The meeting granted honors to outstanding enterprises and executives who excel their peers in Corporate Social Responsibility for the first time in the province. 51 enterprises including Hiking Group, Laiwu Iron and Steel Group, Weichai Power and Sinopec Shandong Corporation etc. were titled as Corporate Social Responsibility Model Enterprises in Shandong Province and 51 executives including Zhang Jianhua, chairman of Hiking Group, were honored as Shandong Province Outstanding Operator in Corporate Social Responsibility.

　The honors are a full endorsement to the continuous practice of the corporate objective of Hiking Group “Pursuing of Excellence, Dedicating to the Society”. In the nine years’ time, the group persists in innovation of its structure, system, technology and products, sharpens its competitiveness and boosts rapid and sustainable development of the group through adjustment of the industrial structure and transformation of the development methods. The group always keeps in mind its corporate social responsibility while it pursues first class business achievements. Based upon the principle of legal and accountable business operation, the group pays tax strictly in accordance with the rules and it is No. 25 taxpayer in Qingdao in 2010 and one of the largest taxpayers in the private sector. Hiking Group attaches great importance to environment protection, insists on production safety and product safety, promotes clean production, and reduces pollution and emission and strengthen the environment protection awareness of its staff. And Hiking Group has acquired ISO14001:2004 environment management system certification and international “UKAS” environment management system certification in sequence.