Governance

Ma Zhengzhou: An AIDS Relief Practitioner on the Frontline

As part of her series on NGOs in Anhui, Guo Ting tells the bittersweet story of an AIDS relief practitioner’s ultimately successful efforts to set up a Chi Heng Foundation office in Anhui province, register it as a NGO and deliver financial assistance to HIV-infected families in the area.

2014-11-30

The Hebei governor calls on 13 cities to uphold “APEC Blue”

The article describes the measures laid out in Hebei province to preserve the air quality during the APEC summit

2014-11-12

The storm created by Guangzhou’s “illegal organizations”

The authors analyze the controversy created by Guangzhou's new regulations on the management of social organizations and their impact on unregistered NGOs.

2014-11-11

Guangzhou stipulates that NGOs will have to report foreign funding

Guangzhou has revised its "measures on the management of social organizations" after a stricter draft version triggered public concerns

2014-11-07

“Working rules on banning illegal social organizations (draft)”: a discussion

NGOCN reports on an event which brought media, lawyers, NGOs, and government representatives together to discuss the "Working Rules on Banning Illegal Social Organizations (draft)" published by the Guangzhou city government at the end of last month.

2014-11-03

Understanding the Fourth Plenum: No rule of law without independent trials

Legal experts say that an independent trial system depends on the strength of the CCP’s efforts to enforce it.

2014-10-30

Does launching activities as an NGO without being registered with civil affairs make you an illegal social organization?

The draft legislation in Guangzhou city outlining new measures to punish “illegal” NGOs has stirred fears among intellectuals and the civil society sector.

2014-10-23

Editorial: When public interest organizations run into “hidden rules”

In this Editorial, CDB's Fu Tao discusses the unwritten rules Chinese public interest organizations have to deal with when operating and discusses the cases of the Shanghai United Foundation (Lianqian) and of the Nanjing NGO Justice For All.

2014-10-19

Government purchasing of services could become a new disaster area for corruption

Nationwide public spending on services has experienced many problems due to financial management malpractice. These include the violation of existing laws, market monopolization, and deals conducted in secrecy.

2014-09-30

Please consider NPOs, an important and growing sector

The author explains that a strong third sector is essential to favor the development of a strong and healthy society and stresses that the government should encourage initiatives whichi goal is to nurture NPOs.

2014-09-15

Citizen Analysts: China’s Data Revolution

Tucker Van Aken discusses transparency in China and the way Open Government Information (OGI) regulations have brought new opportunities for civil society groups.

2014-08-19

The public service organizations’ pension system reform will be implented nationwide within three years

Sources indicate that the public service organizations' pension system reform will be directly implemented nationwide instead of going through the usual process of being implemented through a regional pilot project first

2014-08-08

Chinese companies counterfeit environmental protection data

In order to receive subsidies for high standards of environmental protective measures, Chinese companies have been falsifying their data.

2014-07-28

Ministry of education “six red lines” should become “teachers’ moral bottom line”

The Ministry of education has recently issued new regulations, known as the “six red lines” (六条红线), which strictly prohibit teachers from activities such as accepting gifts, money etc. These regulations have been issued in order to combat the growing moral degradation in many Chinese schools today.

2014-07-22

Barely 8% Beijing foundations publish information on the way they spend their funds

According to the Regulations on the management of foundations (基金会管理条例) and to the measures on the management of foundations' information (基金会信息管理办法), Chinese foundations have to publish annual reports.

2014-07-10

People-oriented Urbanization? Three events in May

CDB intern Martina Poletti reports on three events in May that discussed making China’s urbanization more sustainable.

2014-07-08

China’s Supreme People’s Court rolls out measures to strengthen environmental trial process

A specialised environment court was set up on July 3 to further this aim, with serving judges being reshuffled to its top positions at the end of June to prepare for its inauguration.

2014-07-08

Guangzhou: NGOs are now permitted to have offices in private residences

On June 16, Guangzhou published a new regulation, the “Guangzhou guidelines on social organization Management”, cancelling the registration funding requirement for civil non-enterprise organizations and allowing them to have their office in private residences.

2014-06-19

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