From China Development Brief (link):
As China’s first generation of NGOs look back on ten or more years of growth in a shifting, but invariably difficult, policy context, several of them are also wrestling with the equally challenging issue of leadership succession.
It was Friends of Nature“one of the first independent NGOs to be established in reform-era China, back in 1994″that took the first, and perhaps most decisive, step towards leadership transition.
Two years ago, founding President and General Secretary, Liang Congjie (梁从诫), 72, announced his retirement and was succeeded, in a public recruitment process that drew nearly 80 applicants, by a thirty-something native of Guizhou Province, Xue Ye (薛野). Xue started a three-year term as General Secretary in December 2004.
