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Charity by China’s emerging Internet giants: just for show, or a long-term plan?

This translated article discusses the forays into charity of China's new internet behemoths like ByteDance, Pinduoduo and Meituan. How much substances is there to their work for the public good?

2020-09-07

Jia Xijin: an Analysis of China’s Online Fundraising During COVID-19

Tsinghua professor Jia Xijin analyses online fundraising during the peak of China's COVID-19 crisis. She finds that far more funds were raised during the crisis than in normal times, with the quasi-official Charity Federation enjoying a clear advantage.

2020-03-31

CCAFC agrees to return all the funds raised for Guizhou student who died

The “Wu Huayan Case”, the latest scandal affecting a charity to cause controversy on Chinese social media, appears to have reached a conclusion. The China Charities Aid Foundation for Children (CCAFC) officially announced on the 20th of January that it…

2020-01-23

Alibaba creates unified standard to assess its users’ contributions to charity

Alibaba officially released its “charity evaluation criteria” on December 23, 2019. The new set of criteria aim to create a standard to measure the value of the charitable endeavours that people carry out through the company’s various online platforms. Sun…

2020-01-07

Man who crowdfunded for his sick son ordered to return the money

A Beijing court has ordered a man to return the over 150,000 Yuan that he had raised through crowdfunding platform Shuidichou to fund his son’s medical expenses. The man, named Mo Chunyi, published a request for aid on Shuidichou last…

2019-11-07

Fifth Tencent 9/9 Charity Day raises over 2.4 billion yuan, smashing last year’s record

The fifth edition of Tencent’s 9/9 Charity Day, which officially ended on the 9th of September, has yet again broken all records for its scale and the amount of funds raised. The three-day annual event organized by the Shenzhen-based internet…

2019-09-11

China’s online fundraising platforms raised over 1.8 billion RMB in the first half of 2019

During a forum on online platforms for public fundraising held a few days ago, the Vice-Minister of Civil Affairs Wang Aiwen revealed that over the first half of 2019, the 20 official platforms for online public fundraising designated by the…

2019-09-10

1.5 million yuan raised in one day for the flooded areas of Guangxi: a new record for online fundraising

Since May 25, many areas of Guangxi province have been suffering from extreme precipitation and floodings. The heavy rains have caused local rivers to rise rapidly, quickly exceeding the warning line, and many roads have been flooded. The floods and…

2019-06-05

Crowdfunding campaigns come under scrutiny again

A crowdfunding effort on behalf of a well-known comedian has turned into China’s latest controversy over crowdfunding. On April 8, xiangsheng (crosstalk) comedian Wu Hechen suffered a cerebral haemorrhage and was hospitalized in Beijing. His condition has since stabilized. Following…

2019-05-21

Report released on online fundraising in China in 2018

A report recently released by the Ministry of Civil Affairs provides a picture of the online fundraising landscape in China for 2018. Over the course of the year, the 20 official platforms for online public fundraising designated by the Ministry…

2019-05-09

Three main fundraising platforms for people with serious diseases commit to self-regulation

Love Fundraising (爱心筹), Raindrop Fundraising (水滴筹) and Fun in Funding (轻松筹), three major online platforms where people with serious illnesses can fundraise from the public, have jointly released two documents on how their platforms should self-regulate. A “self-regulation proposal” and…

2018-10-23

Shanghai sets up online platform for social organizations

The “Shanghai online platform for social organizations”, developed by Shanghai’s Civil Affairs Bureau and Social Organizations’ Management Bureau, has become operative. The platform allows individuals and social organizations to handle 15 different transactions, including establishment of registration, alteration of registration,…

2018-10-11

An Analysis of Online Fundraising in China

Almost 1 billion RMB were raised online for charitable causes in the first half of 2018. This article analyses this important aspect of contemporary Chinese charity.

2018-08-31

Online public fundraising platforms raised nearly 1 billion RMB in the first half of 2018

Since 2016, the Ministry of Civil Affairs has been endeavoring to regularize online fundraising. This month, the first 11 online public fundraising platforms officially designated by the ministry for charity organizations to fundraise went through a statistical assessment. The assessment,…

2018-08-13

Frequency of scams raises questions about online fundraising

On the 7th of July, in China’s Southwestern city of Nanning, a mother posted a notice online stating that her daughter had been infected by the Zika virus, and that the family did not have money for treatment. Within three…

2018-07-31

An overview of the 2017 annual reports of China’s online fundraising platforms

China’s Charity Law, passed in 2016, stipulates that all charitable organisations must release fundraising information only on official platforms recognised by the Civil Affairs Department of the State Council. A year and a half after 12 organizations passed the first…

2018-03-14

CDB Reports

Charity by China’s emerging Internet giants: just for show, or a long-term plan?

Jia Xijin: an Analysis of China’s Online Fundraising During COVID-19

CCAFC agrees to return all the funds raised for Guizhou student who died

Man who crowdfunded for his sick son ordered to return the money

Fifth Tencent 9/9 Charity Day raises over 2.4 billion yuan, smashing last year’s record

China’s online fundraising platforms raised over 1.8 billion RMB in the first half of 2019

1.5 million yuan raised in one day for the flooded areas of Guangxi: a new record for online fundraising

Crowdfunding campaigns come under scrutiny again

Report released on online fundraising in China in 2018

Three main fundraising platforms for people with serious diseases commit to self-regulation

Shanghai sets up online platform for social organizations

An Analysis of Online Fundraising in China

Online public fundraising platforms raised nearly 1 billion RMB in the first half of 2018

Frequency of scams raises questions about online fundraising

An overview of the 2017 annual reports of China’s online fundraising platforms

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