For several years UTC and its business units have supported China's efforts to promote green building technologies and sustainable development. UTC's Otis unit is the first elevator company to receive a Green Product Award from the China Environmental Protection Foundation. Otis' Gen2™ belted, machine-roomless elevator system was identified as the "green machine" in 2005. Also, UTC's Carrier unit has sponsored the China Ozone Layer Protection Awards Program, hosted by the State Environmental Protection Administration of China, recognizing Chinese individuals and organizations making outstanding contributions to ozone layer protection.

The MOC is the central Chinese government regulator of the construction and real estate sectors as well as urban planning and infrastructures. [Additional background material...].

United Technologies is a Fortune Global 500 company (120th in 2005) based in Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.A., that provides a broad range of high technology products and support services to the building systems and aerospace industries worldwide. UTC businesses include Otis Elevator, Carrier heating and cooling, UTC Fire & Security, UTC Power, Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines, Hamilton Sundstrand aerospace systems and Sikorsky helicopters.

In January, UTC was named for the second consecutive year as one of the Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World by Corporate Knights Inc. at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.