NGOCN: what can Chinese NGOs do for left-behind children?
What did NGOs in China do wrong? Several factors that could stop the Bijie children suicide incident from happening.
2015-06-26
Road to School releases white paper on mental issues facing China’s left-behind children
A strikingly 10 million children in China can't meet their parents in a whole year.
2015-06-24
Growing Home: The Chinese NGO that Tells Bedtime Stories to Rural Boarding Students
CBD's Yang Jin profiles the NGO "Growing Home", which helps rural boarding school students by telling them bedtime stories
2015-06-22
Stay-behind or migrate? A sad childhood for 100 million Chinese children
Chinese newspaper Caixin writes that no country in the world has such a huge population of children that live away from their parents.They are the 60 million left-behind children in China’s rural areas and many are only able to meet…
2015-06-19
Survey on the living conditions of China’s 61 million left-behind children
The Beijing News writes that the four children who committed suicide in Bijie are indicative of the mental state and living conditions of China’s “left-behind children”. The number of “left-behind children” in Chinese rural areas is always on the rise…
2015-06-19
Solving the challenges facing ‘left-behind children’ requires efforts from everyone
On June 9th, four “left-behind children (留守儿童)” committed suicide in their home in Bijie, Guizhou. The tragic incident follows another three years ago, when five left-behind children died in Bijie after lighting a fire in a dustbin.
The tragedy has…
2015-06-15
Thinking Strategically: An Interview with Duan Tao of the Sino-Ocean Charity Foundation
An Interview with Duan Tao, Secretary General of the Sino-Ocean Charity Foundation, as part of the "Thinking Strategically about Civil Society Assistance in China" project
2015-04-08
Thinking Strategically: An Interview with Wang Yi of the China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation
An interview with Wang Yi of the China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation, as part of the "Thinking Strategically about Civil Society Assistance in China" series
2015-03-24
Thinking Strategically: An Interview with Howard Liu, OXFAM China Programme Director
An interview with Howard Liu, OXFAM China Programme Director, as part of the "Thinking Strategically about Civil Society Assistance in China" series
2015-03-23
China launches new plan for children development in impoverished areas
On January 15th, 2015, the State Council published the «Plan for the development of children in impoverished areas 2014 – 2020» that should benefit 40 million children. The plan aims at bringing the living conditions of these children up to national standards.
2015-01-16
PGS in China – A Development Tool for Local Organic Agriculture?
Cornelia Kirchner discusses the use of Participatory Guarantee Systems as a way to promote organic agriculture in China in light of her experience working with the Beijing Farmers Market.
2014-12-12
Beijing Organic Farmers Market
This article describes the origin and development of the Beijing Organic Farmers Market, a pioneering non-profit project aiming at providing organic farmers with direct access to Beijing's urban market.
2014-11-10
For the first time, the number of urban and rural residents with pension insurance decreases
Human Resources and Social Security departments recently released data from January to April which shows that 496,850,000 urban and rural people are insured, which 650,000 people less than the number recorded at the end of the 2013.
2014-06-23
Lin Lusheng: Let Education and Our Minds Return to a Natural State
CDB Associate Editor Guo Ting profiles Lin Lusheng, who has established progressive educational organizations and was selected by the Narada Foundation to be a Gingko Partner.
2014-02-21
Laos’ Ban Chim Village: The First Partnership Between a Chinese NGO and a Chinese Company Overseas
This article reports on the new trend of Chinese NGOs following companies overseas to monitor and work with them and other stakeholders to mitigate the social and environmental impact of Chinese investment on local communities abroad.
2012-11-21
Yang Yunbiao’s Brainchild: A Rural Cooperative in Anhui
CDB Senior Staff Writer, Guo Ting, delves into the fascinating world of rural cooperatives in this profile of an Anhui cooperative founded by Yang Yunbiao, a former rural rights-defense (weiquan) activist..
2012-10-15
NGO Participation in Disaster Relief : Profiles of Reconstruction After the Sichuan Earthquake
This is our last in a series of articles on NGO responses to disasters that we are making available in commemoration of the May 12, 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan. This article highlights the ongoing work of 10 NGO projects…
2012-05-28
Chinese Volunteers to Test the Water in Africa
This article profiles two Chinese volunteers who are in the first batch of volunteers to be sent overseas by China through the international organization, Volunteer Services Overseas (UK). These volunteers will participate in international poverty-relief and development efforts in Africa
2011-11-28
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