After years of double-digit growth that produced one of the economic miracles of modern times, China is now coming to terms with something many nations have long known – that corporations have an enormous impact on people’s lives, from the money they make, to the air they breathe and the food they eat.
Multinational companies took the lead a decade ago in beginning efforts at Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and now China is developing its own sense and system for how enterprises should behave in a fair society.