Abstract:Under the background of the dual carbon goals,it is of strategic significance for enterprises to practice ESG concepts and improve ESG performance for national green development goals.Anchoring on the imprinting theory,this paper takes the A-share listed companies in Shanghai and Shenzhen in China from 2012 to 2022 as a research sample,and discusses the impact of party member?CEOs on the performance of ESG responsibilities,the results show that:Party member?CEOs significantly promote the ESG implementation;Party organizations have a positive moderate effect on the performance of Party member?CEOs and ESG responsibilities through political and cognitive embeddedness;under the coercive institutional pressure, normative institutional pressure and mimetic institutional pressure,party member?CEOs are more willing to promote ESG responsibility performance,and this promotion in the companies with a high degree of embeddedness of party organizations is more significant;Mechanism analysis indicates that party member?CEOs play an indirect role in the ESG implementation through information disclosure channels;Heterogeneity analysis reveals that the improvement is more significant in state-owned and low-carbon enterprises;Further analysis reveals that party member?CEOs have improved the high-quality development level of enterprises by promoting ESG implementation,in both state-owned and non-state-owned enterprises, party member CEOs have significantly promoted the high-quality development of enterprises.This paper enriches the research on the effectiveness of party member?CEOs participating in corporate governance,and provides reference for improving corporate ESG performance and helping enterprises in green transformation,provides new evidence for the high-quality party building to lead and drive the high-quality development of enterprises.