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• China: Civil Society

  The 30 year rebirth of civil society in China

  17 February 2018, by YE Yuan, 黎宇琳

  From mass organisations to civic activism and government grants: a short history of formal civil society in the People’s Republic of China.

  If a party or government cadre from the 70s travelled to the 21^st century, and they were able to see today’s philanthropic sector in China, perhaps they would pronounce the same phrase uttered by the old party cadre who visited the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone in the early 90s and couldn’t believe his eyes – ‘we strove so hard for years, just to go back (...)

• China: Civil Society

  China: How last year’s lottery revenue was spent

  9 February 2018, by YUN Li

  Lottery funds supported 300,000 philanthropy programs, covering areas including social welfare, philanthropy, social security, education, health, sport, culture, poverty alleviation, disaster relief and legal aid. With funding for charities increasing so rapidly, authorities and the public are (...)

• China: Civil Society

  China: New regulations on Social Organisations’ tax compliance

  2 February 2018, by HUILING Tang

  Civil society groups will be excluded from tenders and grant schemes if they do not submit tax returns and annual reports. CSOs have mushroomed in recent years, thanks to municipal and county outsourcing of social work activities in particular.

  The conditions applicable to Social Organisations (the most common form of Chinese CSOs) are set out in the new Regulation on Social Organisation Credit Information Management (《社会组织信用信息管理办法》).

  On the 24^th of January, the Ministry of Civil Affairs announced (...)

• China: Civil Society

  China: First urban philanthropy assessment system to be established in Shenzhen

  1 February 2018, by YUN Li

  Fang Tao, a member of the Standing Committee of the Shenzhen Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and executive vice-president of the Shenzhen Charity Federation, presented a proposal to build a comprehensive system of supervision and scientific evaluation (...)

• China: Civil Society

  China: Alibaba e-commerce platform reports 246m Yuan (US$39m) of online philanthropic donations

  22 January 2018, by YUN Li

  Ethical e-commerce in China is growing twice as fast as regular commerce. Over 6,500 online retailers donate more than 3% of their online income to philanthropic projects.
  The Alibaba Group has released the records of the charitable donations made by the owners of online stores on Alibaba’s (...)

• China: Civil Society

  The Top Stories of 2017 in Chinese Civil Society

  11 January 2018, by CORSETTI Gabriel

  The role of civil society organisations (locally known as “social organisations”) is expanding rapidly. State institutions are purchasing social work services from social organisations and regulating charitable fundraising. Some environmental CSOs have forced changes in investment decisions. (...)

• China: Civil Society

  Zhu Jiangang on the Development of Community Foundations in China

  30 June 2017, by HE Shuyue, 刘长春

  This is CDB’s translation of an article that originally appeared in 中国非公募基金会发展论坛. The article includes a summary of a talk given by Zhu Jiangang (朱健刚), executive president of the Public Charity Research Institute at Sun Yat-Sen University and deputy director general of the Guangdong Qian He Public Charity (...)

• China: Civil Society

  Chinese NGOs need to play a greater role in global governance: a Q&A with Wang Xingzui

  2 May 2017, by BING Luo, GROSSMAN Gregor, MCCARTHY Kelly

  In the context of growing calls for the charity sector to move in step with the One Belt, One Road initiative, China Development Brief (CDB) recently spoke with Mr.Wang Xingzui, the Executive Vice President of the China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation (CFPA) on why and how Chinese NGOs are (...)

• China: Civil Society

  The Chinese Design of the Charity Law

  20 April 2017, by SNAPE Holly

  It’s a little over a year since the Charity Law was passed by the National People’s Congress (NPC). During its first year, 13 provinces and municipalities have begun accrediting charities and 260 national or provincial level social organizations have been crowned with ‘charitable organization’ (...)

• China: Civil Society

  China: The Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM)

  25 February 2013

  Self-presentation of the Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM) picked from their website February 25, 2013. MISSION
  Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM) is a new nonprofit organization founded in Hong Kong in June 2005. SACOM originated from a (...)

• China: Civil Society

  Popular protests in Japan while government decides to restart nuclear plants

  20 June 2012, by Kyodo News, Mainichi Shimbun

  Over 1,300 Fukushima residents file complaint with prosecutors over nuclear crisis
  A group of 1,324 Fukushima residents presented a complaint to public prosecutors on June 11 over radiation damage from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, accusing 33 people including Tokyo Electric Power Co. (...)

• China: Civil Society

  Collective Submission of Chinese CSOs on the Rio+20 Zero Draft

  June 2012, by CSOs

  Part 1 Introduction: Context, Objective and Principles
  We are a group of Chinese Civil Society Organizations and individuals working day to day on the ground in supporting and implementing sustainable development goals and measures in China, including in the areas of water, forestry, climate (...)