Beijing has investigated 34 illegal social organizations this year
Party members and cadres who are "platforms" of illegal social organizations will be held accountable; the public should not be confused by award packages and famous platforms
From 2018 to 2020, Beijing has banned 97 illegal social organizations.
Since the beginning of this year, as of early April, 34 more have been investigated and prosecuted.
Before July 1, Beijing launched a special campaign to crack down on illegal social organizations, which not only cracked down on illegal social organizations themselves, but also strengthened the accountability of related units and individuals.
Beijing News Yesterday, the Beijing Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau held a press conference on a special action to crack down on illegal social organizations.
The reporter learned from the meeting that from this year to early April, Beijing had investigated and dealt with 34 illegal social organizations.
Zhao Xuegang, member of the Social Work Committee of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee and deputy director of the Civil Affairs Bureau, said that this year is the 100th anniversary of the Communist Party of China and the beginning of the "14th Five-Year Plan".
Illegal social organizations are particularly good at "scratching hot spots" and "borrowing business opportunities" to illegally seek profits from them, disrupt the order of social management, and damage the image of the party and the government.
"Beijing has always been the main battlefield against illegal social organizations."
Prior to this, 18 departments including the Ministry of Civil Affairs held a video conference to further crack down on illegal social organizations, and deployed specific actions to focus on cracking down on illegal social organizations before July 1.
After that, Beijing held a special action to rectify illegal social organizations to mobilize and deploy a video and telephone conference, and made specific arrangements for the special action, and it is clear that it must be vigorous and effective.
According to reports, from 2018 to 2020, the Beijing Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau banned 97 illegal social organizations.
From this year to early April, 34 illegal social organizations have been investigated and dealt with.
Zhao Xuegang reminded the public not to be confused by information such as award packages of illegal social organizations and famous platforms.
Focus 1
Five types of illegal social organizations are listed as the focus of crackdown
Zhao Xuegang introduced that Beijing’s special campaign to crack down on illegal social organizations has clearly focused on five types of illegal social organizations.
One is illegal social organizations that use the name of national strategy to operate in the fields of economy, culture, charity, etc.;
The second is illegal social organizations that use the words "China", "Zhonghua" and "State", or under the name of state organs, subordinate institutions of public institutions, etc., to engage in activities such as defrauding money and accumulating wealth;
The third is illegal social organizations that link up with legally registered social organizations to carry out activities and confuse themselves;
Fourth, illegal social organizations that use activities to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China to carry out selection and award activities;
Fifth, illegal social organizations that carry out pseudo-health, pseudo-national studies and mysticism activities, as well as activities under the guise of religious banners.
Focus 2
Strengthen legal accountability of related units and individuals
Zhao Xuegang introduced that this special campaign to crack down on illegal social organizations will strengthen the legal responsibilities of related units and individuals.
Enterprises, public institutions and social organizations link up with illegal social organizations to carry out activities, or facilitate their activities, participate in the establishment or join of illegal social organizations, accept illegal social organizations as branches or subordinate institutions, provide account use for illegal social organizations, etc. Facilitate and conduct false propaganda for illegal social organizations, civil affairs departments, market supervision and other relevant departments will severely penalize them in accordance with the law, publicize relevant punishment information to the public, and take credit punishment measures against the responsible parties.
Party members and cadres, including retired cadres who participate in illegal social organization activities, especially those who "speak up" for illegal social organization "platforms", will be transferred to discipline inspection and supervision organs, organization and personnel departments for serious handling in accordance with regulations and laws.
If Internet companies and their affiliated platforms fail to seriously perform the verification of users’ true identity information and information release review obligations, and provide services for illegal social organizations’ online activities, the cybersecurity and informatization departments and the telecommunications authorities will follow the relevant opinions of the civil affairs departments and follow the law in accordance with the law. In accordance with their duties, they shall be ordered to seal up and shut down the official accounts and websites of illegal social organization platforms, and those who refuse to make corrections shall be punished in accordance with the law.
Trains, high-speed rails, airplanes, ships, buses and other transportation vehicles, airports, docks, stations, shopping malls, hotels, restaurants, entertainment venues, stadiums and other places operating management units, neighborhood (village) committees, residential community management units, Conference centers, exhibition centers, commercial buildings, office buildings and other service places that provide propaganda facilities for illegal social organizations, and provide activities or office space for illegal social organizations, their superior authorities will order immediate corrections and deal with the responsible persons seriously .
In addition, Zhao Xuegang reminded that news media must not publicize and report illegal social organization activities; financial institutions must not provide illegal social organizations with financial services such as opening bank accounts.
The public should pay attention to avoid being associated with illegal social organizations.
Focus 3
Intended to impose credit punishment on persons responsible for illegal social organizations
"An important task of this special action is to explore the credit restraint mechanism for the responsible persons of illegal social organizations, promote the implementation of credit supervision and punishment, and study and formulate the investment and financing, import and export, entry-exit, and recruitment of persons responsible for illegal social organizations. Strict measures in terms of bidding, obtaining honors, production and operation licenses, and professional qualifications." Zhao Xuegang introduced.
The Beijing Civil Affairs Bureau will conduct comprehensive online and offline investigations, implement quick investigations and quick handling, quickly ban them, and expose the list of illegal social organizations, typical cases, and investigation results.
At the same time, strengthen joint disciplinary action, impose credit disciplinary action on illegal social organizations, affiliated units, and main persons in charge, and restrict industry access and project approval in accordance with the law, so as to achieve "one illegality, restricted punishment", and suspected criminals Investigate his criminal responsibility in accordance with the law.
■ Reminder
How to identify illegal social organizations?
●Log in to the Chinese social organization government service platform (https://www.chinanpo.gov.cn/) and check through the inquiry page of the national social organization credit information publicity platform to know whether it is registered.
●Follow the WeChat official account of "China Social Organization Trends", and check its legitimacy through "I want to check".
●Call the 12345 citizen hotline or the Beijing Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau's telephone number 65688811 to provide relevant information, which will be verified by the civil affairs department.
●Follow the official website of Beijing Municipal Bureau of Civil Affairs for the “Column of Crackdown on Illegal Social Organizations” and the “Beijing Social Construction and Civil Affairs” official account, and keep up to date with the latest developments in Beijing’s crackdown on illegal social organizations and the list of bans.
Source: Beijing Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau
Beijing News Graphics/Xu Xiao
■ Follow up
What scams do illegal social organizations have?
Illegal social organizations mainly include three types: one is an organization that carries out activities in the name of a social organization without the registration of the civil affairs department. This is the most common type; the other is that a social organization continues to act as a social organization after its registration is revoked or its registration certificate is revoked. Organizations that organize nominal activities; third, social organizations that carry out non-preparatory activities during the preparatory period.
Zhao Xuegang introduced that illegal social organizations are increasingly resorting to fakes and tricks, and the public should pay special attention to the following situations.
The first is to use the name "Gao Dashang", under the banner of inheriting national culture, to directly mail or send false award certificates to relevant people, to carry out appraisal and commendation activities, and to collect the winners' fees.
Case This year, the Beijing Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau investigated and dealt with illegal social organizations such as the "China Red Culture Society" and "National Intangible Culture Research Association". They forged red-headed documents and seals, had no actual office space and office staff, and no one answered any phone calls left.
Secondly, some illegal social organizations, under the banner of "government", organize experts, scholars, and celebrities in the industry to "endorse" their "platforms" and have a certain social influence.
Case On April 7 this year, the "National Government Legal Service Alliance", which was banned in accordance with the law, has a sound internal structure, with hundreds of member units, and has held large-scale forums and meetings in many places across the country. Participants include not only well-known domestic law firms and law sciences. Colleges, lawyers’ associations, and judicial administrative agencies have not registered in any department, making it more difficult for the masses to distinguish between authenticity and falsehood.
In addition, it is packaged into government agencies and national legal social organizations, imitating the establishment of websites, issuing documents, linking current political news on the website, linking to various government agencies, publishing so-called red-head documents, and even claiming to be supported by the government.
The "Chinese Taekwondo Federation Association" that has been banned has only the word "Alliance" more than the regular association; the "China Quality Certification Supervision and Inspection Center" which was banned on February 5 also contains "315" and the org domain name in its website. , It is easy to make the masses mistakenly believe that they are subordinate units of the national quality supervision department.
Beijing News reporter Ma Jinqian