Foreign Direct Investment

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,