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China’s Ministry of Public Security recently released an updated list of approved Professional Supervisory Units (PSUs) for foreign NGOs seeking to register a representative office in mainland China. The 2019 list (which the China NGO Project has translated) is the first update to the original list released in December 2016. It includes a number of new potential PSUs and several changes to possible fields of work. The new list also reflects changes to agencies’ names...Read more
Xinmin Evening News, a Shanghai metro paper put out by the Chinese Communist Party Shanghai Municipal Committee, published an article on July 13 asserting that American NGOs plotted recent demonstrations in Hong Kong against a controversial extradition bill. The article, entitled “Cultivating ‘Hong Kong Independence’ Elements and Masterminding Anti-China Incidents . . . [We] Strip Away the ‘Painted Skin’ of These American NGOs,” names the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and the Open Society Foundations...Read more
Provincial PSBs Emphasize Health and Education Work for Foreign NGOs
Ministry of Public Security WeChat Posts—May 30-June 5, 2019
In light of the third anniversary of the adoption of the Foreign NGO Law, the Tianjin Municipality PSB Foreign NGO Management Office paid visits to local government agencies, universities, and foreign NGOs that are based in China as part of a week-long effort to further deepen the understanding and public awareness of the law.Read more
A recent report from China Development Brief (CDB) discusses how some foreign NGOs are choosing to carry out multiple, long-term temporary activities as an alternative to registering for a representative office. Pointing to a decline in the number of new representative offices from 2017 to 2018, and to the increase in new temporary activity filings over the same time period, CDB suggests that many foreign NGOs prefer to file for temporary activities because of its...Read more
Thanks to the PSB in Tianjin, a New Registration in Zhejiang, and Youth Exchanges in the Greater Bay Area
Ministry of Public Security WeChat Posts—May 15, 2019
Recently, the Zhejiang PSB Foreign NGO Management Office issued a registration certificate to the China-Africa Chamber of Commerce representative office in Huzhou. The PSB congratulated the China-Africa Chamber of Commerce and pledged to continue strengthening management services, to ensure the organization’s ability to carry out activities that promote China-Africa economic and cultural exchange as well as activities relating to trade and investment. At the same time, the PSB expressed its hope that the NGO will...Read more