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Combatting Desertification in Inner Mongolia, Talking with the Federation of Trade Unions in Xinjiang
Ministry of Public Security WeChat Posts—April 17, 2019
Opening ceremonies for the “2019 International Youth Prevention of Desertification Project” took place in Dalad banner in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region’s Erdos city. The event was co-sponsored by the Korean-Chinese Culture Youth Association (Future Forest) and the Dalad Banner Chinese Communist Youth League Committee, and was filed as a temporary activity in accordance with the law. Former U.N. Secretary-General Ban-Ki Moon, President of the Korean-Chinese Culture Youth Association Quan Bingxuan, Deputy Secretary of the Communist...Read more
The following table combines the Ministry of Public Security’s (MPS’s) 2019 list of approved Professional Supervisory Units, parts of China Law Translate’s translation of the 2017 list of approved Professional Supervisory Units, and The China NGO Project’s own translations.The English translation of the 2017 list, in a sortable table, can be found here.The MPS included an explanation of the list alongside its release. This is included, and translated into English, below. The translation is an...Read more
Using the example of “mutual aid health communities” in China, contributor Caitlin Schultz digs into the questions surrounding entities known as “social enterprises”—hybrid organizations that do not fit neatly into either for-profit or non-profit categories. How are such organizations classified, or how will they be classified, in China’s regulatory landscape? Will Beijing view them as charitable organizations, falling under the scope of 2016’s Charity Law? Or might Beijing classify them as businesses and regulate them...Read more
On April 29, the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) published an updated list of approved Professional Supervisory Units (PSUs) and fields of activity for foreign NGOs working in China. This is the MPS’ first formal update to the original PSU list, published in December 2016. As the MPS noted in a related WeChat post, the 2019 list includes a number of new PSUs, such as the Chinese Communist Party International Liaison Department, the Civil Aviation...Read more
The People’s Republic of China’s (P.R.C.’s) most authoritative media outlet, The People’s Daily, published an article on April 19 describing two foreign NGOs as having posed threats to “political security” in recent years. The article, entitled “National Security Entities Make Public Three Cases of Endangering Political Security,” outlines the NGOs’ alleged violations and the ways in which the groups posed a threat to the P.R.C. A third case in the article is related to the...Read more