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Check here for updates from our editors on new developments in regulation, operation and activities of Foreign NGOs in China as well as updates to the China NGO Project site
China Development Brief (CDB) is conducting a survey of foreign NGOs working—or hoping to work—in mainland China.Read more
The latest data through the end of July 2018 is now available in our suite of monthly graphics. Of note this month:The pace of registrations is back up to where it had been for most of 2018 (around 15 to 17 registrations per month); the big dip in registrations in June 2018 did not carry over into July.There are more than 400 registered representative offices, and more than 900 temporary activities had been initiated by the end of July.Read more
Over on the main ChinaFile site, Dr. Shawn Shieh offers his view on the current environment and possibilities for civil society under Xi Jinping's effort to “remake civil society in the Party-state’s image.” Shieh wonders if Xi's grand ambitions for the Party in China and for China in the world can be fully realized without an independent civil society to help ensure a modicum of government accountability. He also takes stock of Chinese civil society...Read more
The policy environment for domestic NGOs; the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals; foreign NGOs and Taiwan; and the #MeToo movement. . .Read more
The Ministry of Civil Affairs published this notice in June 2018. It was translated by China Development Brief and first appeared on its website.Notice from the Ministry of Civil Affairs regarding “The Work Method for the Ministry of Civil Affairs to Process Applications to Establish Professional Supervisory Units for Foreign NGOs' Representative Offices (Trial)”Foreign NGOs:“The Work Method for the Ministry of Civil Affairs to Process Applications to Establish Professional Supervisory Units for Foreign NGOs’ Representative...Read more