Announcement
10 Mar 2015
March 10th 2015 - The Chinese Ministry of Commerce issued the Catalogue for the Guidance of Foreign Investment (2015 edition), which entered into force on April 10th 2015. Compared to the its predecessor issued in 2011, the amended Catalogue contains changes in the following aspects:
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Number of interventions
2
1 certainly harmful
0 likely harmful
1 liberalising
List of interventions
1 in force
Implementation date
10 Apr 2015
Revocation date:
28 Jun 2017
FDI: Entry and ownership rule
More sectors are liberalised. The number of restricted sectors has been decreased from 79 to 38. The number of forbidden sectors has been decreased from 38 to 36. Manufacturing sectors are substantial...
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Implementation date
10 Apr 2015
Revocation date:
No revocation date
FDI: Entry and ownership rule
In force
However, the new regulation is also more restrictive in one respect: some new sectors such as geographical investigations, internet publishing, and cultural relic auctions etc. are added to the forbid...
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Related State Acts
29 Dec 2011
China: 'Foreign Investment Catalogue - 2011 edition' released
28 Jun 2017
China: 'Foreign Investment Catalogue - 2017 edition' released
28 Jun 2018
China: 'Foreign Investment Negative List - 2018 edition' released; nominally eases restrictions on inbound FDI
30 Jun 2019
China: 'Foreign Investment Negative List - 2019 Edition' released; further relaxes restrictions
30 Jun 2019
China: 'Encouraged Foreign Investment Catalogue - 2019 Edition' released; adds over 100 encouraged areas
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