The Ministry of Public Security (MPS) is approving new Professional Supervisory Units (PSUs) to sponsor foreign NGOs, in addition to those that were originally included on the 2017 list of eligible PSUs. As of February 9, at least nine unlisted PSUs have sponsored foreign NGOs. As the MPS has previously stated, foreign NGOs may request that the MPS or local public security bureau add a new PSU to the list. If new PSUs are willing to act as sponsors, this might ameliorate difficulties certain foreign NGOs have experienced when their fields of work were not clearly represented on the initial 2017 list.