信用，是市场经济的基础和重要标志，是建立现代市场体系、规范市场经济秩序的重要内容。中国政府高度重视推进社会信用体系建设工作。做好这项工作，有利于提高全民族的道德水平，营造互信互利的社会氛围；有利于形成统一、开放、竞争、有序的市场体系，促进商品和生产要素的流动；有利于优化我国的投资和贸易环境，有效防范和化解交易风险，扩大对外开放，参与国际竞争，进而推动国民经济的持续健康发展和社会文明进步。
　　商会协会在整顿和规范市场经济秩序、推动社会信用体系建设中具有重要作用。2005年，原全国整顿和规范市场经济秩序领导小组办公室（2008年后，此项职能划入商务部）和国务院国有资产监督管理委员会联合印发了《商会协会行业信用建设工作指导意见》，提出了要以商会协会为主体，全面推动行业信用建设的指导思想、基本原则，明确了六项建设任务：一是开展诚信宣传教育，二是制定行规行约并监督执行，三是利用信用信息为会员服务，四是开展信用知识方面的培训，五是帮助会员企业建立内部信用风险管理制度，六是开展行业信用评价。2006年，两部门印发了《开展行业信用评价试点工作实施办法》，引导和规范行业信用评价工作。
　　行业信用评价工作的推广，开辟了具有中国特色的行业信用体系建设之路。行业信用评价工作是全国性商会协会在商务部、国资委的指导、监督下，通过企业自愿申报、严格评审、公示、复查等程序，依据有关法律、法规和行规行约，以及日常管理中积累的行业信用信息，紧密结合行业特点，综合考虑企业的基础管理、财务能力、竞争力状况、履约状况、守法守规及履行社会责任情况等因素，着重考核其在诚信经营方面的表现状况，对企业信用水平做出的全面评价。
　　行业信用评价工作得到了广大全国性行业协会和商会的积极响应，成为了他们开展行业自律和为会员企业服务的重要工作内容。截至2009年7月31日，共有96家全国性的商会协会参与信用评价工作，根据商会协会制定的评价标准，并聘请第三方信用服务机构参与评价，已评出AAA级信用企业2714家，AA级信用企业666家，A级信用企业117家，覆盖机械、电子、石化、电力、农业、水利、建筑、医药、内外贸流通等经济贸易领域的多数行业。
　　为加大对获得信用评价等级企业的宣传力度，推动评价结果的应用，商务部和国资委决定今后每年将定期印制《中国行业信用评价A级以上企业名录》，向社会广泛推荐，并接受公众监督。名录将发送至有关政府部门、驻华使领馆、中国驻外使领馆、相关金融机构、中介组织等，同时也会在部分重要展会、论坛中发放。
　　我们希望能够通过这本名录，向国内外推荐信用良好企业，帮助交易双方防范信用风险，降低交易成本，为信用企业创造更多的市场机遇，不断限制失信企业的生存空间，逐步规范市场秩序，推动各行各业健康发展，为构建和谐社会和保障国民经济平稳较快发展创造良好的市场环境。
　　欲查询该名录企业更多信息，可登陆中国反商业欺诈网（中国市场秩序网）www.12312.gov.cn“行业信用体系建设栏目”。
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　商务部市场秩序司（信用工作办公室）
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　国资委行业协会联系办公室
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 二〇〇九年八月八日

　　Credit is the basis and symbol of market economy and an important content to set up modern market system and regulate market economic order. The Chinese government highly emphasize on pushing social credit system construction. To do this work well, it will help to raise the whole nation’s moral level, and to create a social atmosphere of mutual trust and mutual benefit; it will help to form an unified, open, competitive, orderly market system, and to speed up the flowing of goods and production factors; it will help to optimize the investment and trade environment, to prevent and reduce the transaction risks, to further opening-up and participate in international competition, thereby to promote the sustainable and healthy development of the national economy and social progress and civilization.
　　Industry chambers and associations take the important role in rectifying and regulating the market economic order, as well as promoting social credit system construction. In 2005, the National Office for the Rectification and Regulation of Market Economic Order (in 2008,the function assigned to the Ministry of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China, MOFCOM) and the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (SASAC) jointly published “The Guidance on Chambers and Associations to Construct Industrial Credit” , which proposed to take the promotion of industry credit construction as the basic principle with chambers and associations as its main body. The Guidance pointed out six tasks: carrying out credit publicity and education; making regulations and oversee the implementation; using the credit information to serve enterprises; carrying out the training on credit knowledge; helping enterprises to build the internal credit risk management system; developing industry credit rating.
　　In 2006, the two departments issued "The Approach for Pilot Work on Industrial Credit Rating" to guide and regulate the industry credit rating.
　　Industrial credit rating has created the path of industry credit system construction with Chinese characteristics. Guided and supervised by MOFCOM and SASAC, via a series process of voluntary declare, assessment, publish and review, according as related laws, regulations and rules, combining with the industry credit information and industry characteristics, taking the enterprises’ basic management, financial ability, competitiveness, performance of contract, law-abiding situation, and social responsibility into account, the industrial credit rating focuses on assessing the performance of trust management to make a comprehensive evaluation on enterprise’s credit level.
　　Industrial credit rating has get support from massive chambers and associations, which has becoming an important work to develop industry self-principle and to serve membership. Up to July 31, 2009, 96 national chambers and associations have participate in the credit rating, According to the evaluation criteria and cooperated with the third-party credit service enterprises, we have evaluated 2,714 enterprises for AAA grade, 666 enterprises for AA grade and 117 enterprises for A grade, including the majority industries of machinery, electronics, petrochemicals, electricity, agriculture, water conservancy, construction, medicine, internal and overseas trade etc..
　　To enhance the propaganda of credit enterprises and to promote the using of credit results, MOFCOM and SASAC decided to publish “The Enterprise List for Industrial Credit Rating –Level A and Above” annually, recommended to public and accept the supervise by public. The List will send to government departments, embassies and consulates in China, overseas embassies and consulates of China, financial departments, and intermediate organizations etc., as well as release on the expo and forum.
　　We hope to recommend enterprises with good credit, to help the two sides to prevent credit risk and reduce costs, to create market opportunities for enterprises. We hope to limit the living space of enterprises without trust, to regulate the market order, to promote the healthy development of all fields, further to build a harmonious society and create a good market environment for the stable and rapid development of the national economy.
　　For more information about these enterprises, please see the “Industrial Credit System Construction Column” on website www.12312.gov.cn.
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Department of Market Supervision, MOFCOM (Office of Credit)
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Office of Industry, SASAC
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　8, August, 2009