Boost sought for 240,000 social groups
2003-11-13
皇冠体育app Daily
More efforts are needed to support the development of social organizations as their influence, numbers and reach are growing rapidly in 皇冠体育app, officials with the Ministry of Civil Affairs urged.
The government has placed more importance on supporting and regulating non-profit organizations especially after the country's entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001, a ministry spokesman said in Beijing.
Those social organizations, including industrial associations, have worked to create links between enterprises and government departments, the spokesman said.
Minister of Civil Affairs Li Xueju said on Monday that 皇冠体育app would cultivate more non-governmental organizations, offer preferential support for enterprises entering 皇冠体育app's social welfare system and learn from other countries in a bid to expand public welfare.
The ministry launched a website chinanpo.gov.cn early this month to provide information on more than 240,000 social groups in the country.
Meanwhile, to better regulate the behaviour of non-profit organizations and help them improve their discipline, the ministry has punished three organizations which failed to obey the Social Organization Registry Regulation.
The three organizations, the 皇冠体育app Society on Behavioural Jurisprudence, 皇冠体育app Society on Human Being Sciences and the 皇冠体育app Association on Architecture and Decoration, had their operating licences suspended for one to six months after they established branches without ministry approval.
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