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Any foreign NGO seeking to register a representative office or file for a temporary activity in China must prepare a number of official documents in the location where it is headquartered. These documents must be notarized and authenticated in the NGO’s home country. However, the steps for this process—particularly the order in which they should be completed, and the precise administrative requirements—are not clearly spelled out in any of the Ministry of Public Security’s (MPS’s)...Read more
Thanks to the Ministry of Public Security’s website, we have a clear picture of which foreign NGOs were able to work in China in 2017 under the Foreign NGO Law, either through establishing representative offices or carrying out temporary activities. But without solid data from the years before the law went into effect, how can we know what kinds of changes the law has engendered? We’ve tried to answer that question as best we can...Read more
2017 in Numbers: Temporary Activities and Registered Offices
Foreign NGO Data Visualizations
Our suite of data visualizations now includes data from January to December of 2017.Of note, Anhui registered its first foreign NGO representative office in December, Love Without Borders Foundation (United States).You can see the full set of graphics, including information about both representative offices and temporary activities, here.Read more
A year after the Foreign NGO Law’s promulgation, Betram Lang of Goethe University asks why European civil society seems relatively quiescent about the new legal regime. The answer may lie in the wide range of interests belied by the singular “European” label, and in some groups’ use of less formal exchange mechanisms to continue work in China. Read the full analysis here.Read more
During our year-end review of 2017’s official Ministry of Public Security data on foreign NGOs in China, we came across several interesting tidbits that didn’t fit into stories elsewhere on the site. Rather than holding onto them into 2018, we decided to simply publish them so that you’ll be able to use them as you see fit in the coming months.Read more