Chinanews.com, Beijing, July 26. A report released in Beijing on the 26th showed that in 2019, China’s total social welfare resources totaled 337.4 billion yuan, and China’s philanthropy is generally steadily improving, but there is also charity Asset management has been seriously delayed for a long time, and volunteer organizations have insufficient funds.

Data map: Fujian charity donates materials to front-line workers of Wuhan epidemic prevention photo by Lu Ming

The total amount of charity resources declined slightly

  The report is called "The Blue Book of Philanthropy: China Philanthropy Development Report (2020)", which was jointly released by the Social Policy Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Social Science Literature Publishing House, and the China Lingshan Charity Promotion Association.

  According to the report, the fundamentals of China's philanthropy in 2019 remain relatively stable in the context of the new economic normal. The total amount of social organizations and charitable donations have continued to grow, and significant progress has been made in areas such as voluntary services, charitable asset management, and industry construction.

  However, overall, the total amount of charity resources has declined slightly. According to estimates, in 2019, China's total social welfare resources totaled 337.4 billion yuan, a decrease of 0.97% from 2018. Among them, the total social donation in 2019 is estimated to be about 133 billion yuan, the total value of volunteer contributions is 90.359 billion yuan, and the lottery charity fund raised is 114.046 billion yuan, an increase of 4.72%, 9.7% and -13.18% respectively over 2018.

  In terms of sources of donations, in addition to large donations from philanthropists, lottery charity funds and Internet donations are still the main sources of domestic philanthropic resources in 2019. However, the lottery public welfare fund dropped by more than 10%.

  From the perspective of the direction of donation, the number of donations in education is still the largest in the past five years, accounting for 35%, a decrease of 6 percentage points from 2018; the number of donations in the poverty alleviation field has been increasing year by year in the past five years, accounting for 29 % Ranked second, an increase of 11 percentage points from 2018.

Data map: Volunteers make glutinous rice balls in the Buddhist temple to send New Year blessings to lonely old and poor families

Insufficient funding for voluntary services is becoming more serious

  The report shows that volunteer service organizations face three main challenges: insufficient funding for voluntary services, inability to recruit suitable volunteers, and some local governments and communities that do not support volunteer service activities.

  Among them, insufficient funding for voluntary services is still the biggest challenge for volunteer organizations, and compared with 2018, the proportion of insufficient funding has doubled. The reason may be the growth of volunteers, which has caused the problem of insufficient funding to become more and more serious. .

  Compared with the 2018 survey data, although the proportions of these three challenges are different, the ranking order is highly consistent with 2018.

  In addition, volunteers interrupted their services on their own (22.22%), and volunteers suffered personal injuries and property losses (20.63%), which are also difficulties faced by volunteer organizations. (Finish)