Directly under the Ministry of Commerce, The China international Center for Economic and Technical Exchanges (hereafter referred to as CICETE) is an administratively autonomous agency, which was founded on March 12, 1983 with the approval of the State Council. Since its establishment, CICETE has witnessed an extraordinary history of nearly three decades, during which it deems its responsibility to promote economic and technical exchanges between China and the rest of the world and make great contributions to China’s economic and social development.
CICETE's main function, delegated by the Ministry, is to coordinate the cooperation between China and UNDP, UNIDO and UNV including executing their assisted programs to China, and to implement projects of general goods supply under the China-Aid programme to other developing countries. Meanwhile, we organize conferences, exhibitions and overseas trainings, invite international short-term and long-term consultants, and provide project management service for international organizations, government agencies and enterprises. In addition, they have also been cooperating actively with international Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and enterprises through their subsidiary bodies-China Association for NGO Cooperation, China Association for Promoting UN Procurement, China Association for Trade in Service, and China-Han Technical Development Co. Ltd.
What They Do
-Formulating the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF), the Common Country Assessment (CCA) and country specific policies within United Nations development system
-Programming of UNDP and UNIDO assistance to China, the country policies related to regional cooperation and south-south cooperation, and program identification.
-Implementation, evaluation and financial management of UNDP and UNIDO assisted projects to China.
-Management and implementation of international assisted programs as a specialized international assistance executing agency of Ministry of Commerce.
-Implementation of general goods supply under the Chinese Government’s assistance programme to foreign countries. incl. invitation for bid, tender decision and implementation.
-Organization of conference and exhibition sponsored by Ministry of Commerce, and personnel training, procurement of emergency assistance goods and etc.
-The provision of project management service for international organizations, government agencies and enterprises
-Daily operation of secretariats of China Association for NGO Cooperation, China Association for Trade in Service and China Association for Promoting UN Procurement.
-Implementation of other tasks assigned by Ministry of Commerce.
