A report published by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) shows that a growing share of Chinese social organizations' funding is coming from Chinese sources and that Chinese foundations have replaced foreign foundations as the first funding supplier for the sector.
The Shenzhen 2014 Charity Fair was held a few months ago. In this article, Chen Qian'er looks back on the 2013 Fair which raised a few important questions for the meaning of these kind of events in China.
The teams who authored five Charity law drafts met in Beijing to share their thoughts on the future of this legislation. According to the head of the Peking University Center for NPOs law, Jin Jinping, since the NPC has already called for opinions on the Charity law bill, it may be possible that the actual law will be published next year.
In order to standardize international NGO activity in China, the State Council has submitted a draft legislation concerning "the Management of Foreign NGOs". Yang Huanning, vice-minister of Public Security has explained the bill to the 12th meeting of the 12th National People's Congress Stanading Committee.
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.
The 12th five year Plan against heavy metal pollution has been implemented for four years and has been overall efficient but is still facing "problems not to be ignored" according to the Ministry of the Environment.
In 2011, the Alibaba group founded the "Alibaba Philanthropic Foundation" and registered it with Civil Affairs with a base capital of fifty million yuan. Since then, the Alibaba group transfers a certain percentage of its annual profit to its foundation.
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...
This article examines the issue of social enterprises making money. Although these enterprises stress the importance of making money, they always have a more important goal.
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.
Zhang Fuqiu, lawyer of the 21 plaintiffs in the ConocoPhillips case, released an interview to Caixin, explaining the circumstances of the Bohai Bay incident, and its consequences for the local environment and communities.
This article explores the relationship between two phenomena in China, the children of migrants who have moved with their parents from rural areas to cities to find work (liudong ertong) and ‘left-behind children’ whose parents have moved to cities for work but have left them in rural areas (liushou ertong).