Reports

Earlier this year an elderly man exercising at the Shekou Sports Center in Shenzhen suddenly collapsed after suffering a cardiac arrest. Luckily, the center was equipped with an automated external defibrillator (AED) which was used to save his life. The…

Kunshan Blue Sky Rescue (BSR) recently helped a 76-year-old woman who had been missing for five days find her family, demonstrating BSR’s mission of saving lives regardless of difficulty.   On Nov 20, the Kunshan BSR team received a report that…

The Natural Resource and Planning Departments of Hunan Province and the prefectural-level city of Yiyang recently formed three teams of volunteers to take on duties at the front lines of a drought taking place in and around the city, offering…

China Environmental Grant-makers Alliance Report 2021 was officially released at COP27 in Egypt, marking the fourth year of China Environmental Grant-makers Alliance’s (CEGA) annual reports. The 2021 report summarizes the grant-making practices of CEGA members and 58 non-CEGA member foundations…

Sichuan Youth Volunteers, the Sichuan Emergency Volunteer Service Association, the Meishan Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League and the Meishan Emergency Management Bureau held a training session on flood control and relief in Meishan, Sichuan Province, from Nov 3…

A community in Shanghai’s Hongqiao town published a Risk Identification Checklist for Minors in early November, the first checklist of its kind to be published in the city. According to official records, there are currently 8,320 minors in the Hongqiao…

On Nov 3, the Department of Emergency Management, the Central Civilization Office, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League issued a document on promoting emergency relief. According to the document, China aims to…

Following the conclusion of the 20th Party Congress, the Ministry of Civil Affairs (MCA) announced that China is set to establish its first group of grassroots governance research centers on Nov 8. The announcement came against the backdrop of the…

On Oct 26, 2022, China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs held its regular fourth quarter news conference, where Li Banghua, deputy director-general of the ministry’s Department of Elderly Care Services, revealed that according to the latest survey results, more than half…

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The Ministry of Civil Affairs (MCA) recently released a new list of suspected illegal social organizations (NGOs). The organizations are as follows: -China Organic Products Association (中国有机产品协会); -China Ergonomics Research Association (中国人体工程学研究协会); -China Construction Industry Association (中国建设施工行业协会); -Chinese Dance Artists…

The 14th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Wetlands (COP 14) was held from Nov 5 to 13, simultaneously in Wuhan, China (main venue) and Geneva, Switzerland (branch venue), with attendees participating both online and offline. During the…