Does my organization have to pair with a National-Level Professional Supervisory Unit in order to carry out work throughout all of China? What if it is registered at the provincial level?
Though the Ministry of Public Security does not appear to have issued official written guidance on this point, the registrations of multiple foreign NGO representative offices show that groups registered at the provincial level can indeed work throughout all of China if their Professional Supervisory Units (PSUs) agree. As of March 2019, there are approximately 90 groups, registered in Anhui, Beijing, Chongqing, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Shandong, Shanghai, Sichuan, Tianjin, Yunnan, and Zhejiang, that have provincial-level PSUs and are authorized to work throughout China.