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‘Scientific’ Programming, Annual Plan Guidance, and Foreign NGO Law Publicity
Ministry of Public Security WeChat Posts—November 16, 2018
November 16, 2018:Recently, the Fujian Public Security Bureau (PSB) Foreign NGO Management Office issued a registration certificate to BSK International (Germany). The PSB congratulated BSK on their newly-registered Xiamen representative office, indicated it would coordinate with the group’s Professional Supervisory Unit (PSU) to provide legal guidance and policy support, and expressed its hope that the group would maintain good communications with its PSU and conduct its activities in accordance with the law. BSK thanked the...Read more
How Outsiders View ‘Civil Society,’ the Stages of Chinese Charity, and Partnering with Domestic NGOs
A Roundup of Recent NGO-Related Content from around the Web
Several of the recommendations made during the UN Human Rights Council’s recent Universal Periodic Review of China’s human rights record pertain to civil society and NGOs. Bin Xu, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Emory University, discusses how the Sichuan earthquake affected civic engagement in China, and also explains the differences in domestic and international perceptions of “civil society.” Huo Weiya, founder of a charity-related social enterprise, writes in China Development Brief that the development of the People’s Republic...Read more
U.S.-based non-profit Give2Asia hosted a webinar in October on foreign grant-making in China. University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Mark Sidel joined Give2Asia’s Adam King to discuss the state of play nearly two years after the Foreign NGO Law went into effect. Here are the highlights.Read more
According to information on the Ministry of Public Security website, the Japan External Trade Organization (日本贸易振兴机构, JETRO) de-registered its representative office in Guangzhou, as of June 29, 2018. Until de-registering, it was permitted to operate in Fujian, Guangdong, and Hainan provinces as well as in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on trade-related issues. The Guangdong Department of Commerce served as its Professional Supervisory Unit. JETRO was among the first several dozen Foreign NGOs to get registered...Read more
Earlier this year, the China-based organization NGOCN released the results of a survey to determine how friendly the policy environment is for non-governmental charity groups across China. NGOCN surveyed domestic Chinese non-profits in 10 cities, compiling results from 680 completed questionnaires and around 80 focus group sessions. With these results, NGOCN created the below infographic, which The China NGO Project has translated into English from the original Chinese. (China Development Brief has also published an...Read more