ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) founded after 1995. The discussion covers changes in NGOs in China and transitions in the relationship between the government and society. The first generation of Chinese grassroots NGOs emerged from 1995 to 2000. After 2000, grassroots NGOs spread to thirty-one cities nationwide, and their activities expanded to serving migrant populations, serving people with AIDS, providing legal aid, and working as civil think tanks. In China, more popular an organization's leader, the more considerations will be taken when the government department intervenes with organization; consequently, the organization tends to have more autonomy in staffing and decision making. China's NGOs have been through two phases of capacity building since 1995. Before 1995, the concept of an NGO was unfamiliar to the Chinese people. Such organizations had very little social impact, and few academic studies had been done on the subject. The changes in China's NGOs since 1995 indicate two developmental trends for the nonprofit sector.
