Since the latest several decades, the international corporations have played an important role in the world economic system and their activities lead to important effects and function to the global economic development. The powerful economic abilities and the pursuit of high profit in the worldwide will create many collapses between the subsidiaries of the international corporation and the host company; the subsidiaries and the head companies; host country and the head country. The activities of such international corporation will bring in adverse to the related countries even to the international society which leads to the discussion of the social responsibilities of the multinational corporations.
As a special organization, multinational corporations undertake special social responsibilities in the host country, especially in developing host countries like China. The social responsibilities of multinational corporations would grow largely if a uniformed standard is set up and effective supervision is exercised.
This thesis is mainly focus on the content of the social responsibilities in the host countries, the reasons of undertaking the social responsibilities and the analyses of the situation of the multinational corporations in China.
【Key Words】 multinational corporation ；social responsibilities；investing in China,；policy,；standard ；performance
