This report provides an overview of MTR Corporation Limited's approach to corporate sustainability and details its people, environmental and economic contributions during 2002. The report also describes MTR's progress towards achieving its 2002 sustainability targets and presents a set of challenging sustainability targets for MTR during 2003.

Guidelines produced by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) were used to develop the structure and content of this report. We present those GRI indicators included in this year's report. This report has been designed principally with online use in mind and the web version is supplemented by additional materials on a wide range of topics. For those who need a permanent record, a bilingual PDF version in English has been prepared and the Chinese version will be available soon.

This report supplemented by MTR's newly approved Sustainability Policy and has been verified by an independent consultancy.