China Development Brief (CDB) has posted its own list of foreign NGOs with representative offices in China. CDB’s foreign NGO-related content can be found under the keyword “Overseas NGOs” on its website, including document translations and news updates.
As of June 16, more than six months after the Foreign NGO Law went into effect, 84 foreign NGOs have successfully registered 97 representative offices. Thirty-eight unique Chinese government entities at either the national or provincial level have agreed to serve as the Professional Supervisory Unit (PSU) for one or more of these NGOs.
To complement our post on a successful temporary activity filing, one foreign NGO has agreed to let us present its experience of filing for a temporary activity, in which the filing stalled out in the middle of the process. The problem did not appear to be the nature of the activity or inadequate documentation on the part of the foreign NGO, but rather a result of the “dual management” system for domestic Chinese NGOs.
In 1986, Johns Hopkins University opened a study center in Nanjing University, making it the first American institution of higher education allowed to establish a physical presence in China during the Communist era. Since then, dozens of other institutions have followed suit, armed with guarantees that they can maintain the same standards of free speech and academic freedom that they enjoy in the U.S. ... so long as those freedoms stop at the university door.
Liu Xingzhe is Director of Content and Copyright at Pear Video. Before joining Pear Video, he was the Director of Photojournalism at The Paper. Liu has covered stories domestically and internationally, including the Wenchuan earthquake, the Libyan Revolution, the Arab Spring and the North Korea nuclear crisis. Liu was named one of 10 Photojournalists of The Year in 2015 by Tuchong, a Chinese photography community website, for his series of photos in North Korea. Now his work focuses on China’s urbanization and Chinese youth. He is a contributing photographer to the @EyesOnChinaProject Instagram feed. Born in Chengdu, Sichuan province, Liu currently lives and works in Shanghai.
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