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 Hung Ming-ta (right), Vice President of Shin Kong Life, receives a plaque of appreciation from New Taipei City Deputy Mayor Liu Ho-jan (left), acknowledging the enterprise's active role and concrete contributions in sustainable actions.
 

Shin Kong Life Recognized for Responding to "A Million People Planting a Million Trees": Turning Health Steps into Green Shade to Expand Sustainability Impact

With the acceleration of global climate change, Shin Kong Life, a subsidiary of TS Holdings (2887), actively fulfills its corporate social responsibility and continuously promotes ecological and sustainable development. Recently, the company was invited to attend the first-year achievement presentation of the New Taipei City Government's "Plant a Tree for the Earth -- A Million People Planting a Million Trees" initiative, where it received an award recognizing active participating enterprises. By driving green lifestyle changes and investing in tree-planting actions through innovative methods, Shin Kong Life demonstrated its concrete contributions to promoting low-carbon cities and environmental resilience.

To practice the commitment to sustainability starting from a single tree, Shin Kong Life launched the "Walk GO New Forest Life" mission in 2025. This mission extended the sustainable health promotion plan, combining it with the Walkii APP's "Healthy Forest" project to encourage employees to exchange their walking steps for tree saplings, translating health actions into concrete results for environmental sustainability. It rallied over 1,200 employees to enthusiastically participate, accumulating 1.5 billion steps, translating to a carbon reduction of approximately 210,000 kilograms, and redeeming 151 saplings. Partnering with the Kaohsiung City Love Tree Association, the company held the "Creating a New Cape Paradise" tree-planting event at the Qieding Wetland, where employees and policyholders personally planted native tree species such as Milky Mangrove, Indian Almond, and Myoporum bontioides, implementing land restoration and ecological protection.

Shin Kong Life stated that every sapling personally planted is the most sincere commitment to the Earth, hoping that policyholders and employees can embody green values in their daily lives and jointly guard Taiwan's green future. Having long integrated sustainable development into its core management strategy, Shin Kong Life not only pursues steady operations but is also committed to promoting multi-dimensional actions in environment, social, and corporate governance (ESG). On the environmental front, aside from introducing energy-saving and carbon-reduction measures and promoting green operations, it also actively participates in nature restoration and tree-planting projects, extending corporate influence from financial services into the field of ecological protection.

The true meaning of corporate sustainability lies in long-term social participation. Through diverse public welfare projects and sustainable initiatives, Shin Kong Life has repeatedly won recognition from domestic and international benchmark awards. Its parent company, TS Holdings, has been selected as a constituent stock of the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI) World and Emerging Markets indices for eight consecutive years, demonstrating the group's overall strength in ESG aspects. In 2025, Shin Kong Life also won multiple recognitions, including the Global Corporate Sustainability Awards (GCSA), Taiwan Corporate Sustainability Awards (TCSA), Taiwan Sustainable Action Awards, and Taiwan Sustainable Investment Awards, showcasing its outstanding performance in sustainable action and responsible investment. Being honored with this tree-planting project commendation further highlights Shin Kong Life's commitment to putting sustainable concepts into practical action and actively responding to climate change issues and societal expectations.

The "A Million People Planting a Million Trees" initiative calls on enterprises, organizations, and schools to jointly invest in mitigating climate change, enhancing urban green coverage and ecological resilience through large-scale tree-planting actions, and promoting public participation in sustainable action. The initiative has currently planted over one million trees, achieving an important milestone in promoting net-zero transition. Looking ahead, Shin Kong Life will continue to deeply cultivate a parallel strategy of health promotion and environmental protection, calling on all colleagues and policyholders to turn concepts into action, continue exercising corporate influence, and co-create a harmonious and prosperous future for society and the environment.