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China's top legislators on Wednesday reviewed the nation's draft of the first philanthropy law amid rapidly-developing charity activities that have also fallen victim to fraud and corruption scandals, as the nation vowed to continue work on its first law on managing international NGOs in China in 2016.
According to the draft law, organizations can apply for registration at civil affairs authorities above county level, and those that meet legal requirements must get registered within 30 days. Foundations, social organizations and other social service institutes that have been organizing charitable programs can be identified as charitable organizations at their administrative civil affairs departments within 20 days.
"As the first law on charity, the draft law will boost charity organizational development in China by granting them legal status and offering convenience in registration," Zhang Gaorong Cheap Denis Suarez Jersey , an assistant dean at Beijing Normal University's China Philanthropy Research Institute, told the Global Times.
Instead of an annual examination, the draft law now requires the filing of an annual work report to administrative civil affairs authorities. It also requires organizations to make public their work report, which should include financial and donation accounts as well as wages.
Public concern over embezzlement and the improper management of charities has risen after a series of scandals in recent years. Nationwide donations in 2012 dropped for the second straight year, Xinhua reported in September 2013.
Meanwhile, the draft law proposes incentives, including tax breaks for donors and charitable organizations.
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Specifically, the draft law states that international companies making charitable donations will see a reduction or exemption in their import tariff and value-added tax based on related laws.
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"But more donations are monetary instead of in kind from overseas," Zhu said.
In most cases, foreign individual donors or companies can directly donate to Chinese organizations under the draft law. However, those involving overseas NGOs have to wait until China's international NGO management law is passed, which will detail China's management of their operations and donations, according to Zhang.
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Charitable programs have developed rapidly in China, with total social donations rising to approximately 100 billion yuan ($1.54 billion) from less than 10 billion yuan in 2006, the Xinhua News Agency reported on Wednesday.
Li Jianguo, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, stressed that charitable programs should be encouraged as a way to alleviate poverty and help those facing difficulty.
SHANGHAI Railway Bureau announced 67 more trains will be brought into service to handle a surge of passengers during the National Day holiday.
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More than 11 million vehicles will use the city’s expressways during the holiday, a 12 percent rise over the 2016 holiday, Shanghai Road Administration Bureau said yesterday.
Just as for the past six years, expressways will be toll-free to vehicles with not more than seven seats during the holiday.
September 30 and October 1 are expected to be the busiest days for the city’s expressways and elevated roads, and on some sections queues will stretch for up to 3 kilometers on the afternoon of September 30.
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A 19 and 21 percent rise of the traffic volume on the city’s expressways over average workdays is expected respectively on September 30 and October 1.
The traffic peaks will return on the afternoons of October 7 and 8 when people come back to the city, and on some expressways linking Shanghai and neighboring provinces peak hours can last till after 8pm, according to Shanghai Road Administration Bureau.
The bureau advised residents to avoid traveling by car to out of town on September 30 and October 1 and to use public transportation wherever possible during the holiday.
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