Green Boxes Environmental Protection Campaign

With the development of telecommunications industry, the number of the used handsets is accumulating. This poses a potential threat to the environment. In China, there is no well-developed recycling market, nor any efficient recycling system. Against this background, China Mobile launched the "Green Boxes Environmental Protection Campaign" jointly with Motorola and Nokia in December 2005 to recycle used handsets and components.

The "Green Boxes Environmental Protection Campaign" took place in 40 major cities around China. Green boxes have been placed in around 1,000 counters of the Company, and around 150 sales outlets and maintenance service centers of Motorola and Nokia respectively, to recycle the used handsets and components.

In April 2006, 6 handset manufacturers joined the "Green Boxes Environmental Protection Campaign": Bird, LG, Lenovo, NEC, Panasonic and Xiaxin. The "Green Boxes Environmental Protection Campaign" extends further to other parts of the country. As at the end of September 2006, around 60,000 used handsets and components had been recycled.

The "Green Boxes Environmental Protection Campaign" has provided an open recycling platform for used handsets and accessories enabling more telecommunication enterprises and customers to be involved in and contribute to telecommunication environmental protection efforts, and raising the overall environmental awareness of the industry.

• Anhui Province
The "Green Environmental Protection Total Mobilization, Recycle Old Handset and Batteries" campaign recycled nearly 6,000 used handsets and accessories in under three months.

• Shandong Province
"Green Boxes" set up at thousands of the Company's counters and handset sales outlets recycled almost 20,000 old handsets, batteries and accessories in under two months. The number continues to rise.

Action

• We jointly held the first China Environment and Development Forum with the China Environmental Protection Association and the "Same Song" soiree with the theme of environmental protection.

• In Beijing, we organized many volunteer tree planting activities and adopted the ancient trees at Fragrant Hill. We are now the "guardian" of the ancient trees.

• In Lishui, Zhejiang province, we financed a used-battery recycling tower standing 6 meters in height and 2.5 meters in diameter; the first of its kind in Zhejiang. The recycling tower could contain more than 150,000 used batteries. In addition, we have been working with a local environmental protection volunteer association to place 200 containers to recycle used batteries in public venues.

• In Fujian province, we jointly launched the "Care for Migrant Birds, Protection for Wetlands" M-Zone volunteer campaign with local authorities. Members of the public were invited to sign up to become volunteers. The campaign organized groups to observe migrant birds in the Min River wetlands to promote participation in this environmental protection initiative.

• In Chongqing province, we invested RMB1 million to the reforestation project of the Three Gorges dam area, which was very well received by the local society.