Qingdao Experiments with Direct Registration of Social Organizations

• Author: Su Wanming

The Qingdao Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau is experimenting with direct registration of social organizations. Which means that, under the existing regulatory framework, some facets of the “dual management system” (under which a social organization was required to find a supervisory agency as sponsor as pre-requisite to its registration) will be changed – registration requirements will be relaxed, registration procedures simplified, the...