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Hubei Public Security Bureau Discusses Foreign NGO Law at Local Universities, Beijing Meets Professional Supervisory Units, Shanghai Encourages a Foreign NGO to Register
Ministry of Public Security WeChat Posts—July 21-August 1, 2017
Today, the Guangxi and Shaanxi Public Security Bureau (PSB) Foreign NGO Management Offices issued registration certificates to the Guangxi Business Association of Canada and Plan International (United States), respectively.Read more
Cold hard cash—it’s an issue that has come up in many of our conversations about temporary activities. As we note in one of our FAQs, it can be quite pricey for foreign NGOs operating in China to compile all the documentation and authorizations required to file for a temporary activity. We’re hoping to speak with a range of NGOs with temporary activity experience and get a sense of how much it costs, on average, for...Read more
Andreas Fulda of the University of Nottingham has published a new article, “The Contested Role of Foreign and Domestic Foundations in the PRC: Policies, Positions, Paradigms, Power,” in the Journal of the British Association for Chinese Studies. Fulda explores how both international and domestic foundations navigate their work in the Chinese context, raising questions about how the Foreign NGO Law might affect grant-making in the PRC. The article is available for free on the journal’s...Read more
Contributor Tee Zhuo has done a deep dive on the statistics provided by the Ministry of Public Security for the six first months of Foreign NGO Law implementation. Among his findings are that representative offices tend to skew toward trade with regard to their field of work, and that temporary activities are dominated by Hong Kong-based NGOs. The full analysis is available here.Read more
To better understand the Ministry of Public Security’s publicly-available information on Foreign NGOs’ representative offices and temporary activities, The China NGO Project has created a series of data visualizations that allow readers to explore the data in different formats and across different dimensions. We plan to update these visualizations on a regular basis, so check back again for updates.Read more