Introduction

Established spontaneously by Chongqing entrepreneurs in Zhejiang on January 19th, 2011, Chongqing Chamber of Commerce of Zhejiang as a non-governmental organization with independent legal entity status, was registered at Civil Organization Administration of Provincial Department of Civil Affairs of Zhejiang, directed both by Federation of Industry and Commerce of Zhejiang and Federation of Industry and Commerce of Chongqing, acquires work guidance from Zhejiang Liaison Agency of Municipal Office of the People’s Government of Chongqing in Shanghai (East China Area).

Since founding, Chongqing Chamber of Commerce of Zhejiang have attached great attention on improving its members’ overall qualities and instilling their core value as well as preserving organizations positive image, all along establishing firmly the sense of unity, the sense of dedication, sense of responsibility, vision and consciousness of democracy. Within the Chamber of Commerce, mechanism for regular meetings and rules of procedures such as the Members General Assembly, Presidential Office, Board of Supervisors and the Staff Association have been established. Inner departments like Finance Committee, Membership Development Committee, Propaganda and Training Committee, Board of Investment, Legal Committee, Committee of Public Liaison and Secretariat also have been instituted. With years of practice, The chamber has proven that it has embarked on the track of institutionalization, normalization and routinization.

Chongqing Chamber of Commerce of Zhejiang adheres to the chamber tenet of “Joint Seeking, Joint Creating, Joint Winning and Joint Sharing” and the guideline of “Members Establishing Chamber, Service Promoting Chamber, Commerce Nourishing Chamber and Development Strengthening Chamber”. The chamber is a platform which abides by national Constitution, laws, regulations, policies, social morality as well as professional ethics, advocates family virtues and is set up on the basis of mutual connection, mutual assistance, mutual communication and joint development of businessmen from Sichuan and Chongqing and start up their own business in Zhejiang. This platform gives full play to and deeply excavates advantages and potential of Sichuan and Chongqing people in Zhejiang, reflects members’ appeals and wishes, protect members’ legal rights and always undertakes serving members as the mission and responsibility of the chamber. The chamber provided services to the construction of chambers in cities, districts and counties in Ningbo, Huzhou, Yiwu, Yueqing, Taizhou and so on; offered legal consultation, helped members solve economic disputer, drew up and revised contracts for more than 100 times; assisted member units with solving over 100 project approval, engineering settlement, personnel recruitment and other affairs; organized investigation and seeking for investment opportunities for dozens of time and successfully discovered China Southwest City, a market-oriented urban complex project with a total investment of 5 billion yuan. Besides, the chamber also organized businessmen in Zhejiang and Chongqing businessmen in Zhejiang to go to Chongqing to invest and investigate. It also helped cities, districts and counties of Chongqing to hold various investment promotion and project introduction conferences in Hangzhou, Wenzhou, Ningbo and other places, successively attracting over 10 billion yuan to Chongqing, which plays the role of bridge and bond between the economic cooperation and cultural communication between Zhejiang and Chongqing and makes positive contributions to the scientific development of economy in Zhejiang and Chongqing.

The Chamber of Commerce has been actively organized its members to participate in various social welfare activities and make donations for helping the disabled, supporting education and helping the poor and groups in poverty. Since 2011, the Chamber of Commerce has spent more than 10 million yuan such as funding the education and living expenses for 30 independent students in Wushan County, Chongqing, rescuing the little girl Luo Xinjue with registered residence of Jiangjin Chongqing who goes to Ningbo with his father and gets burned because of gas explosion, supporting the education and living expenses from elementary school to university of 40 poor left-behind children in Tongnan County of Chongqing, offering love for the accident of Li Linyang, executive vice president of Chongqing Chamber of Commerce of Ningbo, floods in Yunyang County of Chongqing, accident in Yancheng of Jiangsu, supporting the victims of Chongqing bombing incident going to Japan for claims and others. The Chamber of Commerce set up Chongqing Business in Zhejiang, Zhe-Yu Business periodical and website, publishes more than 1,000 articles on major media and sites in Zhejiang. Since June 2014, the QQ public number has been set up, which deliver messages of the Chamber of Commerce for the Party and Government, all sectors of the community and fellow members, expand the influence and visibility and establish the good image of the Chamber of Commerce.

Chongqing Chamber of Commerce of Zhejiang conscientiously implements the requirement of “To Advocate Policies, To Provide Services, To Reflect Petitions, To Safeguard Interests, To Strength Self-discipline” demanded in “Opinions on strengthening and improving the work of the Federation of Industry and Commerce under New Situation” issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council in September 2010. In combination with the document spirit of the No.3 Document of 2014 issued by the General Office of CPC Zhejiang Provincial Committee and the Regulations on Non-local Chamber of Commerce (ZMM【2015】No.249 — piloting) issued by Zhejiang Provincial Civil Affairs Department, the chamber dedicated to innovation, inherited the Chongqing Business Spirit of “Patriotic, Unremittent, Righteous, Enterprising, Eclectic and Magnanimous”, strive hard to gain experiences, work solidly to promote businesses, upgrade oneself to serve the members and make contributions to the society. The chamber committed itself into a organization of learning, service, normal standard and development in order to make positive contributions to the socioeconomic development of both Zhejiang and Chongqing. as well as to give wisdom and power to achieve “the Great Dream of China”!