Chinese mining FDI in Africa and compliance with ESG goals

The mining industry has always been a field of special concern. With China's opening to the outside world faster and faster, China's foreign direct investment in Africa has increased in recent years, but the mining industry generally contacts the most vulnerable countries and people.Theref...

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Main Author: YAN, QING
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2022
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/70050/
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description The mining industry has always been a field of special concern. With China's opening to the outside world faster and faster, China's foreign direct investment in Africa has increased in recent years, but the mining industry generally contacts the most vulnerable countries and people.Therefore, China's mining investment in Africa has a great negative impact on the local countries. ESG is now a behavioral standard for measuring corporate sustainability. This paper will analyze the ESG aspects of Chinese mining companies to find the reasons why Chinese mining companies are not doing so well and give solutions to improve ESG. This paper reviews the current Outward FDI, Chinese FDI motives, why companies comply with ESG, what ESG means for mining and empirical literature on Chinese mining companies in Africa. To find the differences, I selected three Chinese mining companies, and collect all the secondary information about the company to form a case analysis. Through comparative case analysis, we found the reasons why mining companies are not doing well in terms of environment, society and governance: insufficient supervision, weak legality, and lack of respect for local communities. Lack of community communication and low transparency. Finally, the corresponding solution is given.
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spelling nottingham-700502023-06-21T14:29:08Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/70050/ Chinese mining FDI in Africa and compliance with ESG goals YAN, QING The mining industry has always been a field of special concern. With China's opening to the outside world faster and faster, China's foreign direct investment in Africa has increased in recent years, but the mining industry generally contacts the most vulnerable countries and people.Therefore, China's mining investment in Africa has a great negative impact on the local countries. ESG is now a behavioral standard for measuring corporate sustainability. This paper will analyze the ESG aspects of Chinese mining companies to find the reasons why Chinese mining companies are not doing so well and give solutions to improve ESG. This paper reviews the current Outward FDI, Chinese FDI motives, why companies comply with ESG, what ESG means for mining and empirical literature on Chinese mining companies in Africa. To find the differences, I selected three Chinese mining companies, and collect all the secondary information about the company to form a case analysis. Through comparative case analysis, we found the reasons why mining companies are not doing well in terms of environment, society and governance: insufficient supervision, weak legality, and lack of respect for local communities. Lack of community communication and low transparency. Finally, the corresponding solution is given. 2022-09-05 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/70050/1/20244302_BUSI4027_2021_22.pdf YAN, QING (2022) Chinese mining FDI in Africa and compliance with ESG goals. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)] Key words: Foreign Direct investment China Africa mining ESG.
spellingShingle Key words: Foreign Direct investment
China
Africa
mining
ESG.
YAN, QING
Chinese mining FDI in Africa and compliance with ESG goals
title Chinese mining FDI in Africa and compliance with ESG goals
title_full Chinese mining FDI in Africa and compliance with ESG goals
title_fullStr Chinese mining FDI in Africa and compliance with ESG goals
title_full_unstemmed Chinese mining FDI in Africa and compliance with ESG goals
title_short Chinese mining FDI in Africa and compliance with ESG goals
title_sort chinese mining fdi in africa and compliance with esg goals
topic Key words: Foreign Direct investment
China
Africa
mining
ESG.
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/70050/