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NGOs in China

NGOs in China
The latest news, analysis and opinion on NGOs in China. In-depth analysis, industry insights and expert opinion.
A boy holds a Djiboutian flag in front of a Chinese flag as he waits for Djibouti’s President Ismail Omar Guellehas to conduct the launching ceremony of a 1,000-unit housing project with Chinese financial support in Djibouti, on July 4, 2018. Photo: AFP
Diplomacy

Opinion | In Africa, China must focus on both the infrastructural and the emotional

Unlike the West’s approach, China’s aid is mostly state-led. The lack of a strong grass-roots presence leaves it open to misconceptions.

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Philanthropy

How Shanghai-based NGO Charity Box is making charity easy – and trustworthy

Profile

Jo Soo Tang on growing up in Hong Kong and always volunteering

Crime in China

China charities to be overseen by police, spy agencies under proposed law change

Draft revisions to the Charity Law have been posted on the NPC website and will remain open for public comment for a month.

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The move is in line with China’s increased scrutiny of civil society. Photo: Reuters
Belt and Road Initiative

Chinese NGO fixes eyes while helping state-owned companies build ties overseas

Hong Kong-based GX Foundation sends medical teams to perform cataract surgery in developing countries from Djibouti to Laos, while China’s SOEs provide support for patients.

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China's border reopening

Chinese TED talk called off over police concerns about links to foreign NGO

It is unclear when the event in Guangzhou can go ahead as organisers look at whether they can get a temporary permit to avoid falling foul of the law.

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China’s 2022 heatwave

As I see it | China’s extreme summer: now is the time to let green groups get involved

Activism and debate on sensitive environmental issues has been shut down in the past decade, but Beijing needs to ease controls and enlist support to tackle daunting challenges.

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People walk over the dried-up riverbed of the Jialing, a tributary of the Yangtze, in Chongqing. Photo: AFP
Education in Hong Kong

Letters | Addressing retirement age will help Hong Kong retain native English teachers

Readers discuss Hong Kong’s difficulty in retaining native English teachers, questions around how NGOs spend their money and using barges as a solution to the city’s housing woes.

Coronavirus Hong Kong

Opinion | Generosity during Covid-19 crisis shows Hong Kong’s can-do spirit lives on

From major developers lending land and donating huge sums, to the many unsung heroes who delivered supplies to the needy or volunteered therapy and counselling, a united Hong Kong has shown it can be an unstoppable force.

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XXIV 2021

How Belinda Koo juggles her finance career, NGO, two brands … and motherhood

She’s an entrepreneur behind two wellness brands, an NGO founder and the MD of a wealth management company while being a mother of three – so how does Belinda Koo do it all?

Multi-hyphenate entrepreneur, reiki healer and Instagram inspirer Belinda Koo, founder of The XYZ and Souljournal. Photo: SCMP
Philanthropy

Eye on Asia | How an ESG lens can help Asian philanthropists drive change

Philanthropists today, who want to actively participate in project identification to ensure a truly sustainable impact, need a model for holistic thinking and analysis. The ESG framework is ideal

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Asian philanthropy is witnessing a shift in focus to sustainability and protecting the environment for the next generation. Photo: Shutterstock

Fixes for NGO funding in Hong Kong ‘too little, too late’

Task force recommends keeping in place controversial mechanism for deciding annual subsidies blamed for enriching top executives, but they will be required to disclose their pay.

Ban Ki-moon

Profile | Why NGO head got Richard Branson, Ban Ki-moon to live like refugees

David Begbie, director of Hong Kong-based non-profit Crossroads Foundation, talks about running refugee simulations at the World Economic Forum in Davos and having an epiphany in Macedonia.

China society

China gears up for party celebrations with crackdown on ‘illegal’ NGOs

Civil affairs ministry tells public to be alert for unregistered bodies trying to raise funds in the run-up to the party’s centenary later this year.

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The Chinese authorities want to guarantee social stability in the run-up to the celebrations of the party’s centenary in July. Photo: Reuters
5050

Opinion | In 2021, Hong Kong’s spirit of giving can light way to better times

In the depths of the pandemic, Hongkongers’ generosity gave this city hope. Here’s to a better year, which we can begin by being mindful of others’ needs and honing our habits of giving.

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Street cleaners wait in line to receive free face masks in Hong Kong on February 14. Photo: EPA-EFE
Foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong

Pregnant, jobless and stranded: helpers shelter in Hong Kong safe house

Out of work, short of money and unable to fly home, yet facing big hospital bills for giving birth in Hong Kong, pregnant domestic helpers find sanctuary in a shelter run by a charity.

Conservation

He showed China the benefits of giving green NGOs room to work

A Hong Kong native who led Greenpeace China and WWF China, Lo Sze-ping looks back at 20 years of progress in China on environmental protection and conservation, and considers the huge challenges it still faces.

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Poverty

I was ‘confused, desperate, finished’ when homeless charity saw me

At the age of 37, Peter Leung had run out of hope. Homeless and destitute, he heard about ImpactHK, a Hong Kong charity helping vagrants, and suddenly he was given a second chance.

Peter Leung working at ImpactHK. Photo: Ed Peters
Mental health

Letters | Let kids know they are not alone in coronavirus ‘new normal’

Children are incredible and resilient in ways adults can definitely learn from, but a little more parental interaction will go a long way to support them as they transition into the Covid-19 “new normal”.

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Wellness

How social isolation is making the elderly feel even more alone

Many of Hong Kong’s elderly people suffering loneliness were already getting insufficient social contact, but with the pandemic making things worse, charities are coming together to keep some of the city’s most vulnerable connected.

Philanthropy

Opinion | Why the mainland leads Hong Kong in online giving

Apart from mainland China overtaking Hong Kong in the use of mobile payment systems, the Chinese government’s endorsement of certain online charity platforms reassures donors that funds will be put to good use.

Commuters use their mobile phone as they ride on a subway in Beijing on April 8. While the mainland lags behind Hong Kong when it comes to smartphone penetration, it is far ahead in mobile payments. Photo: AFP
City Weekend

The NGO helping young Chinese disabled people shine in the workplace

The Dialogue in the Dark Foundation aims to nurture role models and has helped 20 trainees since 2016.

Hong Kong’s Dialogue in the Dark Foundation aims to nurture role models. Photo: Edward Wong
Cannes Film Festival

‘Humble heroes’ quest to counter global media’s diet of despair

Frederique Bedos’ NGO, Le Projet Imagine – The Humble Heroes, has made more than 30 films about people who’ve made a difference. In an era of fake news, she is seeking real heroes in Hong Kong and China whose stories she can tell.

North Korea

Spavor’s detention shows perils of life on China’s Korean frontier

Michael Spavor is the latest in a series of businessmen, aid workers and missionaries to run afoul of authorities in the tense border region

Poverty

Mother and child volunteers show how city’s needy can be helped

Charity food drive just one of 150 activities staged locally, as call made to boost local participation in such campaigns.

Charity food drive just one of 150 activities staged locally, as call made to boost local participation in such campaigns
Salaries

Runaway pay for NGO managers criticised as HK$7.8m in subsidies dished out

Study finds basic salaries for top executives at publicly funded social service groups were often higher than civil servants of the same rank.

Thirty-two Hong Kong social service groups supported by the government paid out more than HK$7.8 million in cash subsidies in the 2016-17 financial year to their top executives. Photo: Winson Wong
City Weekend

Tutoring not just for kids, NGO’s parent-child English lessons show

Founded by American teenager Chance Wilson when he was just 14, WGI operates in seven countries to help improve English literacy among both the young and old

Donating time can be just as generous

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