CATIS is a national non-profit society established by the Ministry of Commerce, authorized by the State Council and registered in the Ministry of Civil Affairs in 2007.With its separate legal personality, it is also the only trade-in-services industrial organization in China. It was established by the government under the strategic background to optimize the international trade structure and stressing the development of trade in services. The aim of CATIS: following the national development strategy of service industry and trade in services, to integrate resources, and to construct an international coordination and promotion platform on trade in services; to assist the government in formulating and improving the trade in services laws and regulations; to promote the national brand-China Service worldwide and assist the servitization of manufacturing in China.