How Many NGOs Are There Really in China?
Observers often speak of hundreds of thousands or even millions of NGOs scattered across the country. But what basis do these estimates have?
2019-08-02
Alipay issues first-ever electronic invoice for an individual donation
On April 11, a woman in Beijing received the first electronic invoice for an individual donation issued by an Internet donation platform in China.
The invoice was issued for a donation to the “Send a Blind Child a Book” (我送盲童一本书)…
2019-04-18
40 Years of Chinese Charity in Different Phases
A personal attempt to summarise the course of the last 40 years of philanthropy in China, from the Reform and Opening Up until the present day.
2018-11-02
First China Charity Credit List Released
On the 3rd of September, a press conference was held in Tsinghua University to mark the release of the China’s Top Trustworthy Charities of 2018, China’s first charity credit list.
The list was jointly completed by the Tsinghua University Charity…
2018-09-07
How China’s new individual income tax amendment affects charitable donations
On the 31th of August, the fifth session of the 13th National People’s Congress’s standing committee passed an amendment act on the Individual Income Tax Law. The newly revised Individual Income Tax Law will come into effect in January 2019.…
2018-09-04
Founder of Serve for China Qin Yuefei accused of wrongdoing
Qin Yuefei, representative of the local People’s Congress for Hunan province and founder of the non-profit “Serve for China” (黑土麦田公益), has recently faced accusations of multiple counts of ambiguous financial activities and lack of personal and organisational transparency.
Over the…
2018-08-21
Online public fundraising platforms raised nearly 1 billion RMB in the first half of 2018
Since 2016, the Ministry of Civil Affairs has been endeavoring to regularize online fundraising. This month, the first 11 online public fundraising platforms officially designated by the ministry for charity organizations to fundraise went through a statistical assessment. The assessment,…
2018-08-13
Report: over half of public-fundraising foundations received no income in 2017
Out of the over 200 foundations registered with the Ministry of Civil Affairs, 184 foundations (including 99 non-public fundraising ones and 85 public fundraising ones) had issued their annual reports for 2017 by April 20. The Charity Times has analyzed…
2018-04-25
An overview of the 2017 annual reports of China’s online fundraising platforms
China’s Charity Law, passed in 2016, stipulates that all charitable organisations must release fundraising information only on official platforms recognised by the Civil Affairs Department of the State Council. A year and a half after 12 organizations passed the first…
2018-03-14
First urban philanthropy assessment system to be established in Shenzhen
Fang Tao, a member of the Standing Committee of the Shenzhen Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and executive vice-president of the Shenzhen Charity Federation, presented a proposal to build a comprehensive system of supervision and scientific…
2018-02-01
75 social groups and 29 social service institutions accredited as charities in China
According to the publicly available statistics, as of the end of June 2017, there were 1245 organizations that had officially been accredited as charities (慈善组织) in China, including 1141 foundations, 75 social groups (社会团体) and 29 social service institutions (社会服务机构).…
2017-08-25
British man starts soup kitchen for the homeless in Xi’an
An English businessman named Tony who started a charity in Xi’an has been the focus of various reports in the Chinese media throughout the years. He recently gave a talk about himself and his Yellow River Soup Kitchen organization on…
2017-07-13
Regulations on the annual management expenditure of charitable organizations released
New regulations on the annual management expenditure of charitable organizations were released on the website of the Ministry of Civil Affairs (MCA) on October 20th. These regulation were formulated by the MCA, the Ministry of Finance and the State Administration…
2016-10-21
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