By ChinaCSR.com Editors
This last week produced a gamut of Chinese corporate social responsibility activity that ran from foreign companies companies downsizing their staff to safety issues still surrounding producers of milk products.

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.

China Mobile, one of the world's largest mobile communications operators, has just published its corporate social responsibility report for 2008.

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.

For the third year in a row, Motorola employees around the world took a half day off to volunteer in their communities on the Global Day of Service.

At a gathering of more than 1,000 leading suppliers, Chinese officials and non-governmental organizations in Beijing, Wal-Mart has outlined a series of goals to build a more environmentally and socially responsible global supply chain.

The China National Household Paper Industry Association — part of the China Paper Association — released China's first Paper Diaper, Environment and Sustainability report at the "Harmonious Environment, Love Life — Paper Diaper, Environment and Sustainability Forum" held in Shanghai.