The Social Function Of The Chinese Trade Association--With The Theory Of Public Governance

At present, in the internalional community, trade association plays a more and more important role in the global business. The Third Sector that includes the trade association also becomes a significant power in the international political arena. The global corporative revolution is energetic. At home, the exist room and the function scope of the trade association are continuously expanding with the deepening of the economic reform and the beginning of the political and social reform. Under the international and national background, an in-depth and all-around study of the function of the Chinese trade association should be conducted.Although the study of the function of the trade association is an important part of the research of the trade association in China, most Chinese scholars regard the trade association just as a kind of economic organization. Consequently, the study of the function of the trade association mostly focuses on the economic effect on individual trade and associator. The study of the integral effects on economics, politics and society are ignored.Accordingly, from a new perspective, an in-depth and all-around study of the function of the Chinese trade association with an advanced theory can improve the study of the function of the trade association, reduce the resistance of the development, unify the opinion of the people and faci 1 i tate the heal thy development of the trade association in China, which will help China to realize the social transformation smoothly and achieve the socialist modernization favourably. Thus, it has an important theoretical and practical significance to research into the social function of the trade association in China.The paper uses the theory of public governance, combined with othermethods, such as theoretical analysis, quantitative analysis and case study to make a research on the social function of the Chinese trade association theoretically and practically. The frame of this paper is as following:The first part analyses the social function that the Chinese trade association should boast. The Chinese trade association can promote the economic development and protect the economic inierests of China in the economic area. It can facilitate the transformation of the governmental function, improve the ability of the control of the macro-economy and supervise the action of the government by law in the political area. It can acL as a lubricant of the society and cultivate the development of the civil society.The second part analyses the practical condition of the social function ol' the Chinese trade association, which includes an evaluation of the condition and an analysis of the factors that restrict the exertion of the function. The paper points out that the Chinese trade association has begun to exert its most function, but the condition is unsatisfactory on the whole. Then the paper gives a profound analysis to the factors from exterior and interior dimensions.The innovation of the paper is as following:The first one is the theory. The paper analyses the social function ol' the Chinese trade association with the theory of public governance.The second one is the viewpoint. This paper puts forward the social function that the Chinese trade association should boast.