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One office and eight departments are established in the China Center of Adoption Affairs. Their responsibilities are: ˘ñ Administrative Office Responsible for: receiving and delivering adoption documents and information; drafting general reports, proof-reading official documents, supervising and managing particular cases and doing confidential work; making external communications, offering consulting service about adoption policies, receiving foreign visitors, and coordinating with concrete matters for protection of interests of internationally adopted children; managing human resources, wages and fixed assets; and coordinating with work of different departments at the CCAA. ˘òAdopter's Eligibility Review Department Responsible for: verifying qualification of foreign adoption agencies; proposing concrete qualifying standards of foreign adopters who want to adopt in China; reviewing adoption application and relevant certifying documents submitted by foreign governments or adoption agencies appointed by foreign governments; making regular assessments of inter-country adoption practice of foreign adoption agencies which perform China adoption program; managing training of contact persons in China who are employed by foreign adoption agencies. ˘ó Child's Inter-Country Placement Department Responsible for: selecting and placing adoptees for foreign adopters; making regular notifications of adoptees' status; communicating with adoption registry offices in provinces in case that problems arise during the course of registration; making studies and proposing regulations of inter-country adoption work in welfare institutions, making training courses and giving instructions. ˘ô Domestic Adoption Department Responsible for: making investigations and studies to develop domestic adoption program and giving comments and suggestions on policy-making; making studies and proposing recommendations for regulating domestic adoption practice and assisting in implementing such regulations; developing consulting service for domestic adoption program; coordinating and undertaking domestic inter-province adoption service; undertaking daily work of the Tomorrow Plan which is launched by the Ministry of Civil Affairs. ˘ġChild-Raising Department Responsible for: making studies and proposing recommendations on scientific child-raising programs in social welfare institutions; making studies and proposing recommendations on criteria and standards for work of child-raising in social welfare institutions; undertaking management of training courses for child-raising in social welfare institutions; introducing and promoting advanced methods, programs and experiences for child-raising from within China or abroad. ˘ö Archives Management Department Responsible for: making, for parties concerned, archives and records of adoption documents, certifying documents, and documents made out of review and approval formalities, and keeping them; receiving checks and inquiries about adoption archives; following up with post-adoption situation of adoptees. ˘÷ Information and Technology Department Responsible for: constructing information network at the CCAA; making studies and laying down plans on construction of information network for adoption program; organizing resources and developing software for management of adoption work; controlling and maintaining functions of internet and intranet at the CCAA; undertaking management of training courses for usage of computer operating system. ˘ĝ Finance Department Responsible for: receiving adoption service fees from foreign adopters; receiving and supervising donation fees for projects given by foreign governments and adoption agencies; running and managing relevant funds and managing internal financial affairs at the CCAA. ˘ù General Affairs Department Responsible for: managing real estate, letting and running offices; safeguarding and managing logistics. |