CSR progress starts fresh cycle, index shows

In the past two years, corporate social responsibility in China has maintained a strong level of growth and reached a new high, indicating that CSR development in the country is starting a new cycle, according to a recently released index.

In the first two years of the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20), the average index level was about 10 percent higher than the average index level during the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-15), according to a report released in June by the Golden Bee Corporate Social Responsibility Index.

Since 2009, China WTO Tribune, a monthly journal focusing on China's World Trade Organization-related work established by the Ministry of Commerce, started to evaluate Golden Bee CSR reports.