Lobbying for Legislation

The student believed the seven month old cat, called Chiao Chiao, was dirty so he demanded the kitten’s owner wash the bed cover. The two students argued and ended up in a physical fight. In order to express his anger and teach the owner a lesson, the kitten was thrown repeatedly on the floor and […]

Aggravated by the rescue by animal protectionists of 520 dogs in Beijing destined for the slaughterhouse, a man from Guangzhou posted a message on his blog threatening to kill two dogs every day.

China still has no laws to protect animals. As part of our efforts to promote such legislation in the country, we have just published our latest study: Changing China: Country status report within the political and social context. The aim of this report is to help animal protection organisations to understand the legal system and […]

Since the latest horrendous crush film was released in China through the internet, ACTAsia has been working with over 40 Chinese animal protection groups to get it banned. We issued a joint statement and contacted the website hosts. We are very pleased to report that on December 2nd the State Administration of Radio, Film and […]

A draft animal protection law was created in 2009 by a committee of legal academics, chaired by Professor Chang Jiwen. However, the draft has recently been changed into an ‘anti-cruelty law’. All animal protectionists, including members of ACTAsia, are obviously very pleased about the beginning of the process to create animal protection legislation in China. […]

With efforts being made in China by legal academics to draft the country’s first animal welfare legislation, ACTAsia felt it was important to help animal groups to get involved in the legislative process, and our 4th Annual Workshop focused on this issue.

Chinese animal protection groups, law drafters and concerned influential academics came together for the first time at a forum to promote animal welfare legislation in Beijing, China on 4th September 2009. Our organising partners were the Capital Animal Welfare Association and the Alliance for Animals in China. Qin Xiao Na, Director of the Capital Animal […]