OBJECTIVE:To enhance pharmaceutical enterprises' awareness on social responsibility and facilitate their understanding of their social responsibility.METHODS:The motivations for pharmaceutical enterprises to bear social responsibility and their social responsibility at different levels were analyzed by combining theory with practice.RESULTS & CONCLUSIONS:The motivations for pharmaceutical enterprises to bear social responsibility arise from both interior and exterior factors.In order to facilitate the understanding of pharmaceutical enterprises at different stages of development about their social responsibility and achieve a long-term development by realistically assuming their responsibility meanwhile promoting social welfare,it is advisable to divided their social responsibility into 3 levels:basic level,medial level and high level.