China’s Foreign Investment Regulation Reform - Key Updates and Analysis

The foreign investment regulation reform in China has been progressing significantly in recent years and a number of major steps have been taken. In September 2013, China opened a Pilot Free Trade Zone (FTZ) in Shanghai and issued several versions of the negative list regulating foreign investment in the zone since then. In 2014 the Chinese government released the draft of the new Foreign Investment Law and the new Foreign Investment Guidance Catalogue was published this year. Meanwhile, the Shanghai Pilot FTZ extended to Pudong district and new FTZs have been approved for Guangdong,Tianjin and Fujian.
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