Beijing Municipal Engineering Association was established in April 2002. The Association is mainly composed by enterprises and institutions which are engaged in municipal engineering construction in Beijing, municipal facilities maintenance, municipal engineering design, supervision, consultation, municipal building materials production, and municipal technology research and development. By the end of 2006, there have been 157 member units in the Association. Aims of the Association are: to represent and safeguard the rights and interests of the industry, to reflect the desire of the industry, to standardize the behavior of the industry and to build the self-discipline mechanism of the industry; to collect and organize the information about economy and technology in municipal engineering at home and abroad, to organize the contact and communication of the municipal industry at home and abroad, to carry out exchanges seminars, training, consulting, inspecting and evaluating activities and to provide various services for the development of the industry. Now, the services provided by the Association to the member units are: to organize the engineering assessment, title appraisal, education training and industry assessment, to promote the industry standard, to analyze the industry statistics, to exchange the industry information, to strengthen the industry self-discipline and to provide consulting services.