The International Committee for the promotion of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives, is an international non-governmental organization founded in 1939 in Hong Kong. It suspended its work in 1952 but revived again in 1987.
The Gung HO movement was initiated in 1937 in Shanghai by Rewi Alley of New Zealand and some other foreigners together with a group of Chinese patriots. It aimed at organizing the workers and refugees for production to support the Chinese’s people war of resistance. Gun Ho Cooperatives spread in the unoccupied areas of China since 1939 and at its peak in 1941.
After reviving in 1987 the new Gun Ho ICCIC is registered in the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, and has body corporate capacity.
Since 1987, the ICCIC has supported a large number of cooperatives in different provinces of China for cooperative principle training, capacity building income generating participatory management, environment improvement, women’s position enhancement, poverty alleviation etc.
The success of ICCIC projects has strengthened its ties with other cooperative organizations at home and abroad. ICCIC keeps close ties with the All China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives, the All China Federation of Handicraft Cooperatives.
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