Shanghai Association of Enterprises not do next year, "second government" and the party and government organs "four separate"

Enterprises Association can not act as a "second government" and "separating government from social" are inevitable. With immediate effect, business associations and government organs, institutions, finance and assets of the "four separate" soon in the city started. Preganglionic from the city's Civil Affairs Bureau was informed that before the end of June next year, the city set up by business associations registered according to law to basically achieve the "political society separated", "small government, big society" development pattern will continue to progress.



At present, registered in 2975 the city social groups, business associations, up to 730, including industry associations, chambers of commerce, economics associations, professional associations; of these, over 214 trade associations, with a membership of nearly 45000 units, involving industrial manufacturing, commercial distribution, modern services, construction, transportation and other fields.

In 2002, the city of the Eleventh People's Congress promulgated the "Shanghai Industry Association to promote the development of rule", which is China's first trade association to promote the development of local regulations. In recent years, the city cope with domestic and international industry associations according to trade disputes, establish anti-dumping early warning mechanism to coordinate the interests of market players. Among them, Shanghai furniture industry association for the U.S. furniture industry on Chinese furniture worth one billion U.S. dollars to implement the anti-dumping investigation and study the formation of special reports organizations directly involved in responding to and reducing the loss of the furniture industry in Shanghai. In addition, the response occurs more than 100 fraudulent use of the domestic "Shanghai" name of the marketing of fake and inferior imitation of the manufacturers of pesticides, fertilizer, pesticide industry association with the Shanghai municipal industrial and commercial sectors operations, announced the list of 26 illegal enterprises have effectively cracked down on counterfeiting and forgery.

"Government-affiliated" to "Corporate Alliance"

Due to historical reasons, including industry associations, including business associations "government-run" flatted, another form of "two government" become the department's "pocketbook" and "dependent institutions." Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau of nearly 400 survey of business associations, the civil service part-time, the government will be co-located, lack of independence of financial assets such phenomena as lack of clarity exists in varying degrees, affected the image of the government and the market environment.

In 2002, the city began a pilot "political society separated." After the reform and adjustment, a group of government officials will no longer act as the leadership of the Association, the Association secretariat is no longer the work of agencies and government departments co-located, the association initially established a "voluntary membership, self-conduct of business, self-financing," the mechanism of self-organized, realized from the "government-affiliated" to "corporate alliance" a major change.

Today, the "separation of government agency" will explore and establish a win-win cooperation between the Government and business associations of the long-term mechanism to support business associations to improve their internal management mechanism, enhance the capacity and will be self-organized social credibility. (Reporter-Ping Yao special correspondent Zhang Wenfeng)