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The number of college graduates in 2022 will reach a record high of 10.76 million — an increase of 1.67 million from last year, according to data from the Ministry of Education. In addition to government departments and businesses, this…

The Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Civil Affairs recently issued the “Interim Measures for the Recognition and Cancellation of Charitable Organizations in Shanghai”, providing guidance to local charities on how to legally register as well as clarifying the process for canceling…

The Symposium on Social Organizations Helping College Graduates to Find Employment in Urban and Rural Communities, organized by the Social Organization Administration of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Beijing Civil Affairs Bureau, was held on July 1. Eight…

To better promote rural revitalization in China, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA) is looking to select “hundreds of counties, thousands of townships and ten thousand villages” for its rural revitalization demonstration effort. The demonstration project is a…

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) used to be the only way that China’s carbon offset projects could participate in carbon emissions trading. However, in 2013, when China’s main purchaser, the EU, stopped accepting CERs from a number of developing countries,…

The Social Construction Regulations of Shenzhen Special Economic Zone (“the regulations”) were recently approved by the Standing Committee of the Seventh Shenzhen Municipal People’s Congress, and will come into force on Aug 1. The regulations involve livelihood support, social governance,…

China’s Supreme People’s Court recently released a set of new provisions, further clarifying what counts as domestic violence and expanding the scope of application of a personal safety protection order (habeas corpus). The “Provisions on Issues Concerning the Application of…

On the first anniversary of the opening of the China Carbon Emission Trade Exchange (CCETE) on July 16, the China International Carbon Trading Conference was held with a combination of online and offline events in Shanghai, organized by Shanghai Environment…

State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC) recently completed the annual inspection of the Qinghai-Tibet interconnection project, showing that the underground permafrost has been in a stable condition since the project was put into operation a decade ago. Known as “the…

A decade ago, in order to provide accommodation and education to disadvantaged children living in the Daliang Moutains area, social organizations partnered with the local government to help plan the establishment of a charity school in Meigu County, Sichuan Province,…

The Ministry of Civil Affairs (MCA) recently issued an administrative warning to the Chou Pei-yuan Foundation. The foundation was established in 1993 in honor of Chou, a Chinese theoretical physicist and politician who served as president of Peking University. Over…

As of June 30, China has built over 21,000 township or street-level social service centers, employing more than 53,000 social workers, according to the Ministry of Civil Affairs (MCA) at its 2022 mid-year meeting. Seven provinces have achieved full coverage…

In order to promote a better understanding of China’s “dual carbon” goals and to form a joint force to help achieve them, the China Association for NGO Cooperation (Cango) and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Beijing Representative Office this month…

Sixteen government departments jointly issued a notice regarding the action plan (the notice) for the implementation of the National Standardization Development Outline on July 12, which was initiated by the State Council last October. The notice clarifies 33 specific tasks…

Funded by Beijing ByteDance Public Welfare Foundation and implemented by Beijing Children’s Legal Aid and Research Center, China’s capital launched the first part of the “National Demonstrative Minor Protection Social Organization Cultivation Project”. The initiative aims to provide legal services…

The Supreme People’s Procuratorate recently released data to summarize the implementation of the public interest litigation system over the past five years. This system was officially established on July 1, 2017, following the revision of the Civil Procedure Law and…

Seven departments including the Ministry of Ecology and Environment and the National Development and Reform Commission jointly issued the Implementation Plan for Synergistic Efficiency of Pollution Reduction and Carbon Reduction (the Plan) on June 10. The Plan emphasizes the importance…

The Capital Municipal Social Construction Leading Group recently reviewed and approved the Opinions on Promoting the Development of Social Enterprises (the Opinions), according to which, more than 300 social enterprises will be identified by the end of the 14th Five-Year…