07.05.22
Visually Understanding the Data on Foreign NGO Representative Offices and Temporary Activities
The China NGO Project has created the following visualizations based on data available on the Ministry of...
05.01.19
How Many Foreign NGOs Have Registered Offices in China and Where Are They?
A list of successfully registered NGOs is available here (in Chinese) on the Ministry of Public Security’s main NGO website. The China NGO Project also maintains a map with information about approved NGOs, including their location of registration...
01.03.19
Two Years of the Foreign NGO Law: How Did 2018’s Registrations and Filings Stack up against 2017’s?
As we greet 2019, we have now seen two full years of Foreign NGO Law implementation in China. If foreign NGOs thought that 2017 had a “crossing the river by feeling for stones” sense to it, 2018 was the year that registration and filing processes...
11.05.18
One New Professional Supervisory Unit Appeared in October
According to information from the MInistry of Public Security’s website, a new Professional Supervisory Unit (PSU) became a foreign NGO sponsor last month. The Guangdong Youth Federation, a provincial-level branch of the All-China Youth...
03.05.18
February Foreign NGO Data Now Available—with a Few Changes to Our Categorization Scheme
We’ve updated our monthly tallies of foreign NGO temporary activities and representative offices as well as our graphics showing which Chinese government entities are serving as Professional Supervisory Units (and which are not). As we do...
02.09.18
Upgrades to Our Temporary Activity and Representative Office Tables
In response to reader feedback, we’ve made two big changes this week to our tables that contain translated Ministry of Public Security information on representative offices and temporary activities: First, we’ve enabled a filter/search function...
11.22.17
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....
11.06.17
Updated Charts Include October Data on Temporary Activities and Representative Offices
We’ve updated our suite of data visualizations to include the month of October.
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10.23.17
New Data Visualizations Up for January-September
We’ve updated our page of monthly data visualizations to include September. The data show that Hong Kong...
08.03.17
Updated Data Visualizations for January-July
We’ve crunched the numbers and updated our suite of data visualizations to include the month of July....
07.26.17
Analysis on the First Six Months of the Foreign NGO Law
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...
07.26.17
Six Months In: An Analysis of Foreign NGO Activity in China
Half a year after China’s new law regarding foreign non-governmental organizations (NGOs) went into effect, many questions remain about the law’s implementation across different regions of China and across different fields of work...
06.21.17
Which PSUs Listed by the MPS Are Not Yet Serving as Such?
As of June 16, more than six months after the Foreign NGO Law went into effect, 84 foreign NGOs have successfully registered 97 representative offices. Thirty-eight unique Chinese government entities at either the national or provincial level...
05.09.17
More Foreign NGOs Register in Yunnan, Sichuan, Shanghai, and Guangdong
The Beijing-based China Development Brief's (CDB’s) English-language website came out last month with more news about the implementation of the Foreign NGO Law in...
04.24.17
Approved Foreign NGO Representative Offices: A Comparison with Previous Registrations
One of the mandates of the newly-enacted Law on the Management of Foreign Non-Governmental Organizations’ Activities in the People’s Republic of China is that all Foreign NGOs with a permanent footprint in China must register with the Ministry of...
