In late April 2016, China passed a new law targeting the establishment and management of foreign NGO’s in China, which will become effective in the PRC on January 1, 2017. Much has been said in foreign media about the restrictive provisions of this new law. How bad is it? And what does this new law mean for foreign NGO’s which already have operations in China?
The law applies to the activities of foreign NGO’s within the PRC. But what’s a foreign NGO? The law states that foreign NGO’s include “foundations, social organizations, think tanks, and other non-profit-making and non-governmental social organizations legally established overseas.”
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