Trade associations mainly provide guidance, liaison, coordination, consultation and services for the industry, and play a role as a bridge and link between enterprises and government departments. Study the development and changes of the industry, master the basic situation and data of the industry, reflect the demands and wishes of enterprises to the government, and formulate relevant industry standards for research.
Profitability mainly depends on collecting membership fees, organizing business trips, organizing relevant training, and government subsidies.
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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.
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Communication: as a bridge between the government and enterprises, convey the requirements of enterprises to the government, and assist the government in formulating and implementing industry development plans, industrial policies, administrative regulations and related laws.
Coordination: formulate and implement laws and standards, and coordinate business activities among enterprises in this industry.
Supervision: Strictly supervise the quality of products and services, means of competition and management methods of the industry, safeguard the reputation of the industry, encourage fair competition and crack down on violations of laws and regulations.
Justice: entrusted by the government, it conducts qualification examination and issues licenses, such as market access qualification certification, and issues certificates of origin, quality inspection certificates, production licenses, import and export licenses, etc.
Statistics: Statistics, analysis and publication of the results of the basic situation of the industry.
Research: Make a basic investigation on the development of domestic and foreign domestic housekeeping industry, study the problems faced by this industry, make suggestions, and publish publications for the reference of enterprises and governments.
Services in a narrow sense: such as information services, education and training services, consulting services, holding exhibitions, organizing meetings, etc.
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non-governmental organization (NGO)
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 difference lies in:
1. It was formed voluntarily by relevant organizations, not by government orders.
2. Its organization is autonomous and self-managed, generally not directly controlled by the government, but sometimes it is also supervised by the government.
3. Its staff does not belong to the national civil service series.
4. The main source of funds is not the national financial allocation.