2021 "Blue Book of Corporate Social Responsibility" released Peng Huagang: State-owned enterprises and central enterprises should attach great importance to important issues such as common prosperity, green and low-carbon development, and responsible investment

Beijing, December 8, China Youth Network (Reporter Yang Yue) "The 13th Corporate Social Responsibility Blue Book Press Conference and ESG China Forum 2021 Winter Summit" was recently held in Beijing, Peng Huagang, member of the Party Committee and secretary general of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, Ma Jian, secretary of the Party Committee of the Research Center of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council and vice chairman of the Enterprise Social Value Laboratory, and Sun Nianrui, member of the party committee and vice president of the China Association of Listed Companies, delivered speeches. At the meeting, Zhong Hongwu, professor of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and secretary general of the China Social Responsibility Forum, interpreted the blue book, which showed that the social responsibility development index of state-owned enterprises in 2021 was 55.4 points, down 3.1 points from last year.

Peng Huagang, member of the Party Committee and secretary general of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council Courtesy of the organizer

Peng Huagang stressed that enterprises, as the main participants in economic activities, the main providers of employment opportunities, and the main promoters of technological progress, enterprises play a very important role in national development. In the new era, new responsibilities, new deeds, the majority of enterprises, especially state-owned enterprises, central enterprises, should bear in mind the mission, while their own sustained and stable and healthy development, better fulfill their social responsibilities, attach great importance to common prosperity, green and low-carbon development, responsible investment and other important issues, and strive to make new and greater contributions to economic and social development.

Ma Jian pointed out that fulfilling social responsibilities, creating social value, and sharing development results with the society have become an integral part of the main business of enterprises, and are also the strategic goals for enterprises to achieve sustainable development. The research center attaches great importance to the work of the enterprise social value laboratory, and the laboratory will promote high-quality development with high-quality institutional guarantees, achievement transformation and collaborative cooperation mechanisms.

According to the Blue Book survey, the social responsibility development index of private enterprises and foreign-funded enterprises in 2021 was 33.7 points and 19.1 points, compared with last year, private enterprises increased by 4.4 points, and foreign enterprises fell by 1 point. This is the 13th consecutive year that the research group of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences has issued the "Blue Book of Corporate Social Responsibility", which systematically analyzes and evaluates the social responsibility management level and social responsibility information disclosure characteristics of the top 100 state-owned enterprises, the top 100 private enterprises, the top 100 foreign-funded enterprises and the enterprises in 19 key industries. Among the state-owned enterprises, the social responsibility development index of China Resources Group, Sinopec, China Huadian, China National Building Materials, China FAW, SDIC Group, Dongfeng Motor, China Southern Power Grid, China Baowu and China Telecom ranked in the top 10.

The Blue Book believes that the social responsibility development index of state-owned enterprises continues to lead, which is inseparable from the great importance attached by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council since 2008 and the continuous promotion of the central corporate social responsibility work. In the past 2020, in the face of multiple tests such as the new crown pneumonia epidemic, poverty alleviation, and economic downturn, state-owned enterprises have made scientific deployments and taken multiple measures at the same time, giving full play to the role of the pillar and the national team.

At the meeting, China's first batch of ESG (environmental, social and corporate governance) demonstration enterprises were officially unveiled, which are State Grid, China Southern Power Grid, National Energy Group, China Baowu, Chinalco, China Eastern Airlines, SDIC Group, China Resources Group, CCCC Group, and China Shenhua.

Source: China Youth Network