China's Ministry of Civil Affairs has set up a Social Welfare and Charity Causes Promotion Department focusing on welfare lotteries; charity and social donations; welfare for the elderly and the disabled; and children's welfare.

Wang Zhenyao, the former director of MCA's Disaster and Social Relief Department, will be the director of the new department.

The new department will further promote an all-round social security system with social insurance, social relief, social welfare, and charity causes working together, and it will also do much more for China's charity causes.

The former Charity Causes Coordination Office founded in December 2007 by the MCA will also be under aegis of the Social Welfare and Charity Causes Promotion Department.