论我国上市公司社会责任法律制度的完善

Companies’ social responsibilities have been officially written in the revision of PRC Corporation Law in 2005. Nevertheless, in practice, a number of companies have taken a negative attitude towards company social responsibility system. Being compared with ordinary companies, listed companies enjoy a stronger social publicity, which means they assume much more social responsibilities and are more typical. Therefore, it has great practical significance to study how to improve social responsibility system of listed companies, which consequently strengthens the ways of implementation in which listed companies can carry out their social responsibilities. It is believed in this thesis that there are two major aspects of specificity of social responsibility of listed companies. Firstly, it is more connected to public because its shares and bonds are publicly traded. Therefore, in terms of listed companies, to maintain the stability of capital market is also a part of their social responsibilities. Secondly, unlike ordinary companies whose social responsibilities are carried out for other interested parties other than shareholders, for listed companies, a large number of individual investors who focus on their financial interests are unconcerned about the operation, supervision and management of the listed companies. From this point, those individual investors are financial customers and also are objects of the listed companies’ social responsibilities. Lastly, it focuses on two aspects regarding improving the approaches of social responsibility system of listed companies in China in this thesis. On the one hand, from the perspective of substantive contents, to build and design the framework for social responsibilities of listed companies at legislative level to improve the companies’ governance structure; on the other hand, from the perspective of the external form, to strictly regulate the formats of disclosure of listed companies’ social responsibilities in order to ensure the effectiveness of disclosure of social responsibilities. Meanwhile, more listed companies are promoted to perform social responsibilities on their own initiative led by social responsibility index.