The Ministry of Civil Affairs, together with the Central Cyberspace Administration of China, recently shut down the second batch of 10 illegal social organization websites and their new media accounts in 2021 in accordance with the law, and cleared relevant related web pages. The 10 illegal social organizations whose websites were shut down this time include the China Lei Feng Foundation, the National Xing Clan Association, the Chinese Cheongsam Museum, the China Internet Calligraphy Alliance, the China Newspaper Dealers Federation, the China World Trade Research Institute Border Trade Calligraphy and Painting Institute, and the National Commercial Vehicle Parts Production and Marketing Federation, Sichuan Yili Cultural Protection Alliance, Guangdong Branch of China I Ching Philosophers Association, Shandong Branch of Asia-Pacific Space Designers Alliance.

The Ministry of Civil Affairs stated that it will continue to maintain a high-pressure crackdown, strengthen network monitoring and investigation, conduct simultaneous investigations offline and online, and resolutely eradicate the breeding ground for illegal social organizations. For founders of illegal social organizations with bad nature and who refuse to change despite repeated admonitions, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will also be requested to be included in the blacklist of illegal Internet websites (sponsors) in accordance with the law.

It is understood that the Ministry of Civil Affairs, together with relevant departments, has previously shut down 65 illegal social organization websites and their WeChat, Weibo and other new media accounts.

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Characteristics of illegal social organizations

The names of illegal social organizations are highly disguised. Many illegal social organizations have names similar to those legally registered with the civil affairs department. National social organizations or international social organizations plagiarize the official website content of legitimate social organizations in their website promotions, making it difficult for the public to distinguish between "Li Kui" and "Li Gui". In terms of naming, illegal organizations often use "lofty" names such as "China", "China", "National", "World" and "United Nations".

In terms of scope, illegal social organizations often follow national strategies and use hot words of public concern such as "One Belt, One Road", "military-civilian integration", "targeted poverty alleviation" and "rural revitalization".

From the perspective of organizational form, some illegal social organizations operate in the organizational form of traditional social organizations such as "associations", "promotion associations", "federations" and "foundations"; some operate in the form of "committees" Development bureaus, "centres" and other organizational forms similar to those of government agencies and public institutions; others operate in new organizational forms such as "alliances" and "cooperative organizations".