Southern Metropolis Daily – Government prioritizes social orgs with rating of 3A and above for contracting

By Wu Runkai (吴润凯), Southern Metropolis Daily (南方都市报), February 5, 2013

In Huizhou, Guangdong, there are now 1,698 registered social organizations, a number which has increased by roughly 50 percent in the past couple of years due to new regulations which allow organizations to register directly, dropping an earlier requirement that organizations locate a supervising unit. With such a dramatic increase in the number of organizations, pressure on the Civil Affairs Bureau to manage these organizations has increased considerably. The CAB’s next step is to apply an evaluation system that will rate social organizations, determining their qualification for government procurement of services, tax deductions, and other benefits.