Ever since China opened up to the world in 1980's, the Shanghai Municipal Government, led by the Communist Party of China and the State Council, makes great effort to build the city into an international economic, financial, trade and shipping center. With the cooperation and hardwork of Shanghai people, the city is progressing to its goal as a global metropolitan. The new team of leaders of the Shanghai government took office in February 2003. "The power of the government is entrusted by the people; the interest of people is above all," as Shanghai Mayor Han Zheng promise in his inaugural. Guided by the Shanghai Party Committee, the city's new leadership vows to strictly perform its official duties; to make significant progress in self-improvement, and to intensify the shift of its role from administrative to public service. The Shanghai government will build itself into a service government that would share with the people all their happiness and troubles; a solid responsible government that is efficient, honest and diligent; a law-abiding government that respects legal system and rules strictly and impartially.

Shanghai will Put the Credit Management into the Training System

07/06/2004

"Credit Management Talents" are not enough to meet the increasing demand of credit system construction in Shanghai. It is learned from the introduction conference held by municipal Informatization Committee on February 9 that since this year, Shanghai will put the training of credit management into the training system for urgent-needed talents and explore the certification system for the professionalism in credit service industry.

Since 2005, there will be training and examinations for the "Credit Management Talents". It is introduced that the training and examination of "Credit Management Talents" will be carried out in different levels. The training of credit management for professionals and managers applies to the professional managerial staff in enterprises and is carried out by compiling text books, stipulate examination outline and setting independent training and examination institutions and in a socialized and marketized operation way. The instructive credit training for governmental officials and state civil servant is mainly the basic knowledge of credit management and will be finished within 3 years since this year and in a rotation way. All the trainees must pass the unified examination. The popularization and educational training of credit knowledge for citizens aim to spreading the credit ethics, changing credit ideas, preventing credit-caused risks and teaching how to use credit tools. The training and examination of eligibility for credit service employees aim at those for credit investigation, credit evaluation, credit ranking, credit management consultation and commercial payment insistence. The training and examination institutions also need be separated.
The Shanghai government 2006