China News Service, Shanghai, March 13 (Reporter Chen Jing) The Shanghai Consumer Rights Protection Foundation, co-sponsored by seven large enterprises and public welfare foundations led by the Shanghai Consumer Rights Protection Committee, was officially established on the 13th.
Fang Huiping, director of the Shanghai Consumer Protection Committee and honorary chairman of the Shanghai Consumer Protection Foundation, said on the same day that the foundation will work with the consumer volunteer team to further improve the social protection system with the Shanghai Consumer Protection Committee as the main body.
The establishment of the foundation is a beneficial exploration to help the construction of Shanghai as an international consumption center city.
It is reported that the six companies donated 2 million yuan respectively (the same below), and the Shanghai Education Development Foundation donated 500,000 yuan, a total of 12.5 million yuan; of which 3 million yuan was used as a special fund for consumer rights protection.
The foundation will fund social organizations and professional institutions to carry out activities such as consumer education and guidance, consumer public interest litigation, social supervision in the field of consumption, and comparative experiments on goods and services; fund research and exchanges on consumer rights protection; assist those whose rights and interests have been damaged. Consumers file lawsuits; sponsor volunteers to engage in consumer rights protection activities; reward organizations and individuals who have made outstanding contributions to consumer rights protection.
Fang Huiping said that the construction of Shanghai as an international consumption center city has entered a critical period, which has put forward new and higher requirements for optimizing the consumption environment.
The foundation will focus on strengthening the material guarantee for the protection of consumers' rights and interests, and jointly serve to create a safe and secure consumer environment.
Fang Huiping pointed out that the establishment of the foundation is not only to realize the diversified supply of consumers' rights and interests in terms of human, financial, material, intellectual and other aspects of society, but also to transform the Shanghai Consumer Protection Commission from simply performing its institutional responsibilities to better playing its role as a platform. logo.
The fund will continue to open up new realms of consumer rights protection by building a resource-based platform and "taking advantage of the wisdom of everyone and gathering the power of everyone".
The Shanghai Consumer Protection Committee stated that the committee will guide the foundation to fully serve the cause of consumer rights protection and fully support the construction of Shanghai as an international consumption center city.
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