The State Council Recently published the “Leading Opinion Concerning the Healthy Development of the Charitable Sector”. The author looks at the implications of this document, the first such legislation launched by the Chinese central government.
Tsinghua University and Peking University jointly published expert recommendations for the «Charity Law». This report touches upon all the important matters concerning charity in China, such as donations, property management, trust funds, charitable services, branches of foreign organizations in China...
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.
The Shenzhen Shihui Lingqian Gongcheng Charity Foundation (深圳市施惠零铅工程慈善基金会) had its registration repealed due to an apparently illegal misappropriation of 3.03 million Yuan.
The authors analyze the controversy created by Guangzhou's new regulations on the management of social organizations and their impact on unregistered NGOs.
Vice Minister of Civil Affairs Dou Yupei pointa out the contribution of charitable organizations as being important to delivering social assistance to those in need.
The draft legislation in Guangzhou city outlining new measures to punish “illegal” NGOs has stirred fears among intellectuals and the civil society sector.
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.
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
Fu Tao interviews the Advisor for the new Chengdu NGO Service Park, a platform established by local party and government departments to provide incubation services to fledgling NGOs.
This article is part two of Fu Tao’s profile of the Chengdu NGO Service Park, one of a number of government-initiated platforms being established to provide support to fledgling NGOs.
To truly be considered 'grassroots', the author, Feng Yongfeng, believes that an organization should express the multi-colored nature of society, and have 'serving the community' as its mission
The Ministry of Civil Affairs published its own top ten list for the social organization sector in 2013, with most items focused on policy developments.
CDB Editor, Liu Haiying, interviews Michael Busgen, long-time observer of China’s NGO sector, who offers some refreshing commentary on the past, present and future of China’s NGOs.