China Young Entrepreneur Association

China Young Entrepreneur Association (CYEA) is the mass organization of the national young entrepreneurs with the possession of the artificial person. It is also the group member of National Youth Union of China as well as the group member of China Entrepreneur Association (CEA). It is the tie of connecting Communist Youth League of China (CYLC) with Young Entrepreneur. CYEA develops from the former China Young Entrepreneur Management Association, which was established in 1985. At that time, there were only 100 members. After over ten years, CYEA consists of 47 group members & 2000 personal members who are advanced and excellent managers and directors. They are running various kinds of enterprises, including state-run enterprises, collective enterprises, joint-venture enterprises and private enterprises.

Under the guidance of Deng Xiaoping's theory, CYEA carries out the basic lines of Chinese People's Communist Party and helps young entrepreneurs to study and develop their causes.

The main tasks of CYEA are as follows:

1. To develop such activities as training, research & exchanges, etc; to develop young entrepreneurs improve their quality; to develop, praise and propaganda the excellent advanced young entrepreneurs.

2. To collude young entrepreneurs with the government, institutes and colleges in order to provide the services about policies, law, information, techniques and funds for young entrepreneurs.

3. To hold the consultative conferences; to set up the economic cooperative net; to promote the cooperation among the entrepreneurs.

4. To organize the young entrepreneurs to exchange with overseas young entrepreneurs as well as the young entrepreneurs from Hong Kong, Macao and Tai Wan.

5. To protect legitimate rights of young entrepreneurs.

6. To direct local Young Entrepreneur Association to deal with their daily work. In recent years, CYEA has developed various kinds of programs including the cooperative & consultative business of the economy & trade. In addition, it has chosen and awarded the advanced young entrepreneurs and to protect the interests of young entrepreneurs. Especially, CYEA often trains their staff and sends them to do research work abroad. More and more young entrepreneurs are encouraged to walk onto the competitive stage of the world.

The highest authority of CYEA is the national members' conference with one meeting held once every other two years. The executive council is elected for a term of two years, which consists of the president, vice-president, secretary-general, vice secretary-general and other members. The president is in charge of overall work; General-secretary deals with daily affairs of the association. CYEA sets up the special committees in various kinds of lines. Secretariat consists of office, training department, international department & economic cooperative department, etc.

Wang Guangying, the vice commissioner of the standing committee of the National people's Congress acts as the honorary president. Yuan Baohua, the president of CYEA, some state council leaders and some economic experts act as the consultants. Sun Jinlong, the secretary of secretariat of CYLC & the vice-chairman of National Students' Union of China, holds the position of the president of CYEA.