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Karla Simon
Charitable giving in China in a new legislative environment
China has been faulted for having an extremely low rate of charitable giving. In the Charities Aid Foundation’s 2015 “World Giving Index” China ranked 144th out of 145 – spared a last place finish only …
Charity Law in China
The National Peoples’ Congress passed the Charity Law on the last day of its 2016 session, with 92.49 per cent of delegates voting in favor of the law. It passed on the same day as …
The Charity Law Receives New Life
After a long, quiet summer of no developments on the ‘Charity Law,’ it was suddenly presented for a first reading in the National People’s Congress (NPC) at the end of October. The comment period is …
Contradictions in CSO regulation in China
Contradictions exist because of the Foreign NGO Law and its intersection with the more recently available draft Charity Law released by the government, which I have been invited to comment on. The Charity Law draft …
Charity law in China
Premier Li Keqiang, in the annual Government Work Report to the National People’s Congress, specifically mentioned that the government plans to promote charities in 2015. This is consistent with other developments that have been occurring …
Move to regulate foreign NGOs in China
In China the first attempt to enact a comprehensive legal framework regulating foreign NGOs is being carried out. This event has received a lot of attention from foreign media and will have. a direct impact …
The definition of charity: implications for direct registration
One of the problematic issues that has arisen in the local jurisdictions we at ICCSL are studying with respect to the impact of the new direct registration regulations in China has been an imprecise understanding …
Reflections from China: charities and advocacy
Having completed my latest set of comments for the China Philanthropy Research Institute (CPRI) on its ‘Charity Law’ draft (latest version July 2014; the work was commissioned by the Asia Foundation), I feel it is …
Qualifying a ‘people’s organization’ as a public benefit organization in China
As Chinese academics and the government seek to devise a system under the proposed ‘charity’ or public benefit law for adoption by the National People’s Congress in the coming years, the question of how ‘people’s …
Charity law in China
A recent busy visit to Beijing disclosed that much is happening on the ‘charity’ law front, with many other ancillary developments regarding the three regulations (san tiaoli). Beginning first with those, I will analyze where …
