organize, participate or hold international conferences on economic, trade and technological cooperation, and legal affairs, to contact with the representative offices established by corresponding foreign organizations in China and the chambers of commerce founded by foreign countries in China, and to send permanent representatives or establish representative offices in foreign countries.

(III) To promote economic and trade exchanges between Jiangsu, and HK and Macao SAR and Taiwan, and to serve for mutual exchanges and cooperation between the said parties under the guidance of the People’s Government of Jiangsu Province and relevant departments.

(IV) To coordinate and manage overseas economic and trade exhibitions of Jiangsu Province, to approve economic and trade exhibitions in Jiangsu Province, to develop relations with the exhibition institutions and organizations of other countries and regions around theworld, to sponsor or undertake Jiangsu economic and trade fairs abroad, to take part in international trade expositions and fairs, to undertake or assisting in holding international economic and trade expositions and fairs in Jiangsu Province, to undertake the large economic and trade activities entrusted by the People’s Government of Jiangsu Province, and to approve the foreign conomic and technological expositions held by CCPIT, Jiangsu Sub-Council and its subsidiaries in Jiangsu Province.

(V) To collect, sort, transmit and release domestic and foreign economic and trade information, to establish the economic and trade information network, undertake evaluations and feasibilities studies on Sino-foreign economic and technological cooperative projects, to receive or undertake the economic and trade negotiations, technological and trade exchange and other economic and trade seminars held by relevant foreign