History and Origin of International Cooperation Day

The Roosevelt Fair Pioneers Society was born in England in 1844, opening the prelude to the modern cooperative movement. The International Cooperative Alliance was established in London in 1895. In 1922, the International Union of Cooperatives decided to identify the first Saturday of July each year as "International Day of Cooperatives." In 1992, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution announcing the first Saturday in July 1995 as the United Nations International Day of Cooperatives in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the International Co-op League and deciding to consider that this day be the United Nations International Cooperative Day each year in the future.
The International Cooperative Alliance is the oldest and largest independent non-governmental socio-economic organization in the world that unites, represents and serves cooperatives throughout the world. The membership organizations that participate in the ICCA are national cooperative organizations and international cooperative organizations in various countries of the world, including agriculture, banking, sales, credit, energy, industry, insurance, fisheries, housing, tourism and consumer cooperatives. Currently, the Coalition for International Cooperation has more than 250 member organizations from over 100 countries, representing more than 750,000 cooperatives and a total membership of more than 760 million people.
The All-China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives formally joined the International Cooperation Union in 1985 on behalf of the China Cooperative Federation and has been representing the Asia-Pacific region since 1997 as its vice chairman. Over the years, the All-China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives has been committed to the cause of international cooperatives and made a significant contribution to promoting the development of the international cooperative movement. It has played an increasingly important role in the large-scale international cooperatives.