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，探讨专制政权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境内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综述是2021年的另一个重点，所有这些都是为了更好地设计问卷，并在随后几年的田野调查中提供和分析收集到的数据集，从而完善调查过程。与此同时，在与当地接触者合作的同时，也在考虑一种在线替代办法，以防流行病在不久的将来根本没有减轻，在这种情况下进行实地工作是不可行的。根据拟议的计划，2022年将旨在进行文献综述，以提高问卷和调查过程的质量。由于该部分已于2021年开始，因此项目将有更多时间专注于原定于2023年的2022年的数据收集。总的来说，这个项目的进展比原先计划的要快。

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.