The goal of Shanghai Volkswagen's sustainable development is to achieve the best combination of enterprise environmental management, product environmental performance and market environmental requirements. Since the establishment of the factory, Shanghai Volkswagen has taken environmental protection as the basic policy, followed the 22 environmental protection standards formulated by Audi ag in the world, combined with the characteristics of its own products and production processes, and worked closely with partners including suppliers and distributors to explore and summarize the effective "green code of conduct" suitable for itself. The standard covers the general principles of minimizing industrial land, prohibiting the use of substances harmful to health, noise control, water resources circulation, energy conservation, waste management and so on. And the environmental protection control of special technologies and processes in automobile production, involving many details such as emission control of harmful substances and use control of specific components. Through the implementation of environmental protection standards, Shanghai Volkswagen has effectively realized "green production" that develops harmoniously with the environment and achieved a win-win situation of economy and ecology. In 2003, Shanghai Volkswagen No.3 Factory was awarded the "National Top 100 Environmental Protection Project" by the State Environmental Protection Administration. In 2006, Shanghai Volkswagen won the honor of "caring and environmental protection enterprise" again.
In the process of development, Shanghai Volkswagen has always participated in social affairs with the concept of repaying society and benefiting society. Over the past 20 years, Shanghai Volkswagen has donated about 398 million yuan, involving science, education, culture, health and various social welfare undertakings.