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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…
2022-06-23

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…
2022-06-22

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…
2022-06-21

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…
2022-06-21

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…
2022-06-20

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…
2022-06-17

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…
2022-06-17

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.…
2022-06-16

From loggers to guardians of the forests

China has stepped-up afforestation efforts and completely stopped the commercial logging of forests in the past decade. Large-scale tree planting projects have been carried out all over the country, with a total of 1.17 billion mu (193 million acres) of…
2022-06-15

Pandemic makes escaping domestic violence harder

The sudden lockdown due to the new surge of Covid cases disrupted Liang Xin’s plan. Liang, who lives in Shanghai, turned 50 this year. She has recently been granted a divorce from her violent husband after calling the police several…
2022-06-14

Guangdong issues rules for community social organizations

Editor’s note: Guangdong is known for piloting new policies and played a vital role in China’s economic reforms at the end of the 1970s. Guangdong Provincial Department of Civil Affairs recently issued the “Guangdong Province Community Social Organization Classification and…
2022-06-14

Professor: improve China’s NGO evaluation system

Professor Zhu Zhaonan from Beijing Qiyue Philanthropy Service Center recently gave a speech at an event hosted by Nonprofit-Evaluation. Zhu said that NGOs, or non-profit organizations, have experienced a period of great development worldwide including in mainland China in the…
2022-06-13

Li Jiete: empowering women through art

Li Jiete is the founder of Banying, an organization based in Beijing dedicated to empowering Chinese women through creative work. CDB recently spoke to Li about her work, women’s rights, and how art therapy can help people who’ve experienced trauma.…
2022-06-13

New initiative to push sustainable urban development

In line with the common goal of green innovation to help sustainable urban development, China Alliance of Social Value Investment (CASVI) and Shenzhen Green Finance Association is hosting this year’s social innovation acceleration camp. Supported by the United Nations Development…
2022-06-10

Large donations exceeded 1.22 billion yuan in April

April saw roughly 40 large donations of 10 million yuan ($1.5 milllion) or more from enterprises and individuals, totaling more than 1.22 billion yuan in total, according to the China Philanthropy Times. Of the four grand donations (100 million yuan…
2022-06-08

OECD reveals preliminary development data for last year

The Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) recently published its preliminary data of official development assistance (ODA). It showed that, in 2021 total ODA amounted to $178.9 billion, representing 0.33 percent of the…
2022-06-08
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