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German Political Foundations Register in Beijing
Ministry of Public Security WeChat Posts—May 23, 2017
On May 23, the Beijing Public Security Bureau’s Foreign NGO Management Office presented four German organizations with their representative office registration certificates: Konrad-Adenauer Stiftung, Heinrich Böll Foundation, Rosa Luxembourg Stiftung, and Hanns Seidel Stiftung. As The China NGO Project previously reported, it was only recently made clear that these political foundations—affiliated with Germany’s major political parties—would be treated as NGOs and permitted to register under the Foreign NGO Law.Read more
New Rules for Foreign NGO Bank Accounts
Ministry of Public Security WeChat Posts—May 19, 2017
On May 19, the People’s Bank of China and the Ministry of Public Security jointly issued the “Notice on Work Related to Foreign NGO Representative Offices’ Renminbi Bank Account Management” (关于做好境外非政府组织代表机构人民币银行账户管理有关工作的通知). According to the Ministry of Public Security’s (MPS’) official WeChat account, the Notice explains the process and required documentation for setting up a bank account within China and for banking and financial institutions’ responsibilities for verifying foreign NGOs’ documentation, and it also provides additional...Read more
Ministry of Public Security Highlights Foreign NGOs’ Role in Belt and Road Initiative
Ministry of Public Security WeChat Posts—May 11-15, 2017
Here are our translations of the latest WeChat posts from the Ministry of Public Security related to Foreign NGOs.Read more
The Center for Charity Law at Beijing Normal University’s China Philanthropy Research Institute (CPRI), which runs a Foreign NGO Registration Support Program, issued a bilingual set of FAQs addressing 30 common questions related to foreign NGO Registration, temporary activity filing, and general operations under the new law. Their answers are drawn from seminars (presumably with the Ministry of Public Security) as well as their own recent experience assisting foreign NGOs in the new legal environment.Read more
We Called All of the Provincial Foreign NGO Management Offices So You Don’t Have To
And Here’s What Happened
As part of the fact-checking process for our FAQ on Ministry of Public Security (MPS) contact information—and keeping in mind previous reports that the National-level MPS Foreign NGO Management office initially didn’t have anyone answering the phone, The China NGO Project called all of the provincial Public Security Bureau Foreign NGO Management Offices to verify the listed phone numbers were correct and that an employees would pick up at the other end.As we note in...Read more