Guangzhou's Bureau of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation reports it's the first time for a Guangzhou enterprise to receive a U.N. procurement order. A private printing enterprise has made a successful bid of 887,200 yuan on the UNDP printing program. As of April this year, 151 enterprises have become registered U.N. vendors, with most of them being private ones.

Xu Ailin, Deputy Director of the Trade Development Department of the Bureau, says the reason there are few Chinese enterprises on the U.N. procurement list because they don't know the procurement procedures of the organization.

To participate in the U.N. procurement program, enterprises first have to register at the procurement divisions of the relevant U.N. agencies and organizations and be approved as vendors.

Xu also says, each year the Guangzhou earmarks 800,000 yuan from the Fund for Trade Rejuvenation through Science and Technology as a sub-fund to support its enterprises' participation in U.N. procurement. Also, the government also seeks to provide direct support to enterprises that supply goods and services to the United Nations.

Editor: Yan