Recently, the Guangdong Public Security Bureau (PSB) Foreign NGO Management Office received an award for its innovative work in promoting the law. Guangdong’s council for “Who Enforces the Law, Who Promotes the Law” (谁执法谁普法) and “Study the Constitution, Publicize the Constitution” (学宪法宣宪法) awarded the PSB a prize as one of the “Province-Wide Top Ten Innovative Programs in ‘Who Enforces the Law, Who Promotes the Law’” (全省‘谁执法谁普法’十大创新创先项目). Those in attendance at the ceremony included the the secretary of Guangdong’s Politics and Law Commission as well as the head of the provincial Justice Department.
In order to standardize foreign NGO management, the Jiangsu PSB Foreign NGO Management office recently held a conference for foreign NGO representative offices registered in the province. Seven NGOs, including the Cyrus Tang Foundation (United States) and The Netherlands Trade Promotion Council, discussed their experiences carrying out activities since registration and made suggestions about how the PSB could improve its management work. The PSB also helped decode policies related to the Foreign NGO Law and discussed the annual report and annual plan processes. NGO representatives each spoke of their intent to ever more stringently abide by the Foreign NGO Law and to file their annual reports and plans in a timely manner.
The Tianjin PSB Foreign NGO Management office recently visited Tianjin University to publicize the Foreign NGO Law and investigate the school’s related management issues. In attendance were relevant individuals from the international exchange, scientific research, and safety and security departments, as well as representatives from the school’s education foundation, youth league, and student affairs office, in addition to others. Each department spoke about its Foreign NGO Law-related responsibilities, processes, and difficulties. Tianjin University representatives stated that the school would make its internal foreign NGO management mechanisms more robust and also strengthen coordination and conformity among departments. The PSB indicated that it intends to analyze issues related to higher education institutions’ management of foreign NGOs to make exchange and cooperation more convenient.