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Red Cross vows to improve disclosure amid crisis
By Zi Chen |
July 22, 2011, Friday
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THE Red Cross Society of China has pledged to set up an information-disclosure system within two years to let people track their donations in a timely manner in its latest effort to rescue its image amid a trust crisis.
China's Red Cross will set up a sound mechanism covering acceptance, management and distribution of donations, it said yesterday in a notice. Complete information must be unveiled for public scrutiny, the notice said.
After the system is established, donors can check how their donations are used on the website of the Red Cross, according to the notice. The Red Cross will also release its earnings and audit reports for 2010 soon on the website, it said.
China's Red Cross has been embroiled in a storm of criticism ever since 20-year-old Guo Meimei detailed her lavish lifestyle on her microblog, claiming to be general manager of "Red Cross Commerce."
Police in Beijing later issued a statement saying their investigations had found that Guo, a native of Yiyang City in central China's Hunan Province, had no direct links with the Red Cross.
However, more misconducts of Red Cross have been exposed since then. For example, provincial branches of the Red Cross have been found charging learner drivers a fee for non-existent "rescue training." In another case, a land plot allocated to a branch of the Red Cross in Wuhan, capital of central Hubei Province, for storing disaster relief items is said to have been rented to a company for business use.
China's Red Cross will set up a sound mechanism covering acceptance, management and distribution of donations, it said yesterday in a notice. Complete information must be unveiled for public scrutiny, the notice said.
After the system is established, donors can check how their donations are used on the website of the Red Cross, according to the notice. The Red Cross will also release its earnings and audit reports for 2010 soon on the website, it said.
China's Red Cross has been embroiled in a storm of criticism ever since 20-year-old Guo Meimei detailed her lavish lifestyle on her microblog, claiming to be general manager of "Red Cross Commerce."
Police in Beijing later issued a statement saying their investigations had found that Guo, a native of Yiyang City in central China's Hunan Province, had no direct links with the Red Cross.
However, more misconducts of Red Cross have been exposed since then. For example, provincial branches of the Red Cross have been found charging learner drivers a fee for non-existent "rescue training." In another case, a land plot allocated to a branch of the Red Cross in Wuhan, capital of central Hubei Province, for storing disaster relief items is said to have been rented to a company for business use.
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