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This will encourage genuine groups to play a bigger role in providing public services that used to be partly shouldered by the government.
NGOs that have started to form Party organizations according to government policies said their daily operations are as smooth as before, and that foreign media claims about the Party's "attempt to strengthen its control over the NGOs" are not true.
The General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council General Office on Monday jointly issued a guideline to "reform social organizations' management systems and boost their healthy and orderly development."
Besides vowing to provide preferential financial and taxation incentives to encourage NGOs to take over many government agencies' previous functions in providing public services, the guidelines also emphasized the Party's role in ensuring the political correctness of NGO operations.
"Party organizations in NGOs should unite the masses and ensure the NGOs' correct political directions," the guidelines read, adding that Party organizations should raise questions over important NGO decisions, large expenditures and activities involving overseas organizations.
The guideline is a more complete reform plan after the authorities issued a trial guideline over Party construction work at NGOs in September last year. This said if an NGO has three or more Party members http://www.redsoxbaseballproshop.com/red-sox-nomar-garciaparra-jersey/ , it should establish branch Party organizations. NGOs with fewer Party members can establish joint Party organizations across similar NGOs, the document said.
This corresponds with the country's ongoing campaign to revitalize the Party's role in State-owned and private companies in order to unite more people around the Party and reduce corruption and malpractice.
In a report on Monday, Radio Free Asia accused the NGO management reform of twisting the roles of NGOs.
However, Zheng Gongcheng, a professor on social welfare studies at the Renmin University of China said the reform is mainly aimed at dealing with problems of shady NGOs.
"Some NGOs are nothing but knockoff organizations that make money or other gains under the guise of a public-interest entity," Zheng told the Global Times on Thursday.
The Ministry of Civil Affairs on August 16 published a list of the 11th batch of "knockoff NGOs http://www.redsoxbaseballproshop.com/red-sox-mookie-betts-jersey/ ," adding to the more than 1,000 self-claimed public-interest organizations it has exposed before.
These groups, which have flashy names, such as the "Chinese Healthy Food Association" and the "Global Federation of Chinese Entrepreneurs," were often forged to make money from their target members, previous reports said.
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By the end of the first quarter of 2016, there were 664,800 NGOs registered with civil affairs authorities nationwide, the People's Daily reported Tuesday.