Inaugural Meeting of Zhejiang Province Membrane Industrial Association and the First Members Congress were solemnly held at Hangzhou Zijingang International Hotel in the morning of May 16, 2014. Mr. Zhou Long, the vice director of the Administration for Social Organization of Zhejiang Provincial Department of Civil Affairs, attended the meeting and mad an important speech; nearly 100 member representatives from the membrane enterprises, environmental protection enterprises, water treatment enterprises and other related enterprises of the province attended the meeting. The meeting was presided by Mr. Wang Shougen, the Center’s vice direcror.
Membrane technology is one of hi-tech technologies which are the most promising in the 21st century; the water treatment technology by membrane process has turned into a mainstream technology to solve resource-type water shortage and water quality-type water shortage. Our province started earlier and developed more rapidly in respect of water treatment by membrane technology, and is one of the areas which have the strongest technical forces and the greatest specialized scale; its membrane devices capacity and products have attained internationally advanced level, and the province is leading and promoting the development of the membrane industries in our country.
In order to integrate the industrial resources and more effectively promote development of the provincial membrane enterprise, the Center first proposed and united Zhejiang University, BlueStar (Hangzhou) Membrane IndustrialCo., Ltd., Hangzhou Tianjian Fluid Control EquipmentCo., Ltd., Zhejiang Dongyang Environmental Engineering Co., Ltd. five units to jointly initiate establishment of Zhejiang Provincial Association of Membrane Industries, which is the first membrane industrial association at provincial level founded in our country. The establishment of the association aims to fully play a good role in service innovation to drive developing strategy by the association as a vital new force, establish the platforms of membrane industries’ exchange and popularization etc., to promote the industrial development, establish well expert warehouse, member warehouse etc. industrial resources warehouses etc. to promote sharing of industrial resources, and actively give impetus to the provincial “bringing five-water under joint control”, and better serve the member enterprise and the industrial chains of upstream and downstream in the provincial membrane industry. The association’s establishment will generate important promotion action on booming development of the provincial membrane industry and its continuous pilot in our country.
The meeting vote passed “Article s of Association of Zhejiang Provincial Membrane Industrial Association ”, and “Standards and methods of membership payment of Zhejiang Provincial Association of Membrane Industries”. In addition, the meeting elected the standing council, president, vice president, chief secretary etc. of the first council of the association, total 39 members were elected as directors, of them, Zheng Genjiang, the Center’s director was elected as the president of the first council.
In the meeting, the representatives actively spoke on stage to carry out discussion from introduction to advanced technologies or products to the latest frontier trends of the enterprises. The businessmen hold that the association foundation provides the enterprises’ development with an indispensible cooperation and exchange platform; the enterprises will fully share resources and promote the association development.