First Quarter Work Report of Hangzhou Laundry and Dyeing Industry Association

The China Laundry Information Center has comprehensively organized the work reported by the Hangzhou Laundry and Dyeing Association, with the specific content as follows:

Hangzhou Laundry and Dyeing Industry Association held the 2012 Annual Member Conference and 2013 Spring Festival Gathering

The prosperous scene of the year dances like dragons and snakes, and the spring light of the new year flutters like colorful butterflies. On January 14, 2013, the Association's 2012 Annual Member Conference and 2013 Spring Festival Gathering was held at the Hanxiang Hall of Xiangyuan Hotel.
Xu Tianyun, President of the Hangzhou Laundry and Dyeing Industry Association, Vice Presidents Wu Hangsheng, Li Bin, Shen Yongliang, Weng Xiangqun, Wang Aihua, Executive Directors Jin Jian, Sun Haixia, Ye Shengliang, Supervisor Zhu Guoyan, Deputy Inspector Wang Yongqing of Hangzhou Municipal Trade Bureau, Director-level Staff Member Lü Yan of the Policy and Regulations Department, and more than fifty enterprise leaders and representatives from the entire industry gathered together to celebrate the arrival of the Year of the Snake.
The meeting began with a warm welcome speech by Secretary-General Cai Wenlei, who first warmly welcomed all the leaders, enterprise leaders, and representatives attending the meeting, and hoped to strengthen communication among members through this annual conference, learning from each other to make progress together.
Subsequently, President Xu Tianyun delivered the 2012 Association Work Report and the 2013 Work Plan. In 2012, the Association carried out solid work in seven major areas: conducting industry surveys, improving the overall quality of practitioners, carrying out industry image enhancement activities, promoting standard pilot acceptance work, reflecting member demands, strengthening self-construction, and more. In 2013, the Association will continue to deepen efforts in investigating the industry status, combating unfair competition, improving practitioner quality, and major promotional activities, effectively playing the role of a bridge between the government and enterprises. At the end of the report, President Xu Tianyun thanked all laundry and dyeing personnel for their support of the Association and wished all the leaders abundant wealth and the laundry and dyeing industry better development in the new year.
The annual member conference held at the turn of the year has become a tradition in the Hangzhou laundry and dyeing industry. This grand event provides a platform for everyone to meet new friends and greet old ones. Industry peers gather here to share fine wine and celebrate the arrival of the new year.

The Association held the 17th Executive Council Meeting of the Third Session

On March 7, the Association held the 17th Executive Council Meeting of the Third Session. The main agenda was to study and arrange the Association's 2013 work plan and other matters.
At the meeting, the "2012 Business Industry Management Work Summary and 2013 Work Opinions" from the Hangzhou Municipal Trade Bureau (Hangzhou Grain Bureau) were first conveyed. The key points for the Association's work in 2013 mainly include: first, promoting the construction of platforms for small and medium-sized trade circulation enterprises; second, focusing on investigating the industry overview; third, innovating promotional activity methods; fourth, improving internal norms of industry organizations; and fifth, strengthening the Association's organization.
Especially to fully implement the municipal party committee and government’s strategy to expand domestic demand and promote consumption, solidly advance the construction of "Shopping Paradise, Food Capital," focus on expanding consumption areas, explore new consumption hotspots, thereby further driving consumption demand, boosting consumer confidence, comprehensively promoting the city's economy to develop well and fast, and ensuring the full completion of annual target tasks.
Based on the above work points and requirements, the meeting studied and deployed the Association's work plan for this year. First, respond to the government's call by launching large-scale promotional activities across the industry to stimulate consumption and promote the industry; second, promote standard construction and complete the acceptance work of provincial pilot units; third, continue to carry out the evaluation of Hangzhou's graded laundry and dyeing enterprises.
The meeting was chaired by President Xu Tianyun. Director Yu Hongwei of the Policy and Regulations Department of Hangzhou Municipal Trade Bureau attended the meeting on behalf of the competent department and participated in the discussion of related matters. Except for two executive directors who were absent due to personal reasons, all other executive directors attended the meeting. Supervisor Zhu Guoyan was present as an observer.

Warm congratulations to the Hangzhou Laundry and Dyeing Industry Association for winning the title of Advanced Industry Association in Hangzhou's Trade and Commerce in 2012

On February 28, 2013, the 2012 Annual Work Meeting of Hangzhou's Trade and Commerce Industry Associations was held at the city's Lianhua Hotel.
The meeting was hosted by Director Yu Hongwei of the Policy and Regulations Department of the Hangzhou Municipal Trade Bureau. Deputy Director Zheng Yongbiao of the Municipal Trade Bureau attended and spoke. He first affirmed the work of the city's trade and commerce industry associations in 2012 and put forward three major work requirements for the Association in 2013: development, service, and standardization. Deputy Inspector Wang Yongqing of the Municipal Trade Bureau attended the meeting and arranged work related to the public service platform for small and medium-sized trade enterprises.
In 2012, the Hangzhou laundry and dyeing industry, with standardized management, enthusiastic service, and extensive activities, won the title of Advanced Industry Association in Hangzhou's Trade and Commerce System for 2012. Secretary-General Cai Wenlei of the Association attended the conference and gave a speech at the meeting.

Deputy Director Zheng Yongbiao visits and investigates our Association

On the afternoon of March 12, Deputy Director Zheng Yongbiao of the Hangzhou Municipal Trade Bureau, Director Yu Hongwei of the Policy and Regulations Department, and Director-level Staff Member Lü Yan came to our Association for investigation and held a symposium.
At the symposium, Secretary-General Cai Wenlei reported on the current basic situation of the laundry and dyeing industry's development. Vice President Wu Hangsheng, as an enterprise representative, introduced the main problems faced by enterprises and the efforts made by enterprises to seek development.
After listening to the report, Deputy Director Zheng Yongbiao said that the laundry and dyeing industry is related to the quality of life of the people, the harmonious and stable supporting services of the tourism industry, and is also an important industry for economic development. He hopes that laundry and dyeing enterprises will continuously improve management levels and employee quality, focus on long-term development, accelerate transformation and upgrading, and strive to meet the growing needs of the people.
Regarding the actual difficulties in the development of Hangzhou's laundry and dyeing industry and the next development ideas, Zheng Yongbiao pointed out that currently the service level of the laundry and dyeing industry still has a considerable gap compared with consumer demand and advanced foreign levels. The laundry and dyeing industry should develop in line with demand, actively upgrade and transform, learn advanced foreign technologies, improve enterprise management levels and service personnel quality, increase technical content, and focus on long-term development.
Zheng Yongbiao finally emphasized that the development of our city's laundry and dyeing service industry should continue to implement existing support policies, and new policy support measures can also be proposed for common problems faced by enterprises. Multiple approaches should be taken to create a good social atmosphere for the development of the laundry and dyeing industry and improve social recognition.

Our Association organized some enterprises to participate in the training class for laundry and dyeing industry referees and examiners held by the China Commercial Federation Laundry and Dyeing Committee

The training for judges of the National Vocational Skills Competition in the Laundry and Dyeing Industry and the training for national vocational skill appraisal examiners for laundry workers, organized by the Laundry and Dyeing Professional Committee of the China General Chamber of Commerce, was held from March 20 to 23 in Wuhan, Hubei. More than 200 trainees from across the country participated in the training.
Pan Wei, Executive Deputy Director and Secretary-General of the Laundry and Dyeing Professional Committee of the China General Chamber of Commerce; Jia Weiyi, Director of the Competition Department of the China Employment Training Technical Instruction Center; Liu Yong, Deputy Secretary-General of the China General Chamber of Commerce and Director of the Vocational Skills Appraisal Center; and Dong Chao, President of the Wuhan Laundry and Dyeing Industry Association, attended the opening ceremony. The training event was hosted by Wang Houzeng, Executive Deputy Director of the Laundry and Dyeing Committee of the China General Chamber of Commerce.
Jia Weiyi, Director of the Competition Department of the China Employment Training Technical Instruction Center; Professor Huang Xianjun of Capital Normal University; Liu Yong, Deputy Secretary-General of the China General Chamber of Commerce and Director of the Vocational Skills Appraisal Center; and Liu Juan from the Vocational Skills Appraisal Center of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security gave explanations to the trainees on various courses including vocational skills competitions and selection of skilled talents, the foundational qualities of vocational skills competition judges, and the vocational ability analysis oriented towards the professional activities of examiners.
Our association was led by President Xu Tianyun, with participants including Shen Yongliang from Hangzhou Zhijiang Cleaning Company, Weng Xiangqun from Zhejiang Industry Logistics Service Company, Zhu Guoyan from Dayang Hotel Supplies Company, Zhang Limin from Kanghua Yasen Laundry Company, Qiu Yixin from Bole Leather Care Company, Pan Chengfei from Dingsheng Laundry Service Company, and Cai Wenlei from the association's secretariat attending this training.