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On December 27, 2021, the National Development and Reform Commission (“NDRC”) and the Ministry of Commerce jointly issued the Special Administrative Measures (Negative List) for Foreign Investment Access (2021 Edition)...more
Ever since China began opening up to the outside world, the right of foreign-invested enterprises ("FIEs") to make equity investments within the People's Republic of China (which for these purposes refers to Mainland China...more
With the ongoing US-China trade tension, what has been easily overlooked is China’s recent liberalization of its legal regime in the areas of foreign investment and foreign investors’ M&A activities in China. This...more
What do multinational corporations, private equity funds, and other foreign investors need to know? On March 15, 2019, the National People’s Congress of China approved The People’s Republic of China Foreign Investment Law...more
China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) as expected published three lists on foreign investment on June 30: a revised negative list applicable to the country as a whole (the...more
In less than six months, a new law will take effect in China that will have a major impact on foreign investment. The National Congress of the People’s Republic of China passed the Foreign Investment Law in March, three years...more
China presents some of the world’s most exciting opportunities, and a unique set of cultural, legal and political challenges. It has a distinct legal regime that in many respects cannot be understood by direct reference to...more
The General Office of China's State Council posted on June 16 the Special Measures on the Administration of Entry by Foreign Investment in Pilot Free Trade Zones (Negative List) (2017 edition) (Guobanfa [2017] No. 51, dated...more
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Action Item: China reforms its regulatory regime for managing FIEs by replacing existing MOFCOM approval requirements with a filing procedure nationwide. Beginning October 1, 2016, the incorporation of or a major change to an...more
On June 19, 2015, China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (“MIIT”) promulgated a new policy, Opinions on Lifting Restrictions on the Foreign Equity Ratio for Online Data Processing and Transaction Processing...more
Further to the early 2014 policy that relaxed the restrictions on the foreign equity ratio in value-added telecommunications business in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone (“Shanghai FTZ”), on January 15, 2015, the Ministry of...more
The launch of the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone (FTZ) last September attracted a lot of attention both inside and outside of China. Since then, the lack of progress implementing stated goals for the FTZ as a...more
Amidst high hopes in the foreign investment community for a streamlined framework regulating inbound investment to the PRC, China’s State Council launched the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone (the “SFTZ” or “Zone”) in...more
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On September 29, 2013, China launched the mainland’s first free trade zone (FTZ) in Shanghai. The initiative is intended to be a pilot program to provide a blueprint of how China will reform its economic structure. The FTZ is...more
China officially launched the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone (the “SHFTZ”) on September 29, 2013 and on the same day published a long-awaited and longer-than-expected “negative list” setting forth industry sectors...more
The China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone (PFTZ) officially launched on September 29th, granting 25 Chinese and overseas companies licenses to register in the PFTZ on its first day. The General Plan for the PFTZ was...more
On September 29, 2013, China launched its long-awaited Shanghai Free Trade Zone (SFTZ), which is widely viewed as the most significant milestone in the country’s economic reform since the establishment of Shenzhen Economic...more
Following the announcement in July of an ambitious plan to develop mainland China’s first free trade zone in Shanghai, there have been several recent developments relating to the forming and unveiling of the zone. ...more
Shanghai mayor Yang Xiong unveiled new plans to develop mainland China’s first free trade zone in Shanghai last January....more