Charity China
Follow the WeChat public platform "Dynamic of China's Social Organizations" and click on the "Charity China" section to log in, you can check the public information of national charitable organizations. Charitable organizations that have not applied for a Charity China account are required to download and print out a letter of commitment on the use of Charity China, and submit paper documents to the registration authority to apply for a Charity China account name and password.
As of 8 a.m. on Sept. 4, the platform had published real-time information on 2,134 charitable organizations and 38 charitable trusts across the country, with the size of charitable trust contracts reaching nearly 860 million yuan. Among them, 517 charitable organizations have public fundraising qualifications, and have filed and released 837 public fundraising activities information on the platform, displaying 1,595 charitable project information.
1978-2008 Booming Philanthropy
In 1978, the Ministry of Civil Affairs resumed its establishment. Since then, with the approval of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, public foundations such as the China Children and Teenagers' Fund, the China Women's Development Foundation, and the China Youth Development Foundation have been established one after another, and from the construction of organizations and institutions to the performance of their functions, China's public welfare and philanthropic undertakings have begun to revitalize since then.
In July 1981, the China Children and Teenagers' Fund (CCTF) was established, which was the first national foundation in China. In 1989, the CCTF launched and implemented the "Spring Bud Program", a project aimed at subsidizing girls who had dropped out of school in poverty-stricken areas to continue their education and improving the conditions of schools in poor areas. "Up to now, the Spring Bud Program has sponsored more than 3.69 million girls, donated the construction of 1,811 spring bud schools, and provided vocational education and training to 527,000 girls.
"In the past thirty years, the 'Mother's Water Cellar' has helped 2.96 million people in the central and western regions to solve their drinking water difficulties; donated 2624 'Mother's Health Express' and on-board medical equipment to poor areas, benefiting 66 million people; donated 2624 'Mother's Health Express' and on-board medical equipment to poor areas, benefiting 66 million people. The number of beneficiaries reached 66 million; realized entrepreneurship and employment for 400,000 impoverished women, and radiated 3.5 million people out of poverty; donated postal packages for 770,000 impoverished mothers?" In December 1988, the China Women's Development Foundation was established, and has since shouldered the social functions of comprehensively improving the quality of women, safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of women, and promoting the development of women and women's causes.
Twenty-nine years ago, Xie Hailong, a reporter for China Youth Daily, took a photo of 8-year-old Su Mingjuan in Dabie Mountain, which later became known as "Big Eyes," and became China's best-known and most moving philanthropic endeavor, Project Hope. It became the symbol of China's most famous and touching charity program, "Project Hope". Comrade Deng Xiaoping was pleased to inscribe the words "Project Hope" in his honor.
Everyone who looks into the "big eyes" can feel a tremor in their soul. From now on, "no matter how poor, no matter how hard, no matter how bitter, no matter how hard, no matter how hard, no matter how hard, no matter how hard, no matter how hard, no matter how hard, no matter how hard, no longer an empty slogan. As of 2018, the National Hope Project has accepted a total of 15.023 billion yuan in donations, subsidized 5.949 million students in difficulty, and assisted in the construction of 20,110 hope elementary school.
In 1994, the China Charity Federation was established, and through dozens of charitable programs in eight major areas, including disaster relief, poverty alleviation, elderly care, orphans, education support, education assistance, disability support, and medical care, it has formed a charitable assistance system that is spread across the country and is huge in scale.
In 1998, China was hit by a massive flood, and the Party Central Committee and the State Council led millions of soldiers and civilians to fight to the death against the flood, which killed 3004 people, directly affected 223 million people, and caused 255.1 billion yuan in direct economic losses. At that time, the China Charity Federation issued a letter of recommendation to the national organization members "about actively supporting the current flood relief," and plans to co-organize a relief party with China Central Television in the hope of raising 20 million yuan for the flood relief through the party.
"It was China's first special TV fund-raising gala." A China Charity Federation staff member recalled the scene with great emotion: "The whole floor was full of people! There were people all over the floor, donating money, goods, posters, and requests for relief work. Many families rushed to the old and young, and many people from abroad, many school students rushed to the spontaneous formation of volunteer teams by school to help the work, many catering companies for everyone free meals, delivery of meals, every day, hundreds of people opened a flowing banquet?"
The gala actually received more than 300 million yuan in donations, and the total amount of donations from all sectors of society at home and abroad to the disaster area through the China Charity Federation reached 650 million yuan. This universal mobilization of charitable events greatly changed people's concept of charity, allowing more people to participate in charitable actions, and became a turning point in the history of China's philanthropic development.
In 1999, the People's Republic of China **** and the State Public Welfare Donation Law came into force, which comprehensively regulated the donation and recipient behavior, protected the legitimate rights and interests of donors, recipients and beneficiaries, and explicitly prohibited the donation activities in the forcible apportionment or disguised apportionment, and the donation in the name of engaging in profit-making activities is characterized as a violation of the law.
In 2004, the Regulations on the Administration of Foundations were promulgated and put into effect, encouraging In 2004, the Regulations on the Administration of Foundations were promulgated, encouraging enterprises and private individuals to donate property to set up non-public foundations, providing a new impetus for the development of public welfare and philanthropy.