of plateau species such as the Tibetan antelope and the bar-headed goose into the public eye, using real imagery to raise societal awareness of biodiversity. Tongwei consistently regards the "tiny lives" in nature within the framework of its grand responsibility, illuminating the plateau while also fostering public understanding and resonance with ecological issues.

The cooperation with WWF is a natural extension of Tongwei's ecological responsibility system and a significant step in its active participation in international environmental issues amid its global expansion.

Ms. Lu Lunyan, Chief Representative of World Wide Fund for Nature (Switzerland) - China Programme Office, delivering a keynote speech at the 2025 Tongwei High-Efficiency Module Global Partners Conference Overseas Sub-Forum.

Through the partnership with WWF, Tongwei is integrating its professional expertise in renewable energy and its global network into the practice of polar ecosystem conservation: providing the project with stable resource support and organizational backing, facilitating the faster application of scientific research results, and translating them into practical conservation actions; leveraging its industry influence and international cooperation experience to bring polar issues into broader public discourse, fostering cross-sector understanding, participation, and support. As Tongwei's global footprint expands, so does its environmental responsibility. Starting from the Arctic, this collaboration represents a crucial step for Tongwei in translating responsibility into concrete actions and actively responding to global ecological challenges.

The Tongwei-WWF cooperation will advance based on clear phased objectives. At each stage, the two parties will work closely to translate research outcomes into tangible actions, including polar species monitoring, community coexistence management, and protection of key ecological areas. Through periodic reviews and public communication, they will continuously refine methods, accumulate experience, and gradually establish a sustainable, replicable practical pathway. Tongwei aims to consolidate effective field conservation experiences into long-term, systematic progress and to combine its corporate capabilities with the professional expertise of international environmental organizations, creating a "joint model" that can be shared and adopted by more partners.

This is not only a cooperation agreement, but also a promise for the future.

For Tongwei, clean energy is both a strategy and an industry, as well as a value and a belief. Tongwei is willing to apply its understanding of technology, manufacturing, and global collaboration to protect the Earth, our shared home. It is committed to working with WWF, research institutions, communities, and more industry partners to ensure that every effort directly addresses the front lines most vulnerable to climate change.

There is no ready-made roadmap between polar conservation and energy transition. This is both a long-term humanistic practice and a collaborative challenge spanning science, communities, industry, and the public. Faced with the reality of continuously melting ice and rapidly reshaping ecosystems, along with the impacts of climate change that are difficult to measure with short-term indicators, choosing to remain committed, maintaining patience, and persisting in advancing every step with science and responsibility is itself a firm and clear commitment.

As the points of light on the launch device gradually converged, all eyes focused once again in the same direction—to do what is right yet difficult. The partnership between Tongwei and WWF is jointly exploring a path that can be seen, recorded, and replicated: making conservation more effective, making transition more accessible, and turning the corporate vision of "For Better Life" from a slogan into daily reality, truly achieving harmonious coexistence between humans and nature. Let's set out from this moment, shining toward the future.