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At a Glance
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Organizational Forms
Registration Body Ministry of Civil Affairs
Barriers to Entry
Barriers to Activities
Barriers to Speech
and/or Advocacy
Barriers to International
Contact
Barriers to Resources
Key Indicators
Social organizations (shehui tuanti), civil non-enterprise institutions (minban
fei qiye danwei), and foundations (jijinhui). The last category includes two
types of foundations: public fundraising and non-public fundraising
foundations.
1. System of “dual registration” for all social organizations;
2. Extensive documentation requirements;
3. Broad prohibitions in certain activities and areas such as advocacy, legal
assistance, labor, religion, and ethnic minority affairs;
4. Extensive discretion to deny registration;
1. Government discretion to limit establishment of more than one
organization in activity area;
2. Government discretion to intervene in internal affairs;
3. Burdensome reporting requirements;
Population 1,336,718,015 (2011 est.)
Capital Beijing
Type of Government Communist State
Life Expectancy at Birth
Literacy Rate
Religious Groups
Ethnic Groups
4. Invasive government monitoring and inspections.
The Government has discretion to limit speech and advocacy for specific
organizations and types of organizations and for specific cases that might be
seen to negatively impact national security.
Organizations are sometimes required to report international contacts to
authorities and sometimes to seek approval for visits, international
cooperation, foreign donations, etc. They are also discouraged from working
with or receiving funding from overseas organizations which are engaged in
"democracy promotion". These include the National Endowment for Democracy
(NED), the Open Society Institute (OSI), and the International Republican
Institute (IRI).
There are restrictions on fundraising and networking. With the exception of
public fundraising foundations, CSOs are not allowed to engage in public
fundraising. CSO networks are also a sensitive issue. A number of networks
have emerged in recent years but they are all informal in nature. Approval is
also required for receipt of external resources. A 2009 regulation requires
CSOs to go through more paperwork to transfer donations from oversees
organizations into their bank accounts.
Male: 72.68 years
Female: 76.94 years (2011 est.)
Male: 96%
Female: 88.5% (2008 census)
GDP per capita $7,600 (2010 est.)
Daoist, Buddhist, Christian: 3%-4%; Muslim: 1% -2%; (official atheist) (2002
est.)
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Han Chinese: 91.5%; Zhuang, Manchu, Hui, Miao, Uyghur, Tujia, Mongol,
Tibetan, Buyi, Dong, Yao, Korean, and other nationalities: 8.5%; (2000 census)
Source: The World Factbook. Washington, DC: Central Intelligence Agency, 2009.
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