The blue book on social responsibility of China's steel industry was released

As one of the important basic industries of China's national economy, the iron and steel industry is responsible for promoting the development of the national economy, promoting efficient green low-carbon transformation, achieving carbon neutral goals and other environmental responsibilities, as well as promoting social harmonious development and other social responsibilities. On November 20, China's first blue book on social responsibility in the iron and steel industry, the Blue Book on Social Responsibility in the Iron and Steel Industry (2022) (hereinafter referred to as the Blue Book), was released in Beijing, and demonstrated the excellent performance of 10 enterprises, including China Baowu, Ansteel Group, Hegang Group, Hunan Iron and Steel Group, Baotou Iron and Steel Group, Delong Iron and Steel Group, China Steel Research, Jianlong Group, Nanjing Iron and Steel, and Ningbo Iron and Steel.
He Wenbo, Secretary of the Party Committee and Executive Chairman of China Iron and Steel Industry Association, pointed out that the Blue Book not only fully recorded the major historical responsibilities that the iron and steel industry has always shouldered, such as implementing the major national strategic deployment, actively meeting the needs of economic construction, serving the people's livelihood, improving the ecological environment, and overcoming poverty, but also wrote a series of achievements that the majority of enterprises have actively explored and practiced the enterprise responsibility model with Chinese characteristics.
He Wenbo emphasized: "This is the first time to study and record the development, practice, progress and achievements of social responsibility performance from the perspective of the industry, which is of great pioneering significance. Of course, we clearly see that there are still some shortcomings in the current social responsibility work of iron and steel enterprises, such as the construction of responsibility capacity needs to be strengthened, the proportion of enterprises issuing social responsibility reports needs to be improved, etc. Under the requirements of high-quality development of the industry, our social responsibility work There is still room for improvement, and it still needs the joint efforts of the majority of iron and steel workers to continue their efforts and climb the peak again. "
The Blue Book pointed out that at present, China is in a critical period of moving towards a strong steel country. The steel industry should be in the forefront of the times. It objectively requires the majority of steel enterprises to play a leading and exemplary role in actively fulfilling their social responsibilities. 2022 is a key year for the iron and steel industry to implement the requirements of high-quality development opinions. Strengthening policy oriented responsibility implementation is an important part of the iron and steel industry's social responsibility practice. The first is to ensure the stable operation of the industry, the second is to vigorously promote scientific and technological innovation, the third is to steadily implement the "double carbon" goal, and the fourth is to gather strength to give back to the society.
He Wenbo believes that the iron and steel industry has fully fulfilled its responsibilities as a pillar industry of the national economy and made important contributions to the sustainable and healthy development of the national economy; Second, earnestly implement the concept of green development and actively implement the national goal of "double carbon". At present, 38 iron and steel enterprises have taken the lead in completing the publicity of ultra-low emission transformation in the whole process, 24 iron and steel enterprises have completed the publicity of partial ultra-low emission transformation, 94 iron and steel production enterprises have entered the list of green steel plants of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, established the Low Carbon Work Promotion Committee of the iron and steel industry, and released the Carbon Neutralization Vision and Low Carbon Technology Roadmap of the iron and steel industry; Third, always attach great importance to the harmonious development of enterprises and society. Iron and steel enterprises always adhere to sharing the development achievements with the society, reflecting the responsibility and responsibility of the important pillar industries of the country; Fourth, we attach great importance to win-win international cooperation and have contributed to the prosperity and development of the "the Belt and Road" countries.
Zhang Tao, former director of the Party Construction Bureau and the Working Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce of the State owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, said that the release of the Blue Book can effectively promote the formation of consensus on social responsibility in the industry, promote enterprise self-reliance, industry self-regulation, government support, and social co construction. It has important practical and long-term historical significance both for improving the overall development quality of the steel industry and for supporting and promoting the improvement of national governance.
He summarized the specific significance of this action with "six advantages": first, it is conducive to grasping the overall social contribution and development requirements of the industry; Second, it is conducive to service coordination to promote the modernization of national governance, highlight the social responsibility contribution of the industry, and achieve social governance coordination and national governance transformation with industry construction as an important focus; Third, it is conducive to the improvement of the whole social responsibility construction system; Fourth, it is conducive to improving the value of corporate social responsibility, leading enterprises to achieve higher quality and more sustainable development along the right direction of responsibility; Fifthly, it is conducive to highlighting the comparative significance of industry value contributions and enhancing the self-confidence of industry personnel in performing their duties; Sixth, it is conducive to expanding the service value field of industry organizations and comprehensively improving the working image of the Association.
The reporter of China Industry Daily learned that the preparation of the Blue Book was officially launched on July 6, 2022, and went through five stages, namely, project initiation, questionnaire survey, case collection, case review, and book completion. The Blue Book is divided into two parts: the general part and the case part. The general part systematically combs and analyzes the requirements for the form of social responsibility in the iron and steel industry, the progress of practice, and the management and exploration of social responsibility in the iron and steel industry, and clarifies the direction and focus of the iron and steel enterprises in the future; The case part includes excellent cases of 20 iron and steel enterprises, providing valuable experience for the iron and steel industry and enterprises to explore and deepen their social responsibility.