China Welfare Institute

The China Welfare Institute (CWI; 中国福利会) was founded by Soong Ching Ling, the wife of Sun Yat-sen, in Hong Kong on June 14, 1938.

It is one of the oldest and most influential NGOs nationwide in China.

[1] The institute worked on improving conditions for women and children.

As part of this, the CWI ran two publishing houses, the Children’s Epoch Magazine House and CWI Publishing House; the two merged in 2007 to form the China Welfare Institute Publishing House Company.

[2] In 2008, the CWI also set up the Soon Ching Ling School which had almost 1,000 students in 2024.