Relations between the world’s two largest economies look to be entering a new phase of turbulence after the US punctured Chinese celebrations of the anniversary of Hong Kong’s return by unveiling sanctions against a Chinese bank linked to North Korea and a major arms sale to Taiwan.
Today, the head of the Yunnan Public Security Bureau Foreign NGO Management Office met with representatives of MSI Professional Services (Hong Kong) and Plan International (United States). MSI thanked the Yunnan office for its guidance and warm service during the registration process. Plan International got further details on the registration process.
Included in this Depth of Field column are stories of love, community, remembrance, and the future, told through the discerning eyes of some of China’s best photojournalists. Among them, the lives of African migrants in Guangzhou, seven years inside the life of a Shandong peasant, the journey of a transgender woman from rural Yunnan, and what’s ahead for a new special economic zone south of Beijing.
On June 28, the Ministry of Public Security added more than 30 new foreign NGO representative offices to its running tally, bringing the total of approved offices to 132.
The following includes links to the official forms (in Chinese), as listed on the Ministry of Public Security website, which are necessary for compliance with both the representative office registration and temporary activity parts of China’s Foreign NGO Law. (Please note that all links to the official forms automatically begin downloads of the forms as Microsoft Word documents from the Ministry of Public Security website.) Below the links to official forms, we have provided unofficial English translations of each form, available as PDFs. We have also included a brief description of the type of information requested on each form. Update: As of July 2019, links to the official forms in Chinese are no longer available. We will update the links as soon as we are able.
Fashion photographer Zeng Ge returned to his family’s region of Chaoshan (Teochew) in southern China, where observance of traditional festivals is particularly vibrant. Zeng’s color-soaked images survey the God Pageant Ceremony of Chaoshan during the first month of the lunar year. With opera, parades, pig sacrifice, and firecracker displays, the series of ceremonies encompasses ritual remembrance of ancestors and prayers for a good year.
Photographer Yang Wenbin is a student at Communication University of China. His school experience inspired him to start the long-term project “College Society,” about student organizations and their often unspoken social codes. Yang sees college as an intermediate space between exam-oriented student life and adult society. He observes his peers during their complex transformation from student to adult, and ultimately ends up deep in self-reflection about his own transition into this new life.
Photographer Liu Xingzhe takes a rare look at Bitcoin “mining” in a mountainous and remote region of Sichuan province. The essay was recently also published on ChinaFile. You can find it here.
While some in the communities in the Xiong’an New Area fear the future they see coming, photographer Wang Dansui tells another story: one of hope and opportunity for the area’s millennials. She photographed six young people who are taking advantage of the economic growth of a newly designated special economic zone that some hope may become a new Shenzhen.
While Beijing has undergone explosive growth over the last decade, a new district is now feeling some of the same growing pains. Xiong’an New Area, which comprises three counties in nearby Hebei province, has been designated the third state-level special economic zone after Shenzhen and Shanghai Pudong. Photographer Wu Huiyuan documented the lives of locals, business owners, and residents who are facing rapid change and the fear their communities will be dismantled.
