A New Path for Civil Society Development and Governance in China: The Case Study of the State-Led NGOs

本研究的目的是通过对中国南方国家主导的非政府组织的案例研究，探讨威权体制下非政府组织的自主性和功能性。为此，按照2021年的计划，过去一年的主要工作是与中国当地与目标对象密切相关的联系人进行沟通。此外，2021年的另一个工作重点是就有关课题的最新研究结果进行文献回顾，以便更好地设计调查问卷，并完善调查过程，以便在以后几年提供和分析从实地调查收集的数据集。同时，一个，在与当地联系人合作的同时，也在考虑替代线路，以防在不久的将来大流行完全没有减弱，根据拟议计划，2022年将旨在进行文献审查，以提高问卷调查和调查过程的质量。由于该部分已于2021年开始，该项目将有更多时间专注于2022年的数据收集，而原计划于2023年。总的来说，这个项目的进度比原计划的要快。

The objective of this research is to probe on the autonomy and functionality of NGOs under authoritarian regime through a case study on state-led NGOs in southern China.To this end, as planned for 2021, the primary work in the past year has been on communicating with local contacts who are closely associated with the target subjects at the site in China. Moreover, conducting literature review on the latest findings on this topic was another focus of 2021, all of which is to better design the questionnaire and polish the survey process in delivering and analyzing the collected datasets from the fieldwork in later years.At the same time, an on-line alternative has also been in consideration while working with the local contacts in case the pandemic does not abate at all in impending future in which conducting physical fieldwork is not feasible.According to the proposed plan, 2022 will be aimed at conducting literature review to improve the quality of questionnaire and survey process. Since this part has already been started in 2021, the project will have more time to be focused on data collection in 2022 which is originally planed in 2023. On balance, the progress of this project is ahead of what had originally been planned.