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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

The Ministry of Public Security (MPS) now lists the provincial Department of Commerce as the Taiwan Trade Center’s Professional Supervisory Unit (PSU) in Liaoning. The Taiwan Trade Center confirmed to The NGO Project that the Department of Commerce is indeed its PSU. As The China NGO Project has written previously, the MPS frequently updates and corrects data in its database without notification.According to data from the Ministry of Public Security, the Liaoning Public Security Bureau...Read more

Two New Charts Tracking Temporary Activities

We’ve added two new charts to our suite of monthly data visualizations: one showing how many foreign NGOs have carried out multiple temporary activities, and one showing the number of temporary activities that have started each week this year. You can see these charts, along with our other temporary activity and representative office graphics, here.Read more

A Quick Look at the Most Active Chinese Partner Units

We’ve just published a brief analysis looking at those domestic Chinese organizations that have served as foreign NGOs’ temporary activity partners for four or more temporary activities. Check it out here to see which groups have been most active in this space.Read more
China Development Brief (CDB) has translated and published a statistical analysis of foreign NGO representative office registrations and temporary activity filings for the first nine months of the year. The analysis, originally published in Chinese by Tsinghua University researcher Huang Zhen Ping (黄真平), includes a detailed and careful look at some of the more interesting trends in the data, such as the percentage of foreign NGO representative offices carrying out their work nationwide, in multiple...Read more

Guangdong Public Security Bureau Talks Foreign NGOs with Cambodia; Beijing, Jiangxi, Chongqing, Shanghai Meet with Registered Foreign NGOs

Ministry of Public Security WeChat Posts—November 3-13, 2017
Today, Guangdong Public Security Bureau (PSB) Executive Vice Director Li Qingxiong met with Cambodian Member of Parliament Suos Yara, who visited the PSB as part of an inspection team related to the Foreign NGO Law. Li said he hoped Suos’ visit would advance the Guangdong PSB’s cooperation with foreign NGOs from neighboring countries. Li also explained that Guangdong’s physical location means it is a portal to the south, with more and more foreign NGOs active...Read more