【Top Ten CSR Events in China】No.1 Jiangsu Province issues Guidance on Corporate Social Responsibility Development

Since 2006, China WTO Tribune has set up annual columns of the top ten CSR events in the past year. China WTO Tribune presents you the Top Ten CSR Events in China in 2017.
 
No.1 Jiangsu Province issues Guidance on Corporate Social Responsibility Development
   
On February 8, 2017, Jiangsu Economic and Information Technology Commission and several governmental departments jointly issued Guidance on Corporate Social Responsibility Development (the Guidance). The Guidance clarifies the general requirement, major contents, work practices and guarantee mechanism of advancing CSR development in Jiangsu Province. It also proposes to establish a sound work mechanism for promoting enterprises to fulfill social responsibility, and build CSR evaluation system.
 
Reason for listing:
 
The Guidance is well-organized and provides thorough guidance on the contents, guarantee mechanism and evaluation. For enterprises, it is not only a guidance, but also the approaches and methods for them to proactively fulfill localized social responsibilities.
 
By leveraging governments’ guiding role to stimulate the enterprises’ vitality of fulfilling social responsibilities shows that the requirements for enterprises fulfilling social responsibility will be stricter and the corresponding external environment shaped by policies will be better. It also indicates that social responsibility plays a more important role in powering regional sustainable development and enhancing regional responsible competitiveness.
 
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http://www.jseic.gov.cn/xwzx/zcfb/bwzc/201703/t20170308_210487.html
 
Related events:
 
➤ On June 30, the International Standardized Sustainable City Club was established in Hangzhou. At the same time, the International Standardized Conference Base, the first global standardized professional conference base, was also set up in Hangzhou.
 
➤ On September 8, the Progress Report on Enterprises’ Contribution to the Sustainable Development in Shanghai (2017) was released in “Heading Towards 2040: Corporate Innovation and Urban Sustainability” Excellence Awards Campaign and Summit.
 
➤On November 24, Shaanxi Federation of Industrial Economics issued The Overview of CSR in Shaanxi Province during the 2017 Release Conference of CSR Reports in Shaanxi.
 
➤ On October 12, Shenzhen Office of Leading Group for Standard released the Evaluation Index System of Urban Sustainability. This standard adds 26 indicators in innovation and with Shenzhen characteristics, including “the number of PCT international patents added every year” and also adopts comprehensive index method to evaluate the state of Shenzhen’s sustainable development, which is the first try in China and in the world.