Social organizations are the third form of organization besides government and enterprises and contribute a lot to the country's GDP.

Social organizations are divided into three forms: foundations, social groups and private non-enterprises: 1. Foundations (charitable foundations, foundations) refer to the use of property donated by natural persons, legal persons or other organizations for the purpose of engaging in public welfare undertakings.

A non-profit legal person established in accordance with the provisions of these regulations.

The foundation first achieved mature development in the United States.

American foundations began to flourish after the 20th century.

The Carnegie Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, established in 1900, are two of the more well-known foundations established in the early 1900s.

The Ford Foundation, established in 1936 and funded by the Ford family, has billions of dollars, projects all over the world, and a wide range of impacts.

In 2000, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was established, becoming the world's largest philanthropic foundation to promote equality in global health and education.

According to statistics from the American Foundation Center, 90,000 of the 1.6 million charitable organizations can be considered foundations.

The total annual donations in 2011 were 305.8 billion U.S. dollars, 72% of which came from individual donations and some forms of micro-credit.

8% of this comes from donations from people's estates when they pass away, and most of them are given to church organizations.

Nearly 20% of donations come from foundations and corporate foundations.

Therefore, for a country, the foundation basically represents the conscience of the country.

In 2004, my country's "Foundation Management Regulations" were promulgated, which clearly regulated the internal governance, financial accounting system and use of donations of foundations.

The development of the foundation has accelerated and its social influence has further increased.

Policy changes in recent years have further promoted the development of non-public foundations.

Many provinces across the country have decentralized foundation registration and management authority, and non-public foundations can be registered with municipal and county-level civil affairs departments.

The report of the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee clearly stipulated that the development of social organizations should be further promoted.

Chinese foundations have entered a stage of rapid development and there is broad room for growth.

2. Social groups refer to social organizations composed of certain people for a certain purpose.

It can be divided into two types of social organizations: for-profit and non-profit.

The former such as cooperatives, companies, etc.; the latter such as politics, religion, science and technology, culture, art, charity and other social mass groups.

In addition to forming a certain number of people, establishing a social group also requires formulating articles of association, registering with relevant authorities, and some also need to apply for permission according to law, etc.

Social groups are an important part of contemporary Chinese political life.

China's current social groups are all of a quasi-official nature.

The "Regulations on the Registration and Management of Social Groups" stipulates that the establishment of a social group must submit approval documents from the competent business department.

Business competent departments refer to the relevant departments of the people's governments at or above the county level and their authorized organizations.

Social groups are actually affiliated with business authorities.

Chinese social groups are a type of social organization.

3. Private non-enterprise units are social organizations organized by enterprises, institutions, social groups and other social forces as well as individual citizens using non-state-owned assets to engage in social service activities. They are divided into education, health, science and technology, culture, labor, civil affairs,

Ten categories including sports, intermediary services and legal services.

Our common private kindergartens, private schools, private nursing homes, private football clubs, various private sports clubs, private welfare legal aid centers, private hospitals, etc. are all private non-enterprises.

4. The actual contribution of China’s social organizations to GDP: Taking 2016 as an example, the economic contribution of my country’s social organizations reached 278.9 billion yuan, and they are becoming a new force in my country’s economic and social construction.

Recently, the National School of Administration’s research team released the “Research Report on Calculation of the Economic Scale of Social Organizations (N-GDP)” (hereinafter referred to as the “Report”).

The economic scale of social organizations (NPO-GDP, abbreviated as N-GDP) refers to the sum of new products and services produced by legal person social organizations and their related values ??within a certain period of time.

The report shows that the total added value of social organizations nationwide was approximately 278.9 billion yuan, accounting for 0.37% of GDP and 0.73% of the added value of the tertiary industry that year. Among them, the added value of social service institutions was approximately 227.2 billion yuan, and the added value of associations was 35.6 billion yuan.

Yuan, the added value of the foundation is approximately 16.1 billion.

In 2016, the top five provinces in terms of added value of social organizations were Guangdong, Jiangsu, Shandong, Shanghai, and Beijing.

The top five provinces in total expenditure on social organizations in 2016 were Guangdong, Jiangsu, Sichuan, Shandong, and Shanghai.

The report believes that social organizations are becoming a new force in my country's economic and social construction, and they can be expected to play an important new role in the diverse supply side of the supply side.

According to the Ministry of Civil Affairs’ “Statistical Bulletin on Social Service Development in 2016”, the total number of social organizations in China at the end of that year was 702,000.

However, the report pointed out that more than 10% of these are inactive social organizations, and there are actually about 600,000 active social organizations.

In 2016, there were about 49,380 "inactive and suspected inactive organizations" among social service agencies, accounting for about 13.68% of the total number of social service agencies that year; there were about 48,580 "inactive and suspected inactive organizations" among societies in 2016.

, accounting for approximately 14.46% of the total number of associations that year.

It is estimated that the number of social organizations capable of survival and activity in 2016 may be 604,000 after excluding "inactive and suspected inactive organizations" of social service agencies and societies.