The Development of Charitable Organizations in China Since Reform and Opening-Up and a New Layout for State-Society Relations

Abstract

This chapter briefly straightens out the development of China’s social organizations since the reform and opening-up and the corresponding boom of charities. It then focuses on the newly emerged social organizations—charitable organizations brought about by the newly issued Charity Law in 2016. With the implementation of the Charity Law and the development of charitable organizations, a new state-society system has been formulated. This new system, based on the Internet as the platform, has three characteristics, including information transparency, social regulation, and charitable big data. Social organizations in China have entered a new era with charitable organizations as the major players. There is a new layout for state-society relations, which is based on charity and social values playing the dominant role, and collaboration between social organizations and the market has been set up.