"ESG is embedded into the company's DNA since ... day one," Martin Xu, who is corporate senior vice president at Honor, said Tuesday. Xu added that the business is focusing on a number of ESG-related areas, such as accessibility, environmental protection and transparent governance. ESG and IPOsHonor's Xu argued that ESG is inextricably linked to how his company functions and the business is certainly looking to make moves in the space. Among other things, this year saw Honor publish its first ESG Report, and it has also pledged that its operations will be carbon neutral by 2045. We have to focus on the R&D but link … all these factors with the company's ESG methodology," Xu said.

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Persons: Martin Xu, Xu, Honor's Xu, ESG Organizations: CNBC's East Tech West, Huawei, Shenzhen Zhixin, Technology Co, Environmental Locations: ESG, Nansha, Guangzhou, China, Shenzhen