Representatives of Chinese Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) Wednesday voiced their wishes to offer their help for and be good partners of the government.
Li Xiaolin, vice president of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, made the remarks while delivering a keynote speech at a “Chinese NGO Forum” held in Beijing.
“Chinese NGOs have the necessity and also the responsibility to be helpful to the government and become its partners, in ways like helping the government draw up and carry out policies,” she said.
Chinese NGOs, different from some NGOs in western countries that take pride in anti-government practices, act under the principle of “supporting and cooperating with the government,” according to Sun Gonglin, secretary general of the China Society for Promotion of the Guangcai Program, an NGO composed of private businesspeople to help reduce poverty.
