What's CFPEC

Introduction of China Forest & Paper Executive Club

China Forest & Paper Executive Club (CFPEC) is a non-governmental organization that initiated by celebrated entrepreneurs of pulp, paper and related businesses incorporated in China. Launched in March 2002 by 28 founding members, CFPEC has grown to 44 members.

CFPEC aims at providing the venue for those executives to exchange in-depth views on strategy; working as the bridge to facilitate communication among the paper industry, related government department and media, as well as an important link between domestic forest & paper corporations and those counterparts outside China. The club also contributes a lot to healthy and stable growth of the industry and strives hard to make China to be a large and powerful papermaking country in the world. All social activities of the club strictly abide by the Constitution of the People's Republic of China, other laws, regulations, national policies and accord with international practice. The club will not conduct or organize any social programs involving inappropriate competition.

CFPEC implements the institute of membership. Any scaled forest & paper enterprises registered in industry that accept the club's constitution and pledge to fulfill their duties may apply to the club for the membership, whatever the character they are: state-owned, private, joint stock or completely owned by foreign investors and they will be qualified to join CFPEC as long as at least 2/3 of active club members approve their applications. Famous foreign papermaking corporations that have set up paper mills or launched its offices in China may also submit the application to become the "overseas members".

CFPEC has now 44 members including 6 overseas companies. According to the statistics ending 2004, CFPEC members together represent 21.76 million tons of pulp and paper capacity, in which high quality paper/board and market pulp are 16.8 and 1.2 million tons respectively. It is expected that CFPEC members will install 13 new state-of-the-art paper machines with 3.6 million tons of new capacity by the end of 2005.

CFPEC holds the general meeting biannually. The theme of the meeting is mainly to evaluate the industry's development and to discuss the development strategy among the members. CFPEC also invites government officials from related department to participate in the general meeting to communicate with her members——discussion covers the topics like latest government policies and opinions or suggestions from members to the departments concerned. CFPEC had successfully held such kind of meeting for 8 consecutive times by October 2005, of which, the 4th meeting was an international seminar concerning the world forest and paper industry.

In 2004, CFPEC organized a delegation visiting Japan and Australia. The delegation members held talks with the paper associations from these two countries and also paid a visit to their papermaking corporations. Other services of CFPEC include providing her members with a monthly report concerning the paper industry and helping to arrange business visits among the members if necessary.

General meeting is the highest organ of the CFPEC, under which, the Chairman Committee (including one Chairman) consists of 9 representatives elected by all the members. The duties of the Chairman Committee are to map out the club's major activities annually and put forward preliminary plans on major decisions. The meeting of Chairman Committee is called and hosted by the Chairman.

Expense of the club's social activities comes from membership fee. The use of those expenses will follow the principle of "where coming, where going" since CFPEC is a non-profit organization.