Announcement
28 Jun 2017
June 28th, 2017 - Several Chinese ministries released the official foreign investment 'catalogue', which announces fewer restrictions on where overseas entities can invest their money.
Source
Number of interventions
1
0 certainly harmful
0 likely harmful
1 liberalising
1 in force
Implementation date
28 Jun 2017
Revocation date:
No revocation date
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