On the 50th anniversary of the China Council for the Promotion of
International Trade (
CCPIT),
officials pledged to increase efforts to provide better services.
CCPIT will take advantage of its extensive foreign trade channels
and relations and will enhance its contacts and collaborations with
international organizations. "We aim to conduct all-round,
multi-level and focal trade promotion activities, as well as
exchanges with non-governmental organizations," said CCPIT Chairman
Yu Xiaosong. CCPIT was set up in May 1952.
He
said CCPIT will continue to extend the scope of its services to
improve the quality of its information, exhibitions, consulting,
legal and publicity services and to help companies, especially
small and medium-sized enterprises, to compete on the international
market.
The chairman also said CCPIT will also play a faithful part in the
examination and approval of organizing exhibitions abroad and
hosting international exhibitions at home, improving the quality of
international exhibitions and safeguarding the order of the
exhibition industry.
China has hosted 645 international exhibitions from 1949 to 1999
and received 174,000 visits from overseas visitors, according to
CCPIT statistics.
The China
Center for International Exhibition, CCPIT's exhibition arm,
said it is actively preparing to build a new exhibition hall to
accommodate the increasing demand for exhibitions.
CCPIT is conducting intensive research on the influence of China's
entry into the World Trade Organization on domestic industries, and
hopes to help companies establish development strategies and
personnel and communication training programs with the Chinese
Government, said Yu.
The organization is also proposing to set up a co-ordination
mechanism with the chambers of commerce and industrial associations
to maintain a macro control over pricing, to organize companies to
respond to overseas anti-dumping and anti-subsidy charges and
promote fair trade and orderly market competition.
CCPIT, also the China Chamber of International Commerce, is holding
its fourth plenary meeting in Beijing today.
(China
Daily May 15, 2002)