THE CONSUMERS' COUNCIL 1918–1921

A Consumers' Council was established in the closing months of the Great War. Its work seems to have been overlooked, but it was an important body with achievements to its credit and a notable membership. The Council deserves a new look in the decade when a new National Consumer Council has been created.     

Regulations on Foreign Exchange Svstem of the People's Republic of China

Issued in the Decree No.193 of the State Council on January 29,1996,amended in accordance with the Decision of the State Council to Revise the Regulations on Foreign Exchange System of the People's Republic of China on January 14,1997,and revised and passed in the 20th executive meeting of the State Council on August 1,2008.     

10 years experience of the german council of economic experts

Ten years ago, in August 1963, the Federal Republic of Germany set up a Council of Experts on Economic Development. The author — a former member of the Council — makes a resumé of the ten years’ experience and the problems connected with the Council.     

Book Notes

The Anglo-American Council on Productivity is the best-known body created as part of the Attlee Government's productivity drive. The (unavoidably impessionistic) evidence suggests that the impact of this body was rather limited. This article is concerned with the reasons for this failure. The effects of the AACP depended crucially on the role of the FBI, the main employer body represented on the Council. The FBI's attitude to the AACP was partly shaped by the rather uncongenial message of many of the Council reports which followed the visits of productivity teams to the USA—a message which emphasised that management, not workers, were commonly a fault in Britain's poor productivity performance. More broadly the FBI's attitude to the AACP was defensive, embracing it as a way of keeping government 'off their backs' rather than a positive enthusiasm for increased productivity. Generally British employers were enjoying high profits from a sellers' market, and saw little need to respond to a government which in any event found it difficult to find a clear focus for its productivity campaign.     

The 6th China-ASEAN Business Council Meeting Held

On February 29th.the 6th China.ASEAN Business Council meeting was held in Beijing.Some 50 deputies attended the meeting,including top officialsCCPITVPYuPing andthe president of the ASEAN Chamber of Commerce and Industry,as well as business and industrial representatives from Thailand,Myanmar,the Philippines and Singapore.Also present at the meeting were representatives from the Secretariat in China of the China-ASEAN Business Council,the Guangxi Branch of the CCPIT,as well as industrial branches and media.     

Metallurgy

Metallurgical Council of China Council for the Promotion of International Trade(MC-CCPIT)is an organization engaged in promoting foreign trade and economic cooperation for Chinese metallurgical industry.     

COOPERATION ＆ INNOVATION FOR A BETTER TOMORROW

On March 29, Sweden-China Business Cooperation and Innovation Forum, jointly organized by CCPIT, Swedish Trade Council and Sweden-China Trade Council, was held in the city hall of Stockholm in Sweden. More than 500 Chinese and Swedish business representatives attended this forum, mainly from the sector of automobile, communication, environmental protection, energy and medicine etc, which are the key cooperation fields between China and Sweden. Xi Jinping, Vice President of China, Olofsson, Vice Premier of Sweden,     

The Sine-Egyptian Joint Business Council Business Forum Held

On December 25, Chairman Wan Jifei led the Chinese business delegation attending the Sino-Egyptian Joint Business Council Business Forum co-hosted by the CCPIT and the Sino-Egyptian Business Council in Cairo, Egypt. Chinese vice Premier Li Keqiang who was on a visit to Egypt attended the forum and addressed the opening ceremony.     

Textile

Light industry in China,as an important part of national economy,is mainly referred to consumer goods industry. After three decades＇ rapid economic growth, China has grown into a country of abundant light industry production,supplying inexpensive and diversified light industry goods of high quality. In 2007, scaled enterprises in light industry have accomplished the output value to approximately RMB 7604.1 billion and the export value to USS270.3 billion.     

Electric Power

Metallurgical Council of China Council for the Promotion of International Trade （MC-CCPIT）is an organization engaged in promoting foreign trade and economic cooperation for Chinese metallurgical industry.Approved by theChinese government, MC-CCPIT has the authority to organize domestic and overseas exhibitions. Acting as a window of China＇s steel industry, MC-CCPIT conforms to national policies, regulations and laws, offers services to enterprises based on the grass roots, and makes full use of its own advantages to promote all forms of economic and trade co-operations and technical exchanges. The main business scope covers developing and cultivating world famous conference and exhibition projects, censoring and reporting groups to go abroad,     

Supply and Marketing Cooperatives

China Supply and Marketing Cooperatives Council of CCPIT was established in March 1996. It is an institution under direct leadership of China Supply and Marketing Cooperatives and at the same time a branch of China Council for Promotion of International Trade, with its major task to promoting and facilitating export-oriented economic trade and technological cooperation of the national supply and marketing cooperative system.     

Disbanding an Effective System for Self Regulation of Advertising: Beyond the Media Council of Australia

This paper analyses the role of government, advertisers, advertising agents, and the industry complaints body in unravelling what was once an effective self regulatory system for advertisements. It outlines the connection between the system for the accreditation of advertising agents and the system of fuzzy Codes of Practice rules for the content of advertisements that regulated Australian advertising until the end of 1996. It shows how a revamped competition policy, government review, aggrieved advertisers and an entrenched Advertising Standards Council contributed to the demise of the Media Council system of self regulated advertising. The paper describes the new self regulatory system that has been put in place and analyses both the old Media Council Code of Practice rules and the rules of the new Advertiser Code of Ethics.     

Ethics and the Sports Business

Action needs to be taken on the ethical issues raised by the commercialising of sport if its integrity is to be maintained and its ethical base is not to be eroded further. The author has worked as an independent consultant in the leisure sector for a number of years and has recently joined the Research Unit of Britain's Sports Council. The views expressed by her in this article are not necessarily those held by the Sports Council.     

The Common Agricultural Policy after 2013

In October 2011 the European Commission presented a set of legal proposals designed to make the Common Agricultural Policy more effective. Pending a debate in the European Parliament and the Council, approval is expected by the end of 2013. This Forum aims to identify the proposals?? shortcomings and to offer suggestions for improvement which the Parliament and Council can work to implement. The authors pay particular attention to the future of direct payments, CAP greening and rural development, as well as to the change in the decision-making rules which grants the Parliament more authority over the process.     

Consumer Network Wales

The Welsh Consumer Council launched its online interactive consumer network in July 2001 with the aim of linking up individual consumers across the country, stimulating discussion and debate on consumer issues and strengthening the voice of consumers in Wales. By October 2002, the network had recruited 300 members. The Council aims to reach a membership of 1000 by 2004. As well as individual consumers, the network has recruited 34 voluntary and community organisations that are committed to working with the Council to ensure that disadvantaged consumers without home Internet access can participate in the network At the heart of the network is a bilingual discussion area within the Council's one‐stop consumer information website where members can post their views, comments and observations on any consumer issue that concerns them. Over the past year, lively discussions have developed on subjects as diverse as IT and electronic communications, customer call centres, recycling, money‐making schemes and energy saving in the home. Early in 2002, the network began to run regular online surveys on topical consumer issues. The first survey asked about members’ experiences of returning goods and their knowledge of consumer rights. The second asked about members’ attitudes to recycling and reducing waste. Both surveys received a high level of response and provided valuable and up to date information on the experiences and views of consumers from all parts of Wales on these important issues. The continuing expansion of the consumer network is central to the Council work in helping to foster a consumer movement in Wales which is informed, responsible, demanding and assertive.     

On a Reformed Stability and Growth Pact

In March 2005, the Council of Economics and Finance Ministers (Ecofin) presented its own suggestions for a possible Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) reform in a Report to the European Council. The Council Report divides its proposals into three parts, namely improving governance, strengthening the preventive arm and improving the implementation of the Excessive Deficit Procedure (EDP). The present paper contains a critical analysis of the ideas contained in the Report, accompanied by comparisons of the suggestions with earlier proposals for reform in the literature and the Commission Communication of September 2004.

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*Professor of European Financial Economics and Jean Monnet Professor of European Financial and Monetary Integration, CentER, Tilburg University, The Netherlands; Research Fellow, CEPR, London, UK; Member of the Panel of Experts of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament to which the article was first presented as a Briefing Paper in May 2005.     

供应链一体化时代的物流管理

本文认为,2005年初美国物流管理协会正式更名为供应链管理协会,这不仅意味着协会的服务对象和领域的扩展,而且从物流的角度看,标志着物流管理进入到供应链一体化时代,从中可以看出物流管理发展的脉络。文章提出,企业物流管理水平和发展阶段是与经济发展程度和市场环境紧密联系在一起的,随着企业经营环境的变化,企业参与世界经济分工程度的加深,物流管理必将朝着供应链一体化的方向发展。     

International briefing 7: Training and development in Singapore

Singapore’s only resource is its people. It has made HRD as a key strategy for economic development since its inception. Its economic success story is entwined with the training and development of its workforce. A national manpower development infrastructure has been put in place to facilitate training and lifelong learning of its people for the twenty‐first century under a master plan called Manpower 21. Continuous training and skills development has been possible through close cooperation between the state, employers and the unions through unique working relationships between several policy‐making institutions, such as the National Manpower Council and the National Wages Council.     

Survey on Current Conditions of and Intention for Outbound Investment by Chinese Enterprises （Part Ⅱ）

Executive Summary
After two preliminary trials in 2005 and 2006, China Council for the Promotion of International Trade （CCPIT） conducted the ＂Survey on Current Conditions of and Intention for Outbound Investment by Chinese Enterprises＂ from December of 2008 to February of 2009. We standardized the samples and enlarged the scale to present an in-depth landscape of the current conditions of and intention for outbound investment by Chinese enterprises as China adopts the ＂Going Global＂ strategy to encourage outbound investment, and the development of outbound investment by comparing the results of this survey and the previous two surveys.     

“First”s in 30 Years

The establishment of first batch of SEZs On July 15,1979,CCPCC and the Sate Council decided to establish tentative special zones in Shenzhen,Zhuhai,Shantou,and Xiamen.On May 16,1980,CCPCC and the Sate Council ratified"Guangdong and