By ChinaCSR.com Editors
The history of corporate social responsibility in China has as many variations as it has definitions. And understanding those definitions is key to realizing the assorted ways that companies and consumers have interacted in the past and how they will do so in the future.

By ChinaCSR.com Editors
This past week marked some of the first indicators in China this year that corporate social responsibility practitioners are already confronting the effects of the global financial crisis.

The world is hoping that a new United States president will help overturn some of the previous Bush administration environmental policies, and a report released by Asia Society's Center on US-China Relations and the Pew Center on Global Climate Change is aimed at pushing the Obama administration towards interaction with China on climate change issues.

Huaneng Power International's Hunan Yongzhou Xiangqi Hydropower Station Project has been approved by the Development and Reform Commission in Hunan.

Shenyang Zhonghong Renewable Energy Eco-industrial Park which occupies three square kilometers and involves CNY5 billion in investment has seen the completion of the first schedule of its construction and will be formally opened to the public later in June.

China Direct has launched  CDI Metal Recycling Company, a new venture to recycle aluminum powder.