With the constant deepening of COSCO's sustainable development and the harmonious enterprise, COSCO pays attention to such concepts as "Human orientation" and òTalents empowers enterpriseó in terms of the human rights. The group respects the knowing rights, participation rights and supervision rights of employees, stresses that "Being COSCO Persons After Entering COSCO", respects and understands employees, relies on employees to seek development, shares development achievements with employees and enable the all-round development of employees. Focusing on building and perfecting the modern enterprise system, COSCO attaches importance to strengthening the enterprise's internal and external social reliability to improve the satisfaction and the happiness of employees and stakeholders.

COSCO advocates the harmoniousness between enterprises and employees and among employees, respecting the differences of employees in gender, age, disease, race and religion, and ensuring non-discriminated systems and practices by strictly implementing systems and conducting supervision.

COSCO provides ordinary employees with equal occupation development opportunities and persists in the employment principle of openness, equality, competition and selection of best to improve the open competition systems and make eligible employees be promoted to higher positions through competition, thus realizing the internal human resources optimization and improving the employees' enthusiasm. The competition-for-post system is being propelled for leaders of COSCO's 2nd-tier subsidiaries and officials of COSCO Group with chief or deputy positions. In the past three years, COSCO implemented the competition-for-post system in three second-tier subsidiaries and 12 leader positions in 5 departments of COSCO Group. Personnel adjustments were made to party leaders of 27 subsidiaries and the department heads of COSCO with 261 persons involved.

Currently, COSCO has over 50,000 migrant workers, most of whom are in ship-building and ship-repairing factories mainly by outsourcing way; In the shipping industry there are over 7,000 migrant workers by labor dispatching.

COSCO has been attaching great importance to the management over migrant workers. Based on the Labor Contract Law of China and COSCO's Administrative Measures for Seamen in Bases and the regulations of the auxiliary documents, COSCO will further revise and improve the rules and regulations on the migrant worker management to settle the rights and interest of migrant workers. COSCO takes caring for migrant workers as an important part to perform the social reliability, helping the country to solve the òThree rural problemsó (agriculture, countryside and farmer). According to the Several Opinions of State Council on Solving Problems to Migrant Workers, COSCO pays attention to regulate the management over outsourced migrant workers in the ship-building and ship-repairing industry and constantly strengthens and improves the rights and interests of migrant workers in occupational health, sanitary interest, work-related insurance and living conditions, etc. COSCO holds the knowledge competition activities for migrant workers and opens schools for migrant workers to improve work skills and care for their life. The group builds dorms for migrant workers, establishes labor unions for migrant workers and provides them with necessary helps and services with the funds of the labor union.

COSCO Shipyard sets up the "Sub-contractor" special fund, supervising and managing whether the subcontractors' construction teams pay salary to migrant workers by month or by contract. In recent years, COSCO Shipyard each year arranges over RMB10 million as the seasonable salary subsidy, skill training, food subsidy, travel expense subsidy and rewards. Every year the company organizes the occupation diseases examination, with sunstroke prevention and temperature reduction fees available in summer and warming subsidies available in winter. In 2006, COSCO Shipyard built òMigrant Worker Dormó in such places as Dalian and Zhoushan, with over 9,000 migrant workers living in large and clear dorms.
In Aug. 2006, CCTV shot a large feature program of "Touch COSCO Shipyard" in COSCO Shipyard.

COSCO respects and protect human rights of seamen, especially the rights in such aspects as health & safety, freedom, salary and benefits. While providing seamen with training regulated by laws, COSCO also establishes the education and training bases for seamen according to the characteristics of seamen' engagement and provides the location for off seamen to acquire new knowledge and improve the nautical abilities required by the positions, thus updating their knowledge and improving their working skills.

The company set up rest rooms and reading rooms for seamen to wait for ships and arranged some of their family members to be on board with them. The company arranges some seamen and their family members for relaxation and recuperation each year, caring the physical and psychological health of seamen.

Considering the limitation of seamen's working location, the company edited and made the disk of knowledge for nautical nutrition and health, delivering the propagandistic healthy materials to the ships to improve the health knowledge of seamen.

COSCO fully secures the benefits for seamen, paying salary and providing benefits on time in full amount to seamen. The company established 270 nautical family liaison stations to help nautical families with difficulties to solve the troubles back at home of seamen. With 550 members of families as voluntary service staff, these nautical family liaison stations help nautical families from 120 counties of 17 provinces keep in touch with each other, providing activity spots for enhancing the contact among the family members of the employees and enriching their amateur lives and forming a sound nautical family network.