China Association of Pharmaceutical Commerce (CAPC) is a nationwide social economic organization , and is an aggregate corporation which was established in 1989 and authorized by the Ministry of Civil Affairs. There are nearly 3 hundred mumber enterprises in CAPC now, and the chairman is Fu Ming zhong.
Serving as an assistant and adviser of the government department in charge of pharmaceutical, CAPC plays an active role as a bridge and tie between the government and the enterprises. Its purposes are to serve the pharmaceutical production and circulation, satisfy the needs of people's healthcare, prevention and cure of diseases, scientific research and education as best as one can and make greater contributions to the socialism modernization.
The main tasks of CAPC are:
1. To propose to the government departments regarding development, and important policies and regulations of the pharmaceutical industry on the basis of investigation and research.
2. To research market trends to provide guidance for the commodity trade; to promote the lateral ties, to offer pharmaceutical commercial enterprises all kinds of services, and to give assistance to enterprises in settling all kinds of problems which may arise in operation.
3. To develop coordination between member enterprises, between industry and commerce, between commerce and commerce, and between commerce and medical institutions; to provide consulting services; and to put forth to the government departments proposals regarding market circulation and price control, etc.
4. To collect and categorize the basic material in respects of statistics, financial affairs and price, etc. as well as to solicit the feedback of the information; to strengthen market study and forecast; and to swap information between various countries and various industry.
5. To urge the enterprises of the industry to implement "The Drug Administration Law of the P.R.China" and "The Quality Control Standards for Pharmaceutical Commodities"; and to recommend advanced quality-control enterprises to government departments.
6. To accelerate the reform within the pharmaceutical commercial enterprises', to make arrangements for the enterprises to formulate service standards, rules and measures; to spread scientific management techniques and means; and to exchange experience in management and reform.
7. To conduct various forms of lectures and training courses concerning professional teachnique and business management, etc; and to develop staff's, education to enhance the quality of the employees.
8. To organize research into such problems as wage, labour insurance, welfare and titles for technical personnel; and to report the state of affairs departments in charge and make proposals.
9. To develop actively international communication, and organize exchange with forecgn counterparts.
10. To undertake relevant matters entrusted by the government department in charge of pharmaceuticals issues.
The administrative bodies of CAPC consist of secretariate, information department and enterprise management department, etc.
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