Study On The Change Of Civil Chamber Of Commerce’s Social Governance Functions

This article, which lies on the case study of the Chao Zhou Chamber of Commerce of Hong Kong, mainly explores the development model and its social function of social governance of the Chao Zhou Chamber of Commerce of Hong Kong in three different periods through the investigation of its history and current status.Numerous specificities enable the social phenomena of Hong Kong possess unique research value in some domains, in which the folk chamber of Commerce must have its place undoubtedly. The folk chamber of commerce of Hong Kong has its unique features that with the dual characteristics of the guilds of the Mainland law systems and the English-American law systems, its unique function of social governance has played an positive and irreplaceable role in the social development of Hong Kong. However, the mainstream view of modern society for the prosperity and stability of Hong Kong comes down to the political system of "plus executive-led with the extensive consultative democracy", standardized legal system and the free trade system and other elements of government and the market system, even less from the social level such as the folk chambers of commerce and other intermediate organizations to deeply tap the elements of external 1 political system. The Chao Zhou Chamber of Commerce Hong Kong adhering to the belief of the development of compatriot friendship, promotion of culture and business, social services and initiation of education, it has become the core of the Chao Zhou people gathering in Hong Kong and the bridge of linking the contacts of Chao Zhou business organization around the world through the forge ahead in a pioneering spirit, until now it has been 90 years since its establishment in 1921.Today, as the oldest and most representative business groups in more than a million folks coming from Chao Zhou in Hong Kong, the Chao Zhou Chamber of Commerce of Hong Kong has become the third force which coexist with the government and enterprises in the framework of social governance in Hong Kong, it plays an important role in the maintenance of the market order and even the social normal operation. This article describes the extraordinary process of the Chao Zhou Chamber of Commerce of Hong Kong objectively which evolves from a businessman tribal of geographical nature to today’s industrial and commercial group of outstanding function of social governance in Hong Kong through retrospecting its changing and developing history on one hand, on the other hand, we take the Chao Zhou Chamber of Commerce of Hong Kong as a new perspective of observing the government and society, and attempts to reveal its law of development and transition of the function of social governance through examining the situation and characteristics of the variable elements such as legality of the existing, internal governance structure, social network and external institutional environment and so on. From the study of the history and current status of the research object, this paper argues that the development model of the Chao Zhou Chamber of Commerce of Hong Kong present the feature that came from tradition to a new trend and then to be open, its function of social governance also showed the logic of developing from self-government to assisted governance and finally to be co-governance.