Research of Financing Opportunities from the ESG Policy for Chinese Enterprises

In the 1960s and 1970s, with the rise of human rights movements in Western countries, public environmental movements, and anti-apartheid movements, the asset management industry began to produce corresponding investment concepts; that is, it began to emphasize labor rights, racial and gender equality, business ethics, environmental protection, and other issues in investment choices. In the 1990s, socially responsible investment began to shift from the moral level to the investment strategy level. In the investment decision, the ESG performance of the company was comprehensively considered, and the impact of the ESG investment strategy on investment risk and investment return was measured. This marks the formation of the ESG investment philosophy. In the 21st century, the ESG investment concept has been further developed and promoted. The UN Principles for Responsible Investment (UN-PRI) aims to make ESG an important part of its global investment strategy. This initiative has made environmental, social, and governance factors important indicators of sustainable development. This research is based on the global ESG-developing environment. This research discussed why Chinese enterprises can get a good financing opportunity by using ESG policy as an enterprise development strategy. This research finds out the situation of ESG in the world and what made Chinese enterprises get a good financing opportunity by using literature research and data analysis. the scale of Chinese ESG will gradually catch up with the world in the future. Chinese enterprises can get better opportunities to go abroad, further achieve better development, and obtain better ESG performance and social capital. This paper provides feasible suggestions for the realization of the strategic development of Chinese enterprises to keep pace with the times.