Focusing on the corporate and governmental social responsibility, this department analyzes the process of decision-making and administration, and discusses the two-way relationship of social construction and public governance. Its studies include several significant structural relations, including the central and the local, the urban and the rural, as well as labor and capital, and the policy of public services.
This department provides services of Researching, consulting, training and rating of social responsibility for governments, companies, and NGOs. It releases the Annual Report of Chinese Governmental Social Responsibility, and publishes the Yearbook of Chinese Corporate Social Responsibility.