The state appreciates the crucial gap unregistered orphanages fill– until something goes wrong. In January of this year, The Huffington Post reported on a fire that killed six children and one young adult “at an illegally run orphanage in central China:”
“The deaths Friday in Henan province’s Lankao county have spotlighted China’s lack of government-run child services. They are often left to private citizens with few resources and no legal authority. The Lankao government earlier acknowledged that it had turned a blind eye to the illegal orphanage, which cared for abandoned children and young adults.…The deputy county governor said earlier that some departments had failed in supervision and should shoulder responsibility.”
http://thediplomat.com/2013/07/with-one-eye-closed-illegal-orphanages-in-rural-china/
“The deaths Friday in Henan province’s Lankao county have spotlighted China’s lack of government-run child services. They are often left to private citizens with few resources and no legal authority. The Lankao government earlier acknowledged that it had turned a blind eye to the illegal orphanage, which cared for abandoned children and young adults.…The deputy county governor said earlier that some departments had failed in supervision and should shoulder responsibility.”
http://thediplomat.com/2013/07/with-one-eye-closed-illegal-orphanages-in-rural-china/