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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

From soldier to NGO practitioner: Chen Yang

May 29 is the International Day of UN Peacekeepers. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, since China’s first participation in a UN peacekeeping mission in 1990, nearly 50,000 Chinese officers and soldiers have joined UN operations in more than…
2022-06-02

China expands national carbon monitoring network

China is about to establish a national carbon monitoring network covering major cities in major regions, according to the country’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE). “With the successful launch of the atmospheric environment monitoring satellite on April 16, China…
2022-06-02

Corporate donations: how firms can benefit from tax deductions

The following is guidance translated from information published by the State Administration of Taxation. Basic concepts: Charitable donations are made by enterprises through charitable social organizations or county-level and higher levels of government and their constituent departments, for charitable causes…
2022-06-01

Declining biodiversity will have economic impact, expert says

When the biodiversity crisis and the climate crisis intertwine, it will seriously threaten the stability of the ecosystem on which human beings depend, and thus seriously threaten the survival of humankind, according to Lan Hong, deputy director, professor and doctoral…
2022-05-31

Beijing court uses cases to promote conservation awareness

On May 22, International Day for Biological Diversity, Beijing Fangshan District People’s Court introduced two typical cases related to biodiversity conservation to the public using social media. Case 1 In early January 2020, the defendant, Gao, purchased a Sulcata tortoise…
2022-05-27

Corporate foundations and the charity sector: a case study

The Beijing ByteDance Public Welfare Foundation has selected 15 projects for its newly launched 2022 Social Work Venture Capital Plan, in order to support social organizations in Beijing. The plan is one of the key focuses of the ByteDance Public…
2022-05-25

Chinese donations keep conservation work going in Afghanistan

It has been more than 10 years since Shao Xuecheng did field work in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, as a PhD student researching the country’s archaeology and art. After completing his research he stayed in Afghanistan to help protect and restore cultural…
2022-05-23
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