China is permitting the formation of social organization on the condition that they become legal entities by registering with the government. An increasing number of these groups are engaging in environmental activities such as public education. They generally do so in close cooperation with government agencies. But China's laws on such organization permit only one organization to serve a particular constituency in any locality, and these organization are not allowed to exist in more than one jurisdiction. It is, therefore very difficult under current regulations for China to develop effective "green" NGOs that pull together the actual group of people effected by a particular environmental insult or issue.More broadly, officials's fears of any type of autonomous political organization make it very unlikely that real autonomous green movements will be tolerated any time soon.