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Two South Korean NGOs shuttered their representative offices in China in recent months, according to information on the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) website. This makes for a total of nine foreign NGOs that registered a representative office in China after the Foreign NGO Law went into effect in January 2017 and then subsequently de-registered those offices.Read more
Zhejiang PSB Issues Certificate, Hong Kong Youth Visit Hubei
Ministry of Public Security WeChat Posts—September 12, 2019
Since the establishment of the Guangdong PSB’s Foreign NGO Management Office on November 28, 2016, the office has provided registration and filing services. A total of 33 foreign NGO representative offices have been registered in Guangdong, and 474 temporary activities have been filed.Read more
The China NGO Project recently published the latest figures for Foreign NGO representative office registrations and temporary activity filings, including information through the end of September 2019. The pace of new registrations continues to hover around five per month, while the number of new temporary activities initiated in September showed a slight dip over July and August.Read more
Grace Charity Foundation has filed for far more temporary activities than any other foreign NGO. Since the Foreign NGO Law went into effect in January 2017, more than 600 foreign NGOs have carried out 2,056 temporary activities in China as of September 13, 2019. The majority of organizations that do not have representative offices in China have filed for only one or two activities. Grace Charity Foundation Limited (慈恩基金会有限公司), however, is an outlier. The Hong...Read more
Training in Xinjiang, NGO Assistance in Hubei
Ministry of Public Security WeChat Posts—August 22, 2019
August 22, 2019:The Public Security Bureau of Xinjiang Autonomous Region recently held a training course on the management of foreign NGOs in the region. Police from Foreign NGO Management Offices at various local-level PSBs took part in the training.The training course highlighted practicality and effectiveness. It discussed the Foreign NGO Law and related laws and regulations in depth, and informed participants about the Xinjiang PSB’s foreign NGO management work. Respective local PSB units discussed the...Read more