| China has too few NGOs helping vulnerable groups
2004-01-07
Xinhua
Most non-government
organizations ( NGOs) in China are academic ones, while the proportion of NGOs
in the field of charity work and the number of NGOs specializing in
aiding vulnerable people is too small, according to a survey done by the
NGO Research Center of Qinghua University.
The survey, which was
conducted in 2000, shows that there were merely 1.45 NGOs for every 10,000
Chinese, which is far fewer than in developed nations, or in some developing
countries such as India and Brazil.
In 1998, the average annual
expenditure for each of Chinese NGO stood at 199,700 yuan (about 24,000 US
dollars), and the entire expenditure of Chinese NGOs made up 0.46 percent
of the country's GDP, while it was more than 10 percent in the Netherlands
and Israel, and over 5 percent in the United States and Australia. |
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