In recent China, the corporate environmental pollution is an indisputable fact
nowadays. The environmental pollution has a variety of forms, such as water pollution,
air pollution, solid waste and so on. And the problem of pollution is originated from the
overall responsibility, including the government, corporate and the public. The
situation that is grossly inadequate of total resources and per capita resources, resource
consumption growing at an alarming rate, extensive growth phase of resource use
efficiency, high dependence on external resources, lower utilization of renewable
resources shows that China’s resource is difficult to support the continued growth of
traditional industrial civilization. Environmental pollution is firstly and essentially
corporate social responsibility issue. Investigation shows that the enterprise managers
have deviation understanding of CSR, the local enterprises do not have mature CSR
strategy and management system, and SMEs are lack of attention of environmental
protection; Secondly, the government has the responsibility vacuum in guiding
enterprises to take social responsibility. In the wrong guidance of pure pursuit of
economy interest by some local governments, the local protectionism becomes the
umbrella and shield of environmental violations. Lack of law regulation and
government failure to take environmental responsibility create convenience for the low
rate of energy utilization, poor electronic waste management; Thirdly, the public
participation in China is insufficient. City residents’ energy conservation behavior is
generally insufficient and rural residents’ awareness of environmental problems
severity is lower. Until recently the public has become an important pressure to
promote CER. Therefore, the responsibility awareness is urgently needed.
Keywords: Corporate environmental responsibility (CER), Corporate social
responsibility (CSR), Enterprises, Environmental pollution, Government, The
public.