Liu Gang, deputy director of SIP Publicity Department, was lately invited to attend 2016 Social Impact Conference held in South Korea. Centering around the theme "From Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals", over 500 attendees discussed how Asian countries should persist in sustainable development ideas and promote the balanced development of economy, society and environment under the background of globalization.

Georg Kell, former executive director of the UN Global Compact, David Galipeau, director of the UN Social Impact Fund, and Dhaval Patel, CEO of iMPOWER Humanity, made keynote speeches at the opening ceremony.

In the "Best Practice" session, representatives from Korea, Japan, China, ASEAN, etc. introduced their recommendable practices, and Liu Gang gave a presentation about the success of the construction of SIP Corporate Social Responsibility Association (CSRA) as an example of China's best practice.

Already the world's second largest economy, China is, however, seeing increasingly crying environmental and social issues come up along with economic development. Whether China can transform its economic growth mode is becoming a core task in its ensuing efforts to propel sustainable development. 

As one of the major representatives of China's endeavors to explore sustainable economic development, SIP is reputed as an important window to China's reform and opening up, and a successful model for Sino-foreign cooperation. It is furthermore an innovative project of corporate social responsibility and social impact.

In his presentation, Liu Gang said that SIP is an important cooperation project between Chinese and Singaporean governments. Since its inception in 1994, SIP has attracted over 5,000 transnational projects, including more than 150 Fortune 500 enterprises, and it has also introduced and fostered a large number of domestic enterprises with self-owned brands.

He said, "A social responsibility ecosphere, which runs with SIP-CSRA as its main position, member companies as its main body, and company staff, community residents and consumers as its stakeholders, has gradually taken shape."  

Aside from international exchanges, SIP has also taken the initiative to promote its experience of corporate social responsibility at School of Social Development and Public Policy of Beijing Normal University and other top Chinese universities in an effort to influence and inspire China's future business elite and management personnel.