China OSS Promotion Union

China OSS Promotion Union (hereinafter referred to as "COPU") is a social alliance voluntarily formed by enterprises, communities, colleges, research institutions, customers, industry organizations and supporting agencies under the guidance of government industrial administration departments. It is a non-government organization and stands as an independent corporate legal person. It was founded on July.22nd, 2004, in Beijing. The aim of COPU is to promote development and application of Linux/ OSS in China; to promote the communication and cooperation on open source movement among China, Japan and Korea; to make contribution to global open source movement development. COPU will bring into full play its role of bridging the government with enterprises in policy guidance and implementation, its role of bridging enterprises with the users, enterprises with each other, enterprises with communities, domestic enterprises/communities with their foreign counterparts in communication, combination and cooperation in terms of R&D, manufacturing, training, testing, certification, standardization and applications, etc.

Professor Lu Shouqun ：

     Professor Lu Shouqun is currently the Chairman of China Open Source Software Promotion Union (COPU), the Honored Chairman of China Linux University Promotion Alliance.

     Prof. Lu is currently the Vice Chairman of China Federation of Industrial Economics.

     Prof. Lu is currently the Director of Beijing Network Multimedia Laboratory.

     Prof. Lu is currently the president of China E-Government council.

     Prof. Lu was the Executive Vice Director of Informatization Office of the State Council.

     Prof. Lu was appointed as the Senior Informatization Advisor of Peoples Bank of China, State Administration of Radio and Television, Beijing People's Municipal Government, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, State Information Center, and Ministry of Aerospace,China Huaneng Group.

     Prof. Lu was the Expert Advisor of Open Source Development Labs.

     Prof. Lu was the Honored Chairman of the Board of Capital Information Development Company Co., Ltd.

     Prof. Lu was the chief advisor of E-Commerce of Commerce Ministry.

     Prof. Lu was the Director of Beijing Electronics Revival Office and Director of Beijing Municipal Government Electronics Industry Office.

     Prof. Lu was the Chairman of the Board of China Great Wall Computer Group, the Board Chairman of China GBN and participated in the establishment of China United Telecommunications Corporation as a key member of the team.

     Prof. Lu had once led (one of officers in chief) development and application engineering of UNIX V5, R4.2(cooperated with USL/AT&T). Prof. Lu was in charge of general planning and framework designing of the "Golden" Projects of "Golden Bridge", "Golden Custom", "Golden Card" and "Golden Tax" which are the symbols of China Informatization; he was the team leader of State Council Preparatory Group for establishing the first generation of Internet and Internet Information Management Center in China and drafting the first Internet Law and Regulations; he organized the establishment of "Window of Capita" (the 1st E-government website in China) and "Capital E-Mall" (the 1st E-commerce trading place in China).