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Chinese donors send water generators to 5 Ethiopian schools

Over 2,000 Ethiopian elementary school students will soon get access to clean water thanks to five newly donated atmospheric water generators. The generators were donated last month by the China-Africa Leadership Development Institute of Tsinghua University (CALDI-THU), HurRain NanoTech, and…

Digital technologies have potential to transform charities

China’s government is comprehensively promoting digital transformation, accelerating the formation of a data-intensive society, where data empowers social entities to pursue a sustainable future. As crucial members of civil society, are Chinese charities ready to undertake digital transformation? According to…

Expert: China urgently needs ESG system

China urgently needs to establish an environmental, social and governance (ESG) framework in order to establish a green financial system to regulate sustainable investment behavior, to promote green and high-quality development of enterprises, and to achieve peak carbon and carbon…

Sewage industry has potential to reduce emissions

The concept of modern sewage treatment did not arrive in China until the early 20th century. The Shanghai North Sewage Treatment Plant established in 1923 was the first such facility in the country, covering an area of 0.84 hectares with…

China’s social workers play vital role in drug fight

China’s National Narcotic Control Committee released the “China Drug Situation Report 2021” on June 23, three days before the 35th International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. The report reveals that by the end of 2021, there were about…

Indicator system set to improve volunteering opportunities

China Youth Volunteer Association recently released announced the “Indicator System of Volunteer Service in Colleges and Universities (Trial)”, aiming to provide professional guidance for objective evaluation and effective improvement of volunteer work in colleges and universities. The indicator system takes…

How do Chinese media cover deforestation?

Chinese media has increased its coverage of environmental issues dramatically in the past decade. In recent years, coverage of climate change and carbon emissions has also started to make headlines. At the September 2020 United Nations General Assembly, President Xi…

Impact investing in China: challenges and opportunities

The following article is a contribution from Explorer “If impact investing is what we do, blended value is what we produce,” remarked impact investing scholars Jed Emerson and Antony Bugg-Levine. Impact investing aims to produce positive and measurable social-environmental impacts…

Tech lends a helping hand to China’s hearing impaired

During this year’s college entrance examination, a hearing-impaired candidate in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, was unable to pass the security checks to enter the exam room because of an in-ear implanted crystal. Fortunately, in less than 10 minutes, the candidate’s “silent…

Chinese NGO helps plant forest in Indonesia

China House and Conversation Action Network Borneo (CAN) in Indonesia have worked together since 2017, jointly establishing the Center for Orangutan Protection (COP) in 2020. Earlier this year, the center partnered with Fellow Village Community to carry out a planting…

Innovative measures set to help China achieve carbon goals

Many NGOs and social media accounts reposted CCTV’s advocacy article about carbon reduction on June 15, the 7th National Low Carbon Day, explaining to the public environmental concepts such as green carbon, blue carbon, and carbon emissions trading. The article…

17 departments issue new national climate strategy

Seventeen departments including the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE), National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Science and Technology and others jointly issued the “National Climate Change Adaptation Strategy 2035”, making overall plans to prepare the country to adapt…

Digitalization of NGOs: opportunities or challenges?

China’s charitable organizations received nearly 10 billion yuan ($1.48 billion) from over 10 billion donations made through online platforms in 2021. The 2016 Charity Law and two standards to regulate charitable organizations’ online public fundraising issued by the Ministry of…

Wang Jingjing interview: clean skies and water are the goal

Most of the time, Wang Jingjing’s day is incomplete without snapping some photos of the diverse species around her — from a strange caterpillar to some blooming wildflowers — and uploading them to Blue Map, an app launched by the…

New manual helps NGOs understand laws and regulations

According to open data released by the Ministry of Civil Affairs in May, the total number of charitable foundations in China has reached 9,061. Most of them do not have a long history, with less than 10 percent established before…

China Charity Ranking broadcast draws millions

Broadcast for three hours, China Philanthropy Times’ live event releasing the 19th (2022) China Charity Ranking drew more than 5.5 million online viewers. The event featured 46 guest speakers and was covered by over 280 media outlets across the country.…