What is a trade association?

Trade association refers to a social intermediary organization that serves, consults, communicates, supervises, is fair, self-disciplined and coordinated between the government, enterprises and commodity producers and operators.

Trade association is a kind of non-governmental organization, which does not belong to the series of government management institutions, but a bridge and link between the government and enterprises. Trade association belongs to the enterprise legal person stipulated in China's civil law, and it is a kind of non-governmental organizations and social groups in China, that is, internationally renowned non-governmental organizations (also known as NGOs), which are non-profit organizations.

20 17 The National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Finance and the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council jointly issued the Opinions on Further Standardizing the Charge Management of Trade Associations. 20 18 10 The relevant person in charge of the Social Organization Administration of the Ministry of Civil Affairs said that from the annual inspection of the first batch of national associations, 90% of the associations and chambers of commerce actively regulated the charging behavior.

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In the international market competition, in order to weaken the negative impact, according to international practical experience, industry organizations play an important coordinating role in protecting domestic industries and supporting domestic enterprises to enhance their international competitiveness.

Trade associations are independent of the government, which also determines that they are very different from government organizations in organizational forms, staffing, funding sources and so on.

The autonomy of self-organization and self-management of trade associations is the right that trade associations must enjoy if they can exist independently. Autonomy mainly includes the right to manage autonomous affairs, the right to organize personnel and the right to use funds.

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