Yunnan Social Organizations Will be Able to Directly Register This Year

Yunnan province announced it would carry out a new social management plan for this year, and allow social organizations working in the public welfare, charitable, and social services areas to register directly with Civil Affairs. It also called for more government contracting to social organizations. Similar to the experiment in Guangdong, social organizations registering at the provincial level would not need a professional supervising unit, only a professional guidance unit. What this means in practice, however, remains to be seen.