Editing Model United Nations (section)

==== Mainland China ====
Model United Nations first came to mainland China in 1995, when the [[China Foreign Affairs University]] held the country's first collegiate model United Nations conferences.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=贾 |first1=伽. |year=1995 |title=记外交学院首届模拟联合国活动 - China Academic Journals Full-text Database |url=http://oversea.cnki.net/kcms/detail/detail.aspx?filename=WJXY503.015&DBName=cjfqtotal&dbcode=cjfq |journal=外交学院学报 |issue=3 |page=60}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=25 April 2013 |title=Intro to CFAU-MUNA - Xinhua &#124; English.news.cn |url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/special/2013-04/25/c_132339467.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130509164033/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/special/2013-04/25/c_132339467.htm |archive-date=9 May 2013 |access-date=22 January 2016 |website=News.xinhuanet.com |df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=外交学院举办"2012北京模拟联合国大会" |url=http://zqb.cyol.com/html/2012-04/21/nw.D110000zgqnb_20120421_4-04.htm |access-date=22 January 2016 |website=Zqb.cyol.com}}</ref> Arriving in mainland Chinese high schools in 2005, Model UN expanded rapidly. [[Peking University|Peking University (PKU)]] students, after attending [[Harvard College|Harvard]]'s [[Harvard Model United Nations|HMUN]], organized the first national model UN conference for high school students in mainland China.<ref>{{cite news |date=23 September 2013 |title=模拟联合国 (MUN) 简介 |url=http://www.unachina.org/upload/Attach/default/272497.doc |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150115050959/http://www.unachina.org/upload/Attach/default/272497.doc |archive-date=15 January 2015 |publisher=U.N. Association of China |df=dmy-all}}</ref> PKU's conference was initially backed by [[United Nations Association of the United States of America|UNA-USA]], however support was curtailed in 2010 due to the [[Great Recession]].

Between 2005 and 2010, national Model United Nations conferences such as those organized by PKU and the rivaling Fudan University in Shanghai drew the best high school students from around the country, who competed for limited spaces. Over time, lesser-known national conferences, as well as regional and even local conferences for high school students, began to develop and gradually spread to cities beyond [[Beijing]] and [[Shanghai]].<ref name="theatlantic.com">{{cite web |last=Qian |first=Wendy |date=25 April 2013 |title=Romance! Money! Intrigue! It's Model UN ... in China |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/china/archive/2013/04/romance-money-intrigue-its-model-un-in-china/275308/2/ |work=The Atlantic}}</ref>

Most Model United Nations conferences in mainland China are organized through private or academic enterprises, however some government-affiliated MUNs have also flourished, and recently, unofficial student-run grassroots conferences have begun to dominate the Chinese MUN scene.<ref name="theatlantic.com" />

MITMUNC China was jointly organized online by [[ASDAN]] and the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] in 2020.<ref>{{Cite web |title=MIT Model United Nations Conference |url=https://mitmunc.org/china.html |access-date=2021-02-05 |website=mitmunc.org}}</ref>