China CSR Watch

By China CSR Watch (www.csrcsr.com)

Although nearly all MNCs publish CSR report, Ford may well be the first to publish CSR reports specially for China. And not only once, but twice.

October 18th 2006, Ford China published its second CSR report detailing its CSR efforts from 2003 to 2005. Ford China published its first CSR report in China in 2002 about its CSR achievement from 1992-2002.

The billingual Ford CSR report can be downloaded here: Ford China CSR Report on ford.com.cn

Sources (in Chinese):
Xinhua: http://www.xinhuanet.com/classad/zxft/20061018/index.htm
Sina Foreign Management: http://leadership.jrj.com.cn/news/2007-06-29/000002373777.html
Sina.com: http://finance.sina.com.cn/roll/20061017/0752979755.shtml

By China CSR Watch (www.csrcsr.com)

25 international and Chinese domestic companies were awarded the Best Corporate Image 2006 titles by Development Research Center of the State Council P.R.China, China Credit Research Center under Peking University, Sohu.com, and Guang Hua Media on January 29th 2007 in Beijing. However, the annual Best Employer title was left vacant.

“Employee relations is one of our key focus areas in our research criteria on corporate social responsibility. However, 2006 was the year that many employee relations incidents surfaced. This is a clear indicator that the public has shifted its attention from speed of economic development to the welfare and respect of individuals,” explained SHI Qisheng, general manager of Guang Hua Media.

The MNCs received these titles are Pepsi, Ford, HP, Coca-Cola, Lenovo, McDonalds, Motorola, Nokia, Loreal, Microsoft, Siemens, and Volkswagen. Siemens was also awarded the Annual Best Corporate Responsibility Company and Lenovo was awarded the Annual Best Management Company.

The organizers also published what claimed to be the first corporate image report in China, which can be downloaded at 2006 China Corporate Public Image Report (Chinese Version).

Sources (in Chinese):
Sohu.com
http://business.sohu.com/s2007/5180/s247803298/
http://business.sohu.com/20070129/n247915659.shtml
http://business.sohu.com/20070131/n247952872.shtml
http://business.sohu.com/upload/2006qyxx.doc