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个案研究，探讨威权政权下非政府组织的自主性和功能。为此，计划在2021年，过去一年的主要工作是与中国遗址上与目标对象密切相关的当地联系人进行沟通。此外，对这一主题的最新发现进行文献审查是2021年的另一个重点，所有这些都是为了更好地设计问卷，并完善调查过程，以便在以后几年提供和分析从实地工作中收集到的数据集。同时，在与当地接触者合作时也考虑了在线替代方案，以防疫情在即将到来的未来根本不能减少，进行实地考察是不可行的。根据拟议的计划，2022年的目标将是进行文献审查，以提高问卷和调查过程的质量。由于这部分已于2021年启动，该项目将有更多时间专注于2022年的数据收集，原计划在2023年进行。总的来说，这项工程的进度比原计划的进度要快。

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.