Ministry of Construction and Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, Administration of Foreign-invested Urban Planning Services Enterprises Provisions

Promulgated: February 13 2003
Effective: May 1 2003
Applicability: Foreign-invested urban planning services enterprises include Sino-foreign equity or cooperative joint ventures and wholly foreign-owned enterprises. "Urban planning services" means the formulation and consultancy activities of urban planning excluding the overall urban planning (Article 3).

Main contents: The Provisions detail on the qualifications of and procedures for establishment of foreign-invested urban planning services enterprises. An Urban Planning Services Qualification Certificate for Foreign-invested Enterprises is required for engaging in urban planning services (Article 4). The party must be an enterprise or professional technical individual engaged in urban planning services in its own country or region (Article 6).
Related legislation: PRC Sino-foreign Equity Joint Venture Law (2nd Revision), Mar 15 2001, CLP 2001 No.3 p5; PRC Sino-foreign Cooperative Joint Venture Law (Revised), Oct 31 2000, CLP 2000 No.10 p4; PRC Wholly Foreign-owned Enterprise Law (Revised), Oct 31 2000, CLP 2000 No.10 p4 and PRC Urban Planning Law, Dec 26 1989