Abstract: Abstract: Based on the statistic data of 59 listed companies in medical and pharmacy industry from 2003 to 2007, the relationship between corporate social responsibility and corporate competitiveness is investigated through the empirical methods. The results show that in short term, the more social responsibilities a corporate takes on, the more competitive it would be; while considering the previous period, the better corporate social responsibility performance in the previous period would lead to greater competitiveness in the coming years, especially the corporate social responsibility performance in latest three years has greater influence on the competitiveness. At the same time, according to the research on the control variables, it is found out that the larger a company size has, the better corporate social responsibility performance it would conduct; and that state-owned enterprises have better corporate social responsibility performance than that of non-state-owned companies. However, there is no confirmed conclusion about that the company’s operation years have influence on the resposibility performance.

Key words: corporate social responsibility, competitiveness, shareholder, factor analysis, regression analysis