China Certification & Inspection Group has reportedly issued the Green Market Certification to Carrefour's six stores in Beijing, making the French supermarket one of the first retailers to gain the certification in the Beijing region.

General Motors Company and SAIC Motor Corporation Limited have signed an agreement to expand their partnership to develop a new small-displacement gasoline engine family and an advanced transmission.

China's top mobile communication services provider China Mobile has signed a commitment agreement with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to save energy.

Samsung has adopted the VIA Nano processor, made by Taiwan's VIA Technologies, in the new Samsung NC20 mini-notebook.

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.

A green online game development base has been formally unveiled at the Shijingshan Science Park located within the Beijing Zhongguancun Science and Technology Park with the aim of spreading green online game culture, a spirit of self-discipline, and cracking down on unhealthy online behavior.

Sixteen environmental organizations including Friends of Nature, Global Village of Beijing, China Environmental Protection Foundation, and Green Home in Beijing, have made a joint proposal to citizens and environmental volunteers for a car-free day on August 8, 2008, — the day on which the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics will be held.