Comparative analysis of the meanings and characteristics of NGO and NPO. The two terms NGO and NPO are commonly seen in various media and people's daily lives today.

For many people, they are nothing new. I believe that most people who have come into contact with these two words will know the English words they represent and their Chinese meanings.

However, in almost all countries in the world, especially due to the influence of the media, the terms NGO and NPO and their concepts are still commonly used confusingly and indiscriminately. Many people are simply confused about the meaning of these two terms.

The exact meaning of the expressions and the connections and differences between them.

The terms NGO and NPO are often used with different emphasis in different countries, or they are used interchangeably in the same country.

1. In order to understand and grasp NGOs and NPOs more accurately, we need to understand their meanings and characteristics, and clarify the connections and differences between them.

1. The background of the emergence of the concepts of NGO and NPO: 1. The emergence and Chineseization of the NGO concept: The word NGO is the abbreviation of the English "Non-governmental Organization", and the Chinese literal translation is "Non-governmental Organization".

Overseas, NGOs emerged in the 1970s and began to develop rapidly and become popular around the world after the 1980s.

At present, NGO's promotion and influence on social development has become equal to that of the government and enterprises, and it is becoming the third pillar of social politics, economy, environment and other fields.

2 In international literature that takes Western developed countries as the mainstream discourse, NGOs often refer to civil organizations or non-profit organizations in developing countries. They mainly emphasize the difference between these organizations and the centralized governments that are more common in developing countries.

This has more political implications.

3 In our country, when the Fourth World Conference on Women (referred to as the "World Conference on Women") was held in Beijing in 1995, many international women's NGOs came to Beijing and held the massive Huairou NGO International Forum.

Since then, the media and the public at large have taken notice of the concept.

2. The background of the concept of NPO: The word NPO is the abbreviation of "Non-Profit Organization" in English, and its literal translation in Chinese is "non-profit organization".

This concept emerged later than NGOs, appearing in the United States in the 1980s, and then flourished around the world.

4 This organizational form first existed in the 17th century. It was born out of the social inequality that emerged during the Industrial Revolution. It then developed with the development of modern Western capitalism. Therefore, it also has rich Western cultural and social characteristics.

Institutional background.

The name "non-profit organization" itself reflects the underlying assumption behind it: that there is another organizational form before it? For-profit organizations, or enterprises, aim to maximize profits.

It can be seen that non-profit organizations are a concept that emerged based on the background of market economy, strict division of labor between government and corporate departments, and independent enterprises. Its existence and characteristics are closely related to the process of market economy and the development of the for-profit sector (enterprise).

related.

The emergence of nonprofit organizations is understood to be the product of government failure and market failure.

5 Generally speaking, NGOs and NPOs explain the nature of social groups from different perspectives. Both concepts were introduced by China from the West in recent years. There is currently no comprehensive understanding of their connotations, extensions, and conceptual explanations.

views of sex.

Many Americans like to use the term NPO; the term NGO is still the most commonly used term in various documents of the United Nations and official documents of many other countries.

Traditional Chinese culture often refers to these two types of organizations as public welfare organizations or charitable organizations. According to Article 2 of the "Regulations on the Registration and Management of Social Groups", the connotations of NPOs, NGOs and social groups are intertwined. Industry insiders believe that there is no essential difference.

6 2. Comparative analysis of the meanings and characteristics of NGO and NPO: NGO is translated into Chinese as "Non-Governmental Organization", but it is not the same as "an organization that is not a government". For example, an enterprise is not a government organization, but it is by no means what we mean here.

of non-governmental organizations.

Similarly, NPO is translated as "non-profit organization" in Chinese, and it is not the same as "non-profit organization". For example, the government is a non-profit organization, but it is by no means the non-profit organization we are talking about here.

1. The connotation of the NGO concept and its organizational characteristics: There is no universal consensus in the world on the definition of the NGO concept.

At present, there are three representative definitions of NGOs in domestic academic circles: NGO in a broad sense refers to all social and non-governmental organizations other than governments and for-profit enterprises. Its extension includes associations, private non-enterprise units, state-owned institutions,

People's organizations and other organizations (including associations within units, registered in the form of enterprises, unregistered associations, etc.) 7; NGOs in a narrow sense refer to societies that strictly comply with the "Regulations on the Registration and Management of Societies" and the "Regulations on the Registration and Management of Private Non-Enterprise Units"

Organizations, that is, civil organizations in the official concept, have only two types of organizations: associations and private non-enterprise units. 8 (There is also a view that only those purely private grassroots organizations are regarded as NGOs, and those with government backgrounds are regarded as NGOs.

are excluded).

The middle definition is to remove state-owned enterprises, institutions or other organizations in a broad sense.