Foreign Direct Investment

Bo Hu

On March 15, 2019, China’s national legislature, the National People’s Congress passed the Foreign Investment Law (the “Law”), a landmark legislation that will provide stronger protection and a better business environment for foreign investors. The Law will take effective on January 1, 2020. Upon its effectiveness, the Law will replace China’s current foreign

Simon Li, Susie Shi

In the Year 2018, China has promulgated a series of new regulations and policies in relation to foreign investment, which indicates the government’s determination to further expand market opening-up, attract foreign investment and inject new impetus into market competition and innovation.

Set forth below is a timeline of the major foreign

These incentives are clearly response of the Chinese government toward the exodus of foreign investment in recent years. We see signs of relaxed control over the commercial activities in general, stronger intention to protect IPR, and national treatment to FIEs in areas like R&D. However it is more accurate to say these policies are currently

  Authored by Simon Li (lixiameng@anjielaw.com) and Bo Hu (hubo@anjielaw.com) at AnJie Law Firm

Over the Year 2016, the Chinese government has overhauled its regime of administration over foreign direct investment (“FDI”) by promulgating a series of amendments to laws and new regulations to introduce a record-filing process to replace the pre-approval process,