Adopting multiple stakeholder orientation as measurement for CSR and using the data of publicly listed Chinese firms from 2011-16, we examine how firms allocate attention to the five key stakeholders’ interests under potential resource constraints across different ownership types. Main results suggest that privately owned firms are more likely to prioritize the societal-orientation, compared to state-owned and foreign-invested firms; foreign-invested firms are more likely to attend to investor-orientation, consumer-orientation and environment-orientation, compared to the other two types. Weak difference is detected in employee-orientations across the three types of firms, which may be due to a general attention to employee benefits. In the context of potential conflicting interests, results suggest that different types of ownership lead the firm to make different choices in trading off different stakeholder interests, with foreign-invested firms trading off between internal stakeholder interests and external stakeholder interests, privately owned firms trading off investor and employee interests for customer interests, and all firms trading off customer interests with environment interests.