Issues Relevant to Record Filing with the MOFTEC of FIEs in the Encourages Category That Are Above the Examination and Approval Limit of Provincial Level Foreign Tarde And Economic Cooperation Authorities Supplementary Circular

(Issued by the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation on May 31 2001.)

Pursuant to State laws and regulations and relevant State Council regulations on the attraction of foreign investment, the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation issued the Relevant Questions Concerning the Record Filing with the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation of the Examination and Approval by Local Authorities Themselves of Foreign Investment Enterprises under the Encouraged Category Circular (ref. [1999] Wai Jing Mao Zi Fa Zi No. 615, hereafter Circular 615) on 15 October 1999. We hereby issue the following supplementary circular on relevant specific matters in order to further improve the carrying out of such work:

1. The scope of business of the encouraged projects which do not require overall balancing by the State mentioned in Circular 615 must be in conformity with the encouraged category of the Foreign Investment Industrial Guidance Catalogue and with the Guiding Foreign Investment in the Dominant Industries of the Central and Western Regions Catalogue approved by the State Council and issued by two commissions and one ministry.