Chinese people donated to charity almost 3.6 billion times through online services in the first half of 2018, a senior official said at a meeting in Beijing on Monday.

Online donations to some charity organizations accounted for over 80 percent of their total collections, Gao Xiaobing, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, said during his speech at the meeting.

By Jan. 11, 2019, China has registered over 810,000 social organizations and more than 400 foreign non-government organizations, and approved the registration of 5,355 charity organizations, Gao added.

China received donations of both money and goods worth more than 149.9 billion yuan in 2017, up 7.68 percent from the previous year, according to the China Charity Federation, one of the country’s most influential charity organizations.