Profile： China Import Association, belonging to China Trade Organzition(CTO), was founded in 1978 when the Communist Party of China formulated the basic state policy of “reform and opening-up”. It aims to promote the development of import trade of China, supervise the market of import trade, maintain the order of import trade and protect lawful rights of foreign enterprises. As the only authoritative organization of import trade in China, it provides all-round import trade and marketing services for foreign enterprises.

Purposes: The purposes of China Import Association are as follows: serve its members and investors, and to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of its members but at the same time it will comply with the Constitution of the People's Republic of China and implement state laws, regulations and policies about opening to the outside world and foreign investment development; voice the opinions and demands of its members and investors to relevant government authorities to continuously improve domestic investment environment; strengthen communication, understanding and cooperation between its Chinese members and foreign members, between its members and government agencies, and among the members themselves; exchange information and experience; boost China’s import; help its members play an active role in China's modernization drive and international economic cooperation.

Functions：
1. Publicizing and implementing the state guidelines, policies, laws and regulations concerning opening up and attracting foreign investment, and introducing China's investment environment to the investors, and offering information, advices and other services in order to promote foreign investment in China.

2. Introducing advanced foreign technology,equipment and popularize their use in China.

3. Hearing complaints from its members and conveying the opinions of its members and other foreign investors to the relevant government departments concerning investment environment.

4. On the basis of the authorization or commission by the competent government departments, organizing and coordinating its members to bid for quota for export products or respond to antidumping investigations.

5. Holding international economic seminar, investment project seminar, discussion, trade fair, meeting of China marketing and import etc. when the association is commissioned by the Chinese government and member companies.

6. Hosting parties to enhance the friendship and cooperation in-between its members and to consolidate the connection and mutual understanding between its members and the government.

7. Developing friendly relationship with overseas business groups to promote international communication and cooperation.

Achievement of China Import Association:
China Import Association adheres to its principles of “coordination, guidance, consultancy, and services” since its founding. It has been a “bridge and bond” between the government and the companies. It is based on services for domestic and foreign enterprises to maintain state and social interests and rightful interests of foreign-invested companies. China Import Association has used its quality services to introduce more than 5,000 investment projects whose value totals 13 billion U.S. dollars. It has also helped 27,000 enterprises successfully enter the Chinese market and made them develop rapidly in the market. Now, it has more than 20,000 enerprise members of various kinds all over the world.

In the meantime, CIA has held more than thirty invest promotion meetings and import seminars actively for various industries. This has promoted the communication and cooperation between Chinese and foreign enterprises; introduced advanced foreign technology and service into China, and played an active role in development of China import business.

The CIA Member system:
1. The invested and promoted organizations who be authorized by the executive departments of Provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, the central cities.
2. State-level economic and technological development zones, high-tech industry development zones, bonded zones, invested & promoted agencies of export zones; the provincial-level development zones,the municipal government's invested organizations with relative good basis and attractive condition.
3. The various enterprises and institutions who do the import and export trading business in China.
4. The influential trading institutions,transnational corporations and institutional investors in China investing field.
5.The enterprises and institutions who has relation withchina import business ;and some ones who want to enter the Chinese market