In order to meet the energy requirements in the Eleventh Five-Year Plan, strengthen internationally win-win cooperation in energy strategy and adapt to the vigorous situation of renewable energy industry, with the instruction and support of Shanghai Economic Committee, Shanghai Social Service Bureau, Shanghai Administration Bureau of NGOs and Shanghai Federation of Industrial Economics, Shanghai New Energy Industry Association (SNEIA) has started up its various tasks. It takes Shanghai as the core, spreads to the rest of China and faces to the whole world.? Up to now, SNEIA has more than 200 members, including the equipment manufacturing enterprises, design institutions, investment groups, electricity grid companies and so on in new energy industry. The tenet of SNEIA: to push forward the technical and economic information exchanges inside the association, improve the relationship between its members and the government, society, and organizations home and abroad, prompt the technology advancement and extension of new energy as well as provide trade, technology and information services for Chinese and overseas new energy enterprises. The business scope of SNEIA: information and technology exchanges, technical advice, projects application, quality appraisal, marketing services, education and training and exhibition affairs. Functions of SNEIA:
Ⅰ.It has an expert team in new energy to assist the government and the industry in making industrial standards and providing technology consultation.
Ⅱ.It cooperates with international institutions, detection and identification agencies and industry associations in a way to provide the member units with one-stop services of detection, identification, international investigation, exchanges and cooperation, etc.
Ⅲ.It offers its members technological market services: a. the certification of Shanghai high and new tech results transformation projects; b. the management of West China projects, the assistance in helping medium and small-sized enterprises apply governmental funds such as the Innovation Foundation for Innovative Medium and Small-sized Enterprises and the technology management for serial projects; c. assessing intermediate and senior technical title; d. the technology training and so on.
Ⅳ.It works for issuing products information, keeping and selling techniques, standardizing this industry, helping its private enterprise members in reviewing, applying and approving the intermediate and senior technical titles.
Ⅴ.It is capable of organizing large international exhibitions, technical and academic exchanges. On January 1 2007, Shanghai New Energy Net was opened, and the industrial journal Shanghai New Energy was also issued, which will drive the development of new energy industry in different ways. The development goal of SNEIA : to build itself Into a new international industry association featuring independence and justice, standardized behavior, ordered operation, high representative nature and reliability and speaking rights in international contacts; besides, it should adapt to socialist market economy, accord with international practice and serves the demand of Shanghai’s globalization so that it will become the banner of Shanghai new energy industry and make new contributions to the undertaking “Develop new energy, Benefit all mankind.
