Foreign Investment Industrial Guidance Catalogue (Amended in 2015)

1. Agriculture, Forestry, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries

(1) Cultivation, development and production with respect to edible oils, flavourings and industrial raw materials that are from woody plants.

(2) Development of cultivation technologies for green and organic vegetables (including edible fungi, watermelons and musk melons), dried and fresh fruits, and tea, and production of products thereof.

(3) Development of new cultivation technologies for crops such as sugar crops, fruit trees and pasturage, and production of products thereof.

(4) Production of flowers and plants and the construction and operation of nursery centres.

(5) Planting of rubber, oil palm, sisal and coffee.

(6) Growing and breeding of traditional Chinese medicine materials.

(7) Mulching and comprehensive utilisation of crop straw and the development and production of organic fertiliser resources.

(8) Breeding of aquaculture brood stock (not including precious and fine varieties unique to China).

(9) Construction and operation of ecological environment protection projects such as the planting of trees and grasses to prevent and treat desertification and prevent water loss and soil erosion.

(10) Breeding of aquaculture products, deep water net-pen breeding, industrialisation aquaculture, and ecological mariculture.

2. Mining

(11) Exploration and development of petroleum and natural gas (including non-conventional oil and gas such as oil shale, bituminous sands, shale gas and coalbed methane) and utilisation of mine gas (limited to equity and cooperative joint ventures).

(12) Development and application of enhanced crude oil recovery technologies (in the form of engineering services) and related new technologies.

(13) Development and application of new technologies for petroleum exploration and development such as geophysical prospecting, drilling, logging and downhole operation.

(14) Development and application of new technologies that increase the utilisation rate of mine tailings and the comprehensive application of technologies for the restoration of mine ecologies.

(15) Exploration, mining and dressing of minerals that are in short supply in China (e.g. sylvite, chromite, etc.).

3. Manufacturing

(I) Processing of Agricultural Non-staple Foodstuffs.

(16) Development of environmentally friendly feeds and additives.

(17) Processing of aquatic products, cleansing and processing of shellfish and development of health foods derived from kelp.

(18) Processing of vegetables, dried and fresh fruits, and poultry and livestock products.

(II) Foodstuff Manufacturing

(19) Development and production of infant and geriatric foodstuffs and health foods.

(20) Development and production of forest foodstuffs.

(21) Development of new technologies for, and production of, natural food additives and natural flavours.

(III) Manufacturing of Alcoholic Beverages, Beverages and Fine Teas

(22) Development and production of fruit, vegetable, protein, tea, coffee and plant-based beverages.

(IV) Textile Industry

(23) Production of light-weight, high-strength, high/low temperature resistant, chemical resistant, light resistant, etc. multifunctional industrial use textiles using non-woven, machine woven and knitted processes and technologies and combinations thereof.

(24) Printing, dyeing and finishing of high-grade fabrics using advanced energy-saving and low-emission technologies and equipment.

(25) Processing of special natural fibre (including special animal fibres, such as cashmere, bamboo fibre, hemp fibre, silk, coloured cotton, etc.) products that satisfy ecological, resource comprehensive utilisation and environmental protection requirements.

(V) Textile Clothing and Adornment Industry

(26) Apparel production using computer integrated manufacturing systems.

(27) Production of special functional clothing.

(VI) Industry of Leather, Fur, Feathers and Their Products and Shoe Making Industry

(28) Processing of leather and fur using clean technologies.

(29) Leather finishing using new technologies.

(30) Comprehensive utilisation of leather waste.

(VII) Lumber Processing and Wooden, Bamboo, Rattan, Coir and Grass Product Industry

(31) Development of new technologies for the comprehensive utilisation of the three forestry residues (i.e. residues from cutting, bucking and processing), secondary wood, small wood, fuel wood and bamboo from forest areas, and the development and production of new products from such comprehensive utilisation.

(VIII) Manufacturing of Educational, Art, Sports and Leisure Supplies and Equipment

(32) Production of high-end carpets, embroidery and drawnwork products.

(IX) Petroleum Processing, and Coking and Nuclear Fuel Processing Industries

(33) Phenol oil processing, wash oil processing and high-end utilisation of coal tar pitch (excluding modified pitch).

(X) Chemical Raw Material and Chemical Product Manufacturing

(34) Development and production of new downstream products of sodium-process calcium hypocholorite, polyvinyl chloride and organic silicon.

(35) Ancillary raw materials for synthetic materials: production of epoxypropane by oxidising propylene with hydrogen peroxide, naphthalene dicarboxylate (NDC) 1,4-cyclohexanedimethanol (CHDM), 50,000 tonnes/year and above of adiponitrile by butadiene method, and hexanediamine

(36) Raw materials for synthetic fibres: production of nylon 66 salt and 1,3-propanediol.

(37) Synthetic rubber: production of isoprene rubber, polyurethane rubber, acrylic ester rubber, chlorohydrine rubber and special rubbers, such as fluororubber and silicon rubber.

(38) Engineering plastics and plastic alloys: Production of products such as 60,000 tonnes per year or more of polycarbonate (PC) by a phosgene-free method, polyoxymethylene by homopolymerisation, polyphenylene sulfide, polyetheretherketone, polyimides, polysulfone, polyethersulfone, polyarylate (PAR), polyphenylene oxide and its modified materials, and liquid crystal polymers.

(39) Fine chemicals: production of new catalysts and new technologies therefor, processing technology for the commercialisation of dyes (pigments), electronic chemicals and paper making chemicals, leather chemicals (with the exception of N-N dimethyl formamide), oil field auxiliaries, surfactants, water treatment agents, adhesives, inorganic fibres and inorganic nanometre materials, as well as treatment and further processing of pigment integument.

(40) Production of environmentally friendly printing inks and aromatic oils.

(41) Production of natural, compound and mono-isolate flavours.

(42) Production of high performance coatings, high solid content and solvent-free coatings, water-based industrial coatings and ancillary water-based resins.

(43) Production of high performance fluororesin, fluorinated film materials, fluorine containing intermediates for medical use, environmentally friendly fluorine-containing refrigerants, cleansers and foaming agents.

(44) Production of fluorine resources recovered from phosphorus chemistry and aluminium smelting.

(45) Development and production of new forestry chemical products and the development of new technologies therefor.

(46) Development and production of inorganic, organic and biological films for environmental protection purposes.

(47) Development and production of new fertilisers: concentrated potassium fertilisers, compound microbial inoculants, compound microbial fertilisers, straw and refuse decomposition agents, and microbial preparations with special functions.

(48) Development and production of effective, safe and environmentally friendly new agrochemicals, new formulations, special purpose intermediates and adjuvants as well as the development and application of relevant clean production processes (acetochlor by the methylene method, chlorpyrifos process by the aqueous phase method, process for recovering chloromethane from glyphosate, production of chiral and stereo agrochemicals by the oriented synthesis method and technology for synthesising diethyl thiophosphoryl chloride).

(49) Development and production of biological agrochemicals and biological control products: microbial pesticides, microbial bactericides, agricultural antibiotics, insect pheromones, natural enemy insects and microbial herbicides.

(50) Comprehensive use, treatment and disposal of waste gas, waste liquids and waste residue.

(51) Production of organic high polymer materials: coatings for the skin of aircraft, red dye in rare earth cerium sulfide, lead free electronic encapsulating materials, serial photo resist specially for colour plasma displays, ultra-thin fibres having small diameters and high specific surface area, precision fuel filter paper, lithium ion battery membranes, self-healing materials for surface treatment, and superhydrophobic nanometre coating materials.

(XI) Medicine Manufacturing

(52) Production of new compound pharmaceuticals or active ingredient pharmaceuticals (including raw pharmaceutical materials and preparations).

(53) Amino acids: production of tryptophan, histidine, methionine, etc. by fermentation.

(54) Development and production of new anti-cancer drugs, new cardio- and cerebro-vascular drugs and new neurological pharmaceuticals.

(55) Production of new pharmaceuticals using bio-engineering technology.

(56) Production of AIDS vaccine, hepatitis C vaccine, contraceptive vaccine as well as new vaccines against cervical cancer, malaria, hand, foot and mouth disease, etc.

(57) Development and production of drugs from marine organisms.

(58) Pharmaceutical preparations: production of new agents and products that use new technologies such as sustained release, controlled release, targeting and transdermal absorption.

(59) Development and production of new ancillary materials for pharmaceuticals.

(60) Production of raw veterinary antibacterial agents (including antibiotics and chemical synthetics).

(61) Production of new veterinary antibacterial drugs, vermifuges, pesticides and coccidiostats, and new forms thereof.

(62) Development and production of new diagnostic reagents.

(XII) Chemical Fibre Manufacturing

(63) Production of high and new technology chemical fibres such as differential chemical fibres and aramid fibres, carbon fibres, high tensile high modulus polyethylene and polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) (excluding viscose fibre).

(64) Production of new polyesters of fibre-grade or for use other than for fibres: Polytrimethylene terephthalate (PTT), polyethylene naphthalate (PEN), polycyclohexylene dimethylene terephthalate (PCT) and modified polyethylene terephthalate glycol (PETG).

(65) Use of new recyclable resources and environmentally friendly processes to produce bio-fibres, including cellulose fibre by the new solvent method (Lyocell), recycled cellulose fibres from raw materials such as bamboo and hemp, polylactic acid fibres (PLA), chitin fibre, polyhydroxyalkanoate fibre (PHA), plant and animal protein fibres, etc.

(66) Development and production of new polyamides, such as nylon 11, nylon 1414, nylon 46, long carbon chain nylon and high temperature resistant nylon.

(67) Production of aramid fibres and cord for radial tyres.

(XIII) Rubber and Plastic Product Industry

(68) Development and production of new photo ecological multifunction wide-format agricultural films.

(69) Recycling of waste and old plastic material.

(70) Development of new technologies for plastic soft packaging, and development and production of new products thereof (high separation, multifunctional films and raw materials).

(XIV) Non-metallic Ore Product Industry

(71) Development and production of energy saving, environmentally friendly, waste reusing, light-weight, high-strength, high performance and multifunction construction materials.

(72) Production of chemical construction materials that use plastic instead of steel or wood and that offer high energy savings and are effective.

(73) Production of waterproof coiled materials for elastomer, plastomer modified asphalt (annual production of at least 10 million square metres), wide-format (at least 2 metres) ethylene prop-ylene diene monomer rubber waterproof coiled materials and ancillary materials, wide-format (at least 2 metres) polyvinyl chloride waterproof coiled materials and TPO waterproof coiled materials.

(74) Development and production of new technology functional glass: electromagnetic shielding glass, glass substrates for microelectronics, infrared transmitting lead-free glass, electronics-grade large-size quartz glass products (tubes, plates, crucibles, instruments and wares, etc.), superior optical performance multifunction windshield glass, extreme materials and their products for information technology (including quartz glass bushings from waveguide grade high precision optical fibre pre-formed rods, and ceramic substrates), and purification of high purity (≥ 99.998%) and ultra pure (≥99.999%) crystal raw materials.

(75) Production of conductive glass for thin film batteries, glass for solar collectors and conductive glass used in construction.

(76) Production of glass fibre products and special glass fibres: low dielectric glass fibre, quartz glass fibre, high silica glass fibre, high-strength flexible glass fibre, ceramic fibre, etc. and their products.

(77) Production of optical fibres and their products: image bundle and laser medicine optical fibre, super second generation and third generation microchannel plates, optical fibre faceplates, image inverters and glass light cones.

(78) Standardised fine manufacture of ceramic raw materials and production of high-grade decoration materials for ceramics.

(79) Production of environmentally friendly (non-chromated) refractory materials for use in kilns and furnaces such as cement, electronic glass, ceramics and micropore carbon bricks.

(80) Production of aluminium nitride (AIN) ceramic substrate and porous ceramics.

(81) Production of inorganic non-metal new materials and their products: composite materials, special types of ceramics, special types of sealing materials (including high-speed oil seal materials), special friction materials (including high-speed friction braking products), special types of gelling materials, special latex materials, sonar rubber products and nano materials.

(82) Production of organic-inorganic syntactic foam insulation materials.

(83) Production of hi-tech compound materials: continuous fibre reinforced thermoplastic compound materials and pre-impregnated materials, process auxiliary materials for the shaping of resin matrix composites capable of withstanding heat > 300°C, resin matrix composites (including sports articles, and light-weight and high-strength components for means of transportation), special function composites and their products (including deep water and submarine composite products and composite products for medical and rehabilitation purposes), carbon/carbon composite materials, high performance ceramic matrix composites and their products, metal matrix and glass matrix composite materials and their products, metal laminated composites and their products, ultra-high pressure composite rubber tubing capable of withstanding pressures 320MPa, and tyres for large passenger aircraft.

(84) Production of precision high-performance ceramic raw materials: superfine powdered silicon carbide (SiC) (purity > 99%, average particle diameter < 1µm), superfine powdered silicon nitride (Si₃N₄) (purity > 99%, average particle diameter 99.9%, average particle diameter < 0.5µm), low temperature powdered sintered zirconium dioxide (ZrO₂) (sintering temperature 99%, average particle diameter < 1µm), powdered rutile TiO₂ (purity > 98.5%), white carbon black (particle diameter 99%, particle diameter < 1µm).

(85) Development and production of high quality artificial crystals and crystal film products: high quality synthetic crystals (piezoelectric crystals and ultraviolet transmitting crystals), superhard crystals (cubic boron nitride crystals), high temperature resistant, high insulating synthetic insulating crystals (synthetic mica), new electro-optic crystals, high-power laser crystals and large scintillating crystals, diamond film tools, and super-thin artificial diamond saw blades no thicker than 0.3mm.

(86) Fine processing of non-metallic ores (super-fine pulverising, high purity, fine manufacture, modification) into downstream products.

(87) Production of ultrahigh power graphite electrodes.

(88) Production of pearlescent mica (with a particle diameter of 3-150µm).

(89) Production of multidimensional, multi-directional integrated weaving fabric and modelling fabric and contoured textiles.

(90) Non-hazardous disposal of solid waste by using new dry process cement kilns.

(91) Recycling of construction waste.

(92) Comprehensive utilisation of industrial byproduct gypsum.

(93) Development and application of new technologies for the comprehensive utilisation of tailings from non-metal mines and remediation of mine ecologies.

(XV) Non-ferrous Metal Smelting and Rolling

(94) Production of silicon monocrystals with a diameter of at least 200mm and polished wafers.

(95) Production of hi-tech non-ferrous materials: compound semiconductor materials (gallium arsenide, gallium phosphide, indium phosphide, gallium nitride), high temperature superconducting materials, memory alloys (titanium nickel alloy, copper matrix and iron matrix memory alloys), ultra-thin (nanometre) calcium carbide and ultra-thin (nanometre) crystalline hard alloys, super hard composites, precious metal composites, combinations of light metal composites and dissimilar materials, aluminium foil for heat dissipaters, capacitance aluminium foil for medium and high voltage cathodes, special large aluminium alloy bars, aluminium alloy precision stamp work, overhead lead wires for electrified railways, ultra-thin copper strip, copper alloy materials for corrosion resistant heat exchangers, high performance copper nickel, copper iron alloy strip, beryllium copper strip, wire, tubing and bar processed materials, heat resistant anti-fading tungsten filament, magnesium alloy cast goods, lead free soldering flux, magnesium alloys and their application products, foamed aluminium, titanium alloy smelting and processing, nuclear grade zirconium sponge, further processed tungsten and molybdenum products.

(XVI) Metal Product Industry

(96) Research, development and manufacture of new lighter and environmentally friendly materials for aviation, aerospace, automobiles and motorcycles (special aluminium sheet, aluminium magnesium alloys, aluminium alloy frames for motorcycles, etc.).

(97) Research, development and manufacture of light-metal and semi-solid rapid prototyping materials.

(98) Manufacture and processing of metal packaging products (with a thickness of less than 0.3mm) used to package contents such as various types of grains, oils, foodstuffs, fruits, vegetables, beverages and articles of daily use (including the printing of the inner and outer walls of the products).

(99) Manufacture of nickel-saving stainless steel products.

(XVII) General Equipment Manufacturing

(100) Manufacture of high-end numerically controlled machine tools and key parts and components: 5-axis ganged numerically controlled machine tools, numerically controlled jig borer machining centres, numerically controlled jig grinders, 5-axis ganged numerically controlled systems and servo devices, high speed super hard cutting tools for precision numerically controlled machining.

(101) Manufacture of multi-station machines weighing at least 1,000 tonnes.

(102) Manufacture of equipment for the dismantling, crushing and post-processing and sorting of decommissioned motor vehicles.

(103) Manufacture of FTL flexible production lines.

(104) Manufacture of vertical multi-jointed industrial robots, welding robots and their welding devices and equipment.

(105) Manufacture of special processing machinery: sets of laser cutting and welding equipment, laser precision processing equipment, numerically controlled low-speed cross-threading electric-spark line cutting machines and sub-micron grade ultra-fine crushers.

(106) Manufacture of wheeled or tracked lifting machinery weighing of at least 400 tonnes.

(107) Design and manufacture of high pressure piston pumps and motors operating at a working pressure of ≥ 35MPa and low-speed high-torque motors operating at a working pressure of ≥ 35MPa.

(108) Manufacture of integral hydraulic selector valves operating at a working pressure of ≥ 25MPa and electrohydraulic proportional servo components.

(109) Design and manufacture of valve terminals, pneumatic electromagnetic valves (power of not more than 0.35W) and high frequency electropneumatic valves (200Hz and above).

(110) Design and manufacture of hydrostatic actuating devices.

(111) Development and manufacture of non-contact gas film seals (pressure of at least 10MPa), dry gas seals (including testing devices) (pressure of at least 10MPa).

(112) Development and manufacture of high polymer material (friction discs, modified phenolic pistons, non-metallic hydraulic master wheel cylinders, etc.) equipment for motor vehicles.

(113) Manufacture of third or above generation sedan hub bearings, bearings for high and medium end digitally controlled machine tools and machining centres, bearings for high-speed wire and steel sheet rolling mills, high-speed rail bearings, low noise bearing with a vibration value of less than Z4, P4 and P2 grade bearings of various types, bearings for wind turbines and aviation bearings.

(114) Manufacture of high-density, high-precision and complex-shaped powder metallurgy components as well as chains for motor vehicles, construction machinery, etc.

(115) Manufacture of gear transmissions for wind turbines and high-speed trains, variable pitch gear transmission systems for vessels and large and heavy load bearing gear boxes.

(116) Manufacture of high-heat resistant insulating materials (insulating grade F or H) and shaped insulators.

(117) Development and manufacture of accumulator bladders, and rubber and plastic hydraulic and pneumatic seals.

(118) Manufacture of high precision, high-strength (12.9 grade and above), special-shaped, combination type fasteners.

(119) Manufacture of miniature precision transmission couplers (clutches).

(120) Manufacture of large coupling shafts for rolling mills.

(121) Re-manufacture of machinery and equipment, such as machine tools, construction machinery and locomotive equipment, and re-manufacture of automotive parts and components.

(122) Manufacture of 10 megapixel and above digital cameras.

(123) Manufacture of office machinery: multipurpose integrated office equipment (photocopying, printing, facsimile and scanning), colour printing equipment, precision of 2,400 dpi and above high resolution colour print heads and photosensitive drums.

(124) Manufacture of motion picture machinery: 2K and 4K digital movie projectors, digital movie cameras, digital video production and editing equipment.

(XVIII) Specialised Equipment Manufacturing

(125) Manufacture of mining trackless extraction, loading and transport equipment; mechanical transmission dumpers for mine use with a capacity of 200 tonnes or more; movable crushers; bucket wheel excavators with a capacity of 5,000 m³/hour or more; loaders for mine use with a capacity of 8 m³ or more; 2,500 kW and above electric traction coal cutting equipment, etc.

(126) Manufacture of geophysical exploration (excluding gravity and magnetic surveying) and well-logging equipment: MEME seismic detectors; digital telemetering seismographs; digital imaging and numerically controlled well-logging systems; horizontal well, directional well and drilling devices and apparatus; and MWD logging while drilling instruments.

(127) Manufacture of oil exploration, drilling, collection and transport equipment: floating drilling systems and floating production systems for working depths of greater than 1,500 metres, and supporting sea-floor oil extraction, gathering and transportation equipment.

(128) Manufacture of large aperture (at least 2 metres) rotary drilling machines capable of depths of at least 30 metres, pipe pushers with a diameter of at least 1.2 metres, large sets of non-excavating underground pipe laying equipment with a pull-back force of at least 300 tonnes, and underground continuous wall borers.

(129) Design and manufacture of large bulldozers of at least 520hp.

(130) Design and manufacture of dredging machines capable of dredging at least 100m³/hour, and design and manufacture of mud dredging mechanisms for dredging vessels of 1,000 tonnes or above.

(131) Design and manufacture of construction equipment for concrete cut-off walls for flood prevention levees.

(132) Manufacture of underwater earth-rock construction machinery: bulldozers, loaders, excavators, etc., operating in depths less than 9 metres.

(133) Manufacture of equipment for the maintenance and automatic monitoring of highway bridges.

(134) Manufacture of equipment for highway tunnel operation monitoring, ventilation, disaster prevention and emergency rescue systems.

(135) Design and manufacture of repair and maintenance machinery and inspection and monitoring equipment for large-scale railway construction, rail lines, bridges and tunnels, and key parts and components thereof.

(136) Manufacture of (asphalt) shingle equipment, production equipment for metal roofs, such as galvanised sheet roofs.

(137) Manufacture of on-site polyurethane spray waterproof thermal insulation system equipment that is environmentally friendly and energy saving, formulation technologies and equipment for polyurethane sealing compounds, formulation technologies and production equipment for modified silicone sealing compounds.

(138) Design and manufacture of high precision strip rolling mills (thickness accuracy of 10 microns).

(139) Manufacture of dressing apparatus for multi-element, fine particle refractory metal ores.

(140) Manufacture of key component equipment for sets of ethylene equipment with an annual capacity of at least 1 million tonnes per year: hybrid pelletisers with an annual processing capacity of 400,000 tonnes, screw discharge centrifuges with a diameter of at least 1000mm, low flow-rate high-lift centrifugal pumps.

(141) Design and manufacture of dies for metal products (copper, aluminium, titanium and zirconium tubing, bar and section compression dies).

(142) Design and manufacture of stamping dies for vehicle body covering components, large injection moulds for automotive instrument panels, bumpers, etc., clamps and testing tools for automobiles and motorcycles.

(143) Design and manufacture of special purpose production equipment for automotive power batteries.

(144) Design and manufacture of precision dies (stamping dies of a precision exceeding 0.02 mm, cavity dies of a precision exceeding 0.05 mm).

(145) Design and manufacture of dies for non-metal products.

(146) Manufacture of beer bottling equipment with a capacity of at least 60,000 bottles per hour, beverage medium temperature and hot bottling equipment with a capacity of at least 50,000 bottles per hour, sterile bottling equipment with a capacity of at least 36,000 bottles per hour.

(147) Manufacture of production technologies and key equipment for amino acids, enzymic preparations, food additives, etc.

(148) Manufacture of complete sets of feed processing equipment with a capacity of 10 tonnes/hour or more, and of key parts and components therefor.

(149) Manufacture of equipment for light corrugated cardboard with a ridge height of not more than 0.75mm and cardboard boxes.

(150) Manufacture of sheet-fed multi-colour offset printing presses (width ≥ 750 mm; printing speed: single-sided multicolour ≥ 16,000 pages per hour, double-sided multi-colour ≥ 13,000 pages per hour).

(151) Manufacture of single-sided single sheet track paper roll fed offset printing presses with a printing speed of 75,000 folio sheets per hour (787 X 880mm), double-sided single sheet track paper roll fed offset printing presses with a printing speed of 170,000 folio sheets per hour (787 X 880mm), commercial paper roll fed offset printing presses with a printing speed of 50,000 folio sheets per hour (787 X 880mm).

(152) Manufacture of multi-colour wide flexographic printing presses (printing width ≥ 1,300 mm, printing speed ≥ 350 metres per second), inkjet digital printing presses (for publication: printing speed ≥ 150 metres per minute, resolution ≥ 600 dpi; for packaging: printing speed ≥ 30 metres per minute, resolution ≥ 1,000 dpi; for variable data: printing speed ≥ 100 metres per minute, resolution ≥ 300 dpi).

(153) Manufacture of computerised colour pre-setting, colour remote control, ink speed tracking and printed matter quality automatic testing and tracking systems, high-speed (75,000 sheets per hour) automatic paper receiving machines, paper feeding machines and high speed automatic remote controlled and adjustable page folding machines with shaftless drive technology, automatic register systems, cooling devices, silicon adding systems, deviation adjustment devices, etc.

(154) Manufacture of auto plating-film machines with electronic guns.

(155) Manufacture of technologies and equipment for the processing of plate glass into downstream products.

(156) Manufacture of complete sets of equipment such as new types of paper-making (including pulp-making) machinery, etc.

(157) Manufacture of leather finishing equipment incorporating new technology.

(158) Development and manufacture of new equipment for the processing and storage of agricultural products: new equipment for processing, storing, keeping fresh, grading, packaging, drying, etc. products such as grains, edible oils, vegetables, dried and fresh fruits, meat, aquaculture products, etc., instruments and equipment for testing the quality of agricultural products, instruments and equipment for the non-destructive testing of the quality of agricultural products, rheometers, farinographs, ultra-fine grinding equipment, high efficiency dehydrating equipment, high efficiency fruit juice concentration equipment of at least grade five, sterilising equipment for powdered foodstuffs and materials, sterile packaging equipment for solid and semi-solid foodstuffs, and disc separators.

(159) Manufacture of agricultural machinery: agricultural facilities and equipment (automatic watering equipment for greenhouses, automatic nutrient dispensing and fertiliser application equipment, high efficiency vegetable nursery equipment, soil nutrient analyzing instruments), tractors equipped with engines generating not less than 120 kW and ancillary agricultural implements, diesel engines of low fuel consumption, low noise and low emission, large tractor pulled sprayers with devices for the recovery of leftover spray particles, high performance rice paddy seedling planting machines, cotton pickers, self-propelled corn combine harvesters adaptable to various row widths (hydraulic or mechanical drive), peanut harvesters, rapeseed harvesters, sugar cane harvesters and sugar beet harvesters.

(160) Manufacture of new technology equipment for forestry machinery.

(161) Manufacture of equipment for the gathering, binding and comprehensive utilisation of crop straw.

(162) Manufacture of equipment for the utilisation of agricultural waste and waste from the large-scale raising and breeding of livestock and poultry as resources.

(163) Manufacture of agricultural technologies and equipment that save on fertiliser, agrochemicals and water.

(164) Manufacture of mechanical and electric well cleaning equipment and equipment for the production of cleaning agents.

(165) Manufacture of electronic endoscopes.

(166) Manufacture of eyeground cameras.

(167) Manufacture of key components for medical imaging equipment (high-field strength superconducting magnetic resonance imaging equipment, X-ray computed tomography equipment, digital colour ultrasonic diagnostic equipment, etc.).

(168) Manufacture of ultrasonic transducers (3D) for medical purposes.

(169) Manufacture of boron neutron capture therapy equipment.

(170) Manufacture of image-guided intensity-modulated radiation therapy systems.

(171) Manufacture of hemodialysis machines and hemofilters.

(172) Manufacture of fully automated biochemical monitoring devices, 5-part differential hematology analysers, fully automated chemiluminescence immunoassay analysers, and high-throughput DNA sequencing systems.

(173) Manufacture of new technologies and new equipment for controlling the quality of pharmaceuticals.

(174) Development and manufacture of new technologies for the analysis of active substances in natural pharmaceuticals, and new processes and new equipment for their extraction.

(175) Manufacture of multi-layer co-extrusion water-cooled plastic film blowing equipment for non-PVC medical infusion bags.

(176) Development and manufacture of new textile machinery, key parts and components, and textile testing and experimental instruments.

(177) Manufacture of computerised jacquard artificial fur machines.

(178) Manufacture of equipment for the production of solar batteries.

(179) Manufacture of equipment for the prevention and treatment of air pollution: high temperature resistant and corrosion resistant filter media, low NOx combustion devices, catalysts for flue gas denitrification and sets of denitrification devices, equipment for the purification of organic industrial waste gas, devices for the purification of diesel vehicle exhaust, devices for the treatment of heavy metal containing waste gas.

(180) Manufacture of equipment for the prevention and treatment of water pollution: horizontal screw centrifugal dehydrators, membrane and membrane materials, ozone generators with a capacity of 50 kg or more per hour, chlorine dioxide generators with a capacity of 10 kg or more per hour, ultraviolet sterilising devices, small-sized equipment for the treatment of rural domestic sewage and devices for the treatment of heavy metal containing wastewater.

(181) Manufacture of equipment for the treatment and disposal of solid waste: sludge disposal and resource utilisation equipment for sewage treatment plants, sets of garbage incineration equipment with a daily treatment capacity of 500 tonnes or more, technologies and devices for the treatment of buried waste leachate, impermeable geomembranes for landfills, construction waste treatment and resource utilisation devices, hazardous waste treatment devices, landfill methane power generation devices, waste steel and iron treatment equipment and equipment for the remediation of contaminated soil.

(182) Development and manufacture of equipment for the comprehensive utilisation of red mud from the aluminium industry.

(183) Manufacture of equipment for the comprehensive utilisation of mine tailings.

(184) Manufacture of equipment for the recovery, disposal and recycling of waste and old plastics, electric appliances, rubber and batteries.

(185) Manufacture of equipment for the recovery and treatment of waste and old textiles.

(186) Manufacture of equipment for the remanufacture of waste and old mechanical and electrical products.

(187) Manufacture of devices for the comprehensive utilisation of waste and old tyres.

(188) Manufacture of technologies and equipment for the protection of aquatic ecosystems.

(189) Manufacture of mobile combination water purification equipment.

(190) Non-conventional water treatment and reuse equipment and water quality monitoring instruments.

(191) Leak detection equipment and instruments for industrial water pipe networks and equipment (apparatus).

(192) Development and manufacture of technologies and sets of equipment for the desalination of, and circulated cooling by, sea water with a daily production capacity of 100,000m³.

(193) Manufacture of special meteorological observation and analysis equipment.

(194) Development of seismographic stations, networks and mobile seismic observation technologies and systems and the manufacture of instruments and equipment thereof.

(195) Manufacture of building machines for radial tyres of 4 drums or above.

(196) Manufacture of rolling resistance testing machines and tyre noise laboratories.

(197) Manufacture of new heat supply metering and temperature control device technologies and equipment.

(198) Manufacture of hydrogen energy preparation, storage and transport equipment and inspection systems.

(199) Manufacture of new heavy oil residue gasification and atomisation nozzles, high efficiency steam traps with a steam leak ratio of not more than 0.5%, high temperature (1,000°C or above) ceramic heat exchangers.

(200) Manufacture of devices for recovering oil from marine spills.

(201) Manufacture of equipment for the utilisation of low concentration coalbed gas and ventilation air methane.

(202) Development and utilisation of clean coal technologies and products and manufacture of equipment therefor (coal gasification, liquefaction, coal water slurry and industrial coal briquettes).

(203) Development of fire prevention, fire extinguishing and rescue technologies for large public structures, high rise buildings, petrochemical facilities, and forestry, mountain, marine and underground facilities, and manufacture of equipment therefor.

(XIX) Automobile Manufacturing

(204) Manufacture of automobile engines and establishment of engine research and development organisations: gasoline engines with a performance per litre of not less than 70 kW, diesel engines with a displacement of less than 3 litres and a performance per litre of not less than 50 kW, diesel engines with a displacement of at least 3 litres and a performance per litre of not less 40 kW, fuel cell, hybrid fuel and other such alternative fuel engines.

(205) Manufacture of key automotive parts and components and the research and development of key technologies: dual clutch transmissions (DCT), continuously variable transmissions (CVT), automated mechanical transmissions (AMT), turbo chargers for gasoline engines, viscous couplings (for 4-wheel drives), automatic transmission actuators (solenoid valves), hydraulic retarders, eddy current retarders, gas generators for automotive air bags, common rail fuel injection technologies (with a maximum injection pressure greater than 2,000Pa), variable geometry turbocharger technologies (VGT), variable nozzle turbocharger technologies (VNT), engine emission control devices meeting China's Stage V pollution emission standards, intelligent torque management systems (ITM) and coupler assemblies, steering-by-wire systems, diesel particle filters, axles for large low-floor passenger buses, energy absorbing steering systems, variable frequency air conditioning systems for medium and large passenger buses, special rubber parts for motor vehicles as well as key parts and components of the foregoing parts and components.

(206) Manufacture, research and development of automobile electronic devices: electronic control systems and key parts and components for engines and chassis, onboard electronic technologies (automotive information systems and navigation systems), automotive electronic bus network technologies (limited to equity joint ventures), electronic control system input (sensors and sampling systems) and output (actuators) components, electronic controllers for electrically-assisted power steering systems (limited to equity joint ventures), embedded electronic integration systems, electronically controlled air springs, electronically controlled suspension systems, electronic air valve system devices, electronic instrument clusters, ABS/TCS/ESP systems, brake-by-wire systems (BBW), transmission control units (TCU), tyre pressure monitoring systems (TPMS), on-board diagnostics (OBD), engine anti-theft systems, automatic collision avoidance systems, and testing and repair testing systems for automobiles and motorcycles.

(207) Manufacture of key parts and components for alternative energy vehicles: energy type power batteries (energy density ≥ 110 Wh per kilogram, cycle life ≥ 2,000 cycles; foreign investment percentage may not exceed 50%), battery anode materials (specific capacity ≥ 150 mAh per gram, cycle life of 2,000 cycles with not less than 80% of the initial discharge capacity), battery separators (thickness of 15-40 μm, porosity of 40%–60%); battery management systems, motor management systems, control assemblies of electric vehicles; drive motors of electric vehicles (peak power density ≥ 2.5 kW per kilogram, high efficiency area: 65%, working area efficiency rate ≥ 80%), DC/DC for vehicles (input voltage 100V–400V), high power electronic components (IGBT, voltage level ≥ 600 V, current ≥ 300 A) and plug-in hybrid power electromechanical drive systems.

(XX) Manufacturing of Railway, Vessel, Aviation, Aerospace and Other Transport Equipment

(208) Manufacture of exhaust control devices for large displacement (>250 mL) motorcycles reaching the China's motorcycle Stage III pollutant discharge standards.

(209) Rail transport equipment (limited to equity and cooperative joint ventures).

(210) Design, manufacture and repair of civil aircraft: Trunk route and feeder route aircraft (the Chinese party shall hold a controlling interest) and general purpose aircraft (limited to equity and cooperative joint ventures).

(211) Manufacture and repair of parts and components for civil aircraft.

(212) Design and manufacture of civil helicopters (the Chinese party shall hold a controlling interest for 3 tonne class or above).

(213) Manufacture of parts and components for civil helicopters.

(214) Manufacture of wing-in-ground effect and wing-in-water effect craft; and design and manufacture of unmanned aerial vehicles and aerostats (the Chinese party shall hold a controlling interest).

(215) Design, manufacture and repair of aircraft engines and their parts and components, aircraft auxiliary propulsion systems.

(216) Design and manufacture of civil airborne aviation equipment.

(217) Manufacture of aviation ground equipment: civil airport facilities, civil airport operation assurance equipment, flight test ground equipment, flight simulation and training equipment, aviation testing and measurement equipment, aviation ground testing equipment, comprehensive onboard equipment testing equipment, aviation manufacturing equipment, aviation material test manufacturing equipment, civil aircraft ground receiving and application equipment, carrier rocket ground testing equipment, and carrier rocket mechanical and environmental testing equipment.

(218) Manufacture of optical, mechanical and electrical products for spacecraft, temperature control products for spacecraft, equipment for testing satellite onboard products, and spacecraft structural and mechanism products.

(219) Manufacture of light gas turbines.

(220) Design of luxury liners and deepwater (3,000 metres and above) marine engineering equipment.

(221) Manufacture and repair of marine engineering equipment (including modules) (the Chinese party shall hold a controlling interest).

(222) Design of low and medium speed diesel engines for vessels and parts and components therefor.

(223) Manufacture of low and medium speed vessel diesel engines and crankshafts (the Chinese party shall hold a controlling interest).

(224) Design and manufacture of vessel cabin machinery.

(225) Design and manufacture of vessel communications and navigation equipment: vessel communications system equipment, electronic vessel navigation equipment, vessel radar, gyro-compasses, auto-pilot, vessel internal public address systems, etc.

(226) Design and manufacture of pleasure craft.

(XXI) Manufacturing of Electric Machinery and Apparatus

(227) Manufacture of key auxiliary machinery and equipment for 1 million kW ultra supercritical thermal power units: safety valves and control valves.

(228) Manufacture of denitrification devices for coal-fired power plants and sintering machines used in the iron and steel industry.

(229) Design and manufacture of sealing components for fossil fuel power generation equipment.

(230) Manufacture of large cast and forged components used in coal-fired power station and hydropower station equipment.

(231) Manufacture of key auxiliary machinery and equipment used in hydroelectric generator sets.

(232) Manufacture of power transmission and transformation equipment.

(233) Manufacture of sets of equipment or key equipment for the generation of electricity with alternative energy sources: equipment for photovoltaic power generation, geothermal power generation, tidal power generation, wave power generation, garbage power generation, biogas power generation and 2.5 MW or above wind power generation.

(234) Manufacture of large pump storage units with a rated power of 350 MW and above: pump turbines and governors, large variable speed reversible pump turbine sets, generator motors and auxiliary equipment such as excitation and starting devices.

(235) Manufacture of sterling generator units.

(236) Development and manufacture of linear motors, planar motors and their actuating systems.

(237) Manufacture of hi-tech environmentally friendly batteries: power nickel-hydrogen batteries, zinc-nickel storage batteries, zinc-silver storage batteries, lithium ion batteries, solar cells, fuel cells, etc. (excluding energy type power batteries for alternative energy vehicles).

(238) Manufacture of refrigeration and air-conditioning compressors the motors of which use DC speed regulation technologies, refrigeration and air-conditioning compressors using CO2 natural refrigerant, and refrigerating and air-conditioning equipment applying reusable energy sources (air source, water source, ground source).

(239) Manufacture of solar powered air conditioning systems, heating systems and solar powered drying devices.

(240) Manufacture of biomass drying and pyrolytic systems, and biomass gasification devices.

(241) Manufacture of alternating current frequency modulated voltage regulating drawgear.

(XXII) Manufacturing of Computers, Communications Equipment and Other Electronic Equipment

(242) Manufacture of high-definition digital camcorders and digital audio equipment.

(243) Manufacture of TFT-LCD, PDP and OLED flat panel displays and panel display materials (excluding 6th generation and earlier TFT-LCD glass substrate).

(244) Manufacture of key components of large screen colour projection displays such as optical engines, light sources, projection screens, high resolution projection tubes and LCOS modules.

(245) Manufacture of digital audio and video frequency encoding and decoding equipment, digital radio and television studio equipment, digital cable television system equipment, digital audio frequency broadcasting and transmission equipment, digital television uplink and downlink converters, digital television ground broadcasting single frequency network (SFN) equipment, satellite digital television uplink station equipment.

(246) Design of integrated circuits, manufacture of large-scale digital integrated circuits with a line width of not more than 28 nanometres, manufacture of 0.11 microns or less analogue or digital to analogue integrated circuits, manufacture of MEMS and compound semiconductor integrated circuits and BGA, PGA, CSP, MCM, etc. advanced packaging and testing.

(247) Manufacture of large and medium-sized computers, 10,000 teraflop high performance computers, portable microcomputers, large analogue simulation systems, and large industrial control machines and control devices.

(248) Manufacture of computer digital signal processing systems and cards.

(249) Manufacture of pattern and image recognition and processing systems.

(250) Development and manufacture of high-capacity optical and magnetic disk drives and their components.

(251) Manufacture of high speed storage systems with a capacity of at least 100TB and intelligent storage equipment.

(252) Manufacture of systems for computer assisted design (three-dimensional CAD), electronic design automation (EDA), computer assisted testing (CAT), computer assisted manufacturing (CAM) and computer assisted engineering (CAE) and other computer application systems.

(253) Development and manufacture of software products.

(254) Development and manufacture of special materials for use in electronics (with the exception of the development and manufacture of optical fibre preformed rods).

(255) Manufacture of special equipment, testing instruments, tools and dies for use in electronics.

(256) Manufacture of new electronic components: chip components, sensory components and sensors, frequency control and selection components, hybrid integrated circuits, electrical and electronic components, photoelectronic components, new mechanical and electric components, polymerised solid capacitors, super capacitors, passive integration elements, high density laminated board, multilayer flexible board, and rigid-flexible printed circuit boards and packaging substrate.

(257) Manufacture of touch control systems (touch screens, touch control components, etc.).

(258) High luminescence light-emitting diodes with a light efficiency of at least 1401m/W, light-emitting diode epi-wafers (blue laser) with a light efficiency of at least 1401m/W, white LEDs with a light efficiency of at least 1401m/W and at least 200mW of power.

(259) Development and production of key components for high-density digital optical disk machines.

(260) Production of writable optical disks.

(261) Design and manufacture of civil satellites and manufacture of payloads for civil satellites (the Chinese party shall hold a controlling interest).

(262) Manufacture of parts and components for civil satellites.

(263) Manufacture of equipment for satellite communications systems.

(264) Manufacture of optical communications instrumentation and optical transceivers with a speed of at least 40Gb/s.

(265) Manufacture of ultrawide band (UWB) communications equipment.

(266) Manufacture of wireless local area network (including supporting WAPI) and wide-area network equipment.

(267) 100Gbps and above time division multiplexing equipment (TDM), dense wavelength division multiplexing equipment (DWDM), broadband passive optical network equipment (including EPON, GPON, WDM-PON, etc.), next generation DSL chips and equipment, optical cross-connected (OXC) equipment, automatic switch optical network (ASON) equipment, fibre optic communications transmission equipment of 40G/sSDH or above.

(268) Development and manufacture of IPv6 based next generation internet system equipment, terminal equipment, testing equipment, software and chips.

(269) Development and manufacture of third generation and subsequent mobile communications system handsets, base stations, core network equipment and network testing equipment.

(270) Development and manufacture of high-end routers and network switches of 1GB or more.

(271) Manufacture of equipment for air traffic control systems.

(272) Development and manufacture of electronic Chinese traditional medicine teaching aids based on sound, light, electronic, touch control and other such computer information technologies, and virtual pathological and physiological model equipment.

(XXIII) Instrument and Meter Manufacturing

(273) Manufacture of industrial process automatic control systems and devices: fieldbus control systems, large programmable logic controllers (PLC), two-phase flow meters, solid flow meters, new sensors and field measuring instruments.

(274) Development and manufacture of large precision instruments.

(275) Manufacture of high precision digital voltmeters and ammeters (with display range of at least 7.5 digits).

(276) Manufacture of automatic reactive power compensation devices.

(277) Manufacture of new instruments and equipment for work safety.

(278) Manufacture of VXI bus type automatic testing systems (complying with the IEEE 1155 standard).

(279) Development and manufacture of coal mine shaft monitoring and disaster advance warning systems, and comprehensive coal safety testing management systems.

(280) Manufacture of engineering measurement and geophysical observation equipment.

(281) Manufacture of environmental monitoring instruments.

(282) Manufacture of instruments and equipment for the collection, processing and transmission of hydrologic data and for flood warning.

(283) Manufacture of marine exploration and monitoring instruments and equipment.

(XXIV) Comprehensive Utilisation of Waste Resources

(284) Coal extraction and washing, and the comprehensive utilisation of pulverised coal ash (including de-sulfurised gypsum), coal gangue, etc.

(285) Production of fully biodegradable materials.

(286) Recovery and disposal of discarded electric and electronic products, motor vehicles, mechanical and electrical equipment, rubber, metals and batteries.

4. Electricity, Heat, Gas and Water Generation and Supply

(287) Construction and operation of single unit 600mW and above ultra super-critical power stations.

(288) Construction and operation of backpressure (extraction backpressure) thermal-electrical cogeneration, thermal-electrical-cooling co-generation, 300mW and above thermal-electrical co-generation power stations.

(289) Construction and operation in water-deficient areas of single unit 600mW and above power stations with large air cooling units.

(290) Construction and operation of integrated gasification combined cycle power generation and other such clean coal power generation projects.

(291) Construction and operation of power generation projects using fluidised bed boilers with a unit capacity of 300mW and above and utilising coal gangue, middlings, coal slurry, etc.

(292) Construction and operation of hydroelectric power stations mainly engaged in the generation of power.

(293) Construction and operation of nuclear power stations (the Chinese party shall hold a controlling interest).

(294) Construction and operation of power stations using new sources of energy (including solar energy, wind energy, geothermal energy, tidal energy, tidal current energy, wave power, biomass energy, etc.).

(295) Construction and operation of power grids (the Chinese party shall hold a controlling interest).

(296) Seawater utilisation (direct utilisation of seawater, seawater desalination)

(297) Construction and operation of water supply plants.

(298) Construction and operation of water reclamation plants.

(299) Construction and operation of sewage treatment plants.

(300) Construction and operation of battery recharging stations and battery replacement stations for motor vehicles.

5. Communications, Transportation, Warehousing and Postal Services

(301) Construction and operation of railway main-line networks (the Chinese party shall hold a controlling interest).

(302) Construction and operation of intercity railways, urban (suburban) railways, resource development railways and feeder lines, and bridges, tunnels, ferries and station facilities therefor.

(303) Comprehensive repair and maintenance of high speed rail, passenger rail and intercity rail infrastructure.

(304) Construction and operation of highways, independent bridges and tunnels.

(305) Road freight transportation companies.

(306) Construction and operation of the public terminal facilities of ports.

(307) Construction and operation of civil airports (the Chinese party shall hold a relative controlling interest).

(308) Air transport companies (the Chinese party shall hold a controlling interest and the investment percentage of a single foreign investor and its affiliated enterprises may not exceed 25%).

(309) Airline companies for agriculture, forestry and fisheries (limited to equity and cooperative joint ventures)

(310) Scheduled and tramp international maritime transport services (limited to equity and cooperative joint ventures).

(311) International multi-modal container transport services.

(312) Construction and operation of oil (gas) pipelines and oil (gas) depots.

(313) Construction and operation of coal pipeline transportation facilities.

(314) Construction and operation of automated overhead frame storage facilities and integrated warehousing facilities related to packaging, processing and distribution businesses.

6. Wholesale and Retail

(315) Logistics, such as common delivery of general goods, and low temperature delivery of fresh and live agricultural products and special pharmaceuticals, and related technical services.

(316) Rural chain delivery.

(317) Construction and operation of dual pallet and container systems.

7. Lease and Commercial Service Business

(318) Accounting and auditing (the chief partner shall be a Chinese national).

(319) Information and consultancy services for international economy, science and technology, environmental protection and logistics.

(320) Provision of outsourcing for system application management and maintenance, information technology support management, bank back office services, financial settlement, software development, offshore call centres, data processing, and other outsourcing services for information technology and business process.

(321) Venture investment enterprises.

(322) Intellectual property services.

(323) Home service industry.

8. Scientific Research and Technical Service Business

(324) Bio-engineering and biomedical engineering technologies, and technologies for the development of biomass energy resources.

(325) Isotopic, radiation and laser technologies.

(326) Technologies for marine development and marine energy development, technologies for the comprehensive utilisation of marine chemical resources, technologies for the development, fine processing and further processing of related products, and technologies for the development of marine pharmaceuticals and biochemical products.

(327) Marine monitoring technologies (marine wave, meteorological, environmental monitoring), and technologies for ocean floor detection and oceanic resource prospecting and assessment.

(328) Comprehensive utilisation of post-desalination concentrated sea water to produce salt, technologies for the high added value utilisation of sea water chemical resources, such as the extraction of potassium, bromine, magnesium and lithium and the further processing thereof.

(329) Development of marine oil pollution clean up and ecology restoration technologies and related products, seawater eutrophication prevention and treatment technologies, technologies for preventing and treating disasters caused by the explosive growth of marine organisms and technologies for restoring the ecological environment of coastal zones.

(330) Development and servicing of energy saving and environmental protection technologies.

(331) Technologies for the renewal and comprehensive utilisation of resources, and development and application of technologies for the recycling of enterprise production emissions.

(332) Technologies for the prevention, treatment and monitoring of environmental pollution.

(333) New technologies for reducing energy consumption in, and treating of waste from, chemical fibre production and dyeing and printing processes.

(334) Technologies for the prevention of desertification and the treatment of deserts.

(335) Technologies for comprehensively managing the grass to livestock balance.

(336) Application technologies for civil satellites.

(337) Research and development centres.

(338) Centres for the development of high and new technologies and new products, and enterprise incubation.

(339) Development and application of Internet of things technologies.

(340) Innovative industries, such as industrial design, architectural design and fashion design.

9. Management of Water Conservancy, Environmental and Public Facilities

(341) Construction and operation of comprehensive water conservancy hubs (the Chinese party shall hold a controlling interest).

(342) Construction and operation of closed urban streets.

(343) Construction and operation of rail transport such as urban underground railways and light railways.

(344) Construction and operation of sewage and garbage treatment plants, hazardous waste treatment and disposal plants (incinerators and landfills) and facilities for the prevention and control of environmental pollution.

10. Education

(345) Non-scholastic vocational training institutions.

11. Health and Social Work

(346) Institutions providing services to the elderly, disabled and children.

(347) Elderly nursing homes.

12. Cultural, Sports and Leisure Business

(348) Operation of performance venues.

(349) Operation of sports stadiums, bodybuilding, sports competitions, sports training and intermediary services.

CATALOGUE OF INDUSTRIES IN WHICH FOREIGN INVESTMENT IS RESTRICTED

1. Agriculture, Forestry, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries

(1) Selective breeding of new varieties of agricultural crops and the production of seeds (the Chinese party shall hold a controlling interest).

2. Mining

(2) Prospecting and mining of special and scarce coals (the Chinese party shall hold a controlling interest).

(3) Prospecting and mining of precious metals (gold, silver, and platinum group).

(4) Prospecting and mining of graphite.

(5) Mining and dressing of lithium ores.

3. Manufacturing

(6) Processing of edible oils, such as soybean oil, rapeseed oil, peanut oil, cottonseed oil, camellia oil, sunflower oil and palm oil (the Chinese party shall hold a controlling interest), processing of rice, flour and raw sugar, further processing of corn.

(7) Production of liquid biofuels (fuel ethanol and biodiesel) (the Chinese party shall hold a controlling interest).

(8) Printing of publications (the Chinese party shall have a controlling interest).

(9) Smelting of rare metals, such as tungsten, molybdenum, tin (excluding tin compounds) and antimony (including antimony oxide and antimony sulphide).

(10) Smelting and separation of rare earths (limited to equity and cooperative joint ventures).

(11) Manufacture of assembled vehicles, special purpose vehicles and motorcycles: the shareholding percentage of the Chinese party shall not be less than 50%; one foreign investor may establish up to two equity joint ventures producing the same type of (passenger vehicle, commercial vehicle, motorcycle) assembled vehicles in China; if it acquires another domestic vehicle manufacturer jointly with its Chinese joint venture partner, it may be exempted from the limitation of two joint ventures.

(12) Repair, design and manufacture of vessels (including sections) (the Chinese party shall hold a controlling interest).

(13) Production of satellite television and radio ground receiving facilities and key components.

4. Electricity, Heat, Gas and Water Generation and Supply

(14) Construction and operation of coal fired condensing power stations with a unit capacity of up to 300mW, cogeneration plants with coal fired condenser extractor units with a unit capacity of up to 100mW within small grids.

(15) Construction and operation of gas, heat and water supply and drainage networks for cities with populations of at least 500,000 people (the Chinese party shall hold a controlling interest).

5. Communications, Transportation, Warehousing, and Postal Services

(16) Companies engaged in the transportation of passengers by rail (the Chinese party shall hold a controlling interest).

(17) Companies engaged in the transportation of passengers by road.

(18) Companies engaged in transportation by water (the Chinese party shall hold a controlling interest).

(19) Airline companies for executive flights, air tours, photography, prospecting, industry, etc. (the Chinese party shall hold a controlling interest).

6. Information Transmission, Software and Information Technology Service Industry

(20) Telecommunications companies: value-added telecommunications services (foreign investment not exceeding 50%, except for e-commerce) and basic telecommunications services (foreign investment not exceeding 49%).

7. Wholesale and Retail

(21) Grain purchase, grain and cotton wholesale, and construction and operation of large agricultural product wholesale markets.

(22) Vessel agency (the Chinese party shall hold a controlling interest), ocean shipping tallying (limited to equity and cooperative joint ventures).

(23) Construction and operation of petrol stations (if one foreign investor establishes more than 30 stations or chain petrol stations selling different types and brands of refined oil products from multiple suppliers, the Chinese party shall have a controlling interest).

8. Financial Industry

(24) Banks (where a single foreign financial institution and an affiliated party controlled by it or under joint control with it invests in a single Chinese-invested commercial bank as promoter or strategic investor, their equity interest therein may not exceed 20%; where multiple foreign financial institutions and affiliated parties controlled by them or under joint control with them invest in a single Chinese-invested commercial bank as promoters or strategic investors, their equity interest therein may not exceed 25% in total; a foreign financial institution that invests in a small or medium rural financial institution must be a banking financial institution).

(25) Insurance companies (the foreign investment percentage in a life insurance company may not exceed 50%).

(26) Securities companies (at the time of establishment, limited to engaging in the underwriting and sponsorship of renminbi denominated common shares, foreign investment shares, and government bonds and corporate bonds, brokering of foreign investment shares, and the brokering and dealing in for own account of government bonds and corporate bonds; qualified companies may apply to expand their scopes of business once two years have elapsed since establishment; foreign investment percentage may not exceed 49%) and securities investment fund management companies (foreign investment percentage may not exceed 49%).

(27) Futures companies (the Chinese party shall hold a controlling interest).

9. Leasing and Commercial Services Business

(28) Market surveys (limited to equity and cooperative joint ventures; radio and television listener and viewer surveying requires control by the Chinese party).

(29) Credit check and rating service companies.

10. Scientific Research and Technical Services

(30) Surveying and cartography companies (the Chinese party shall have a controlling interest).

11. Education

(31) Institutes of higher education (limited to cooperative joint ventures, and the Chinese party shall have a leading role*).

(32) Ordinary high school educational institutions (limited to cooperative joint ventures, and the Chinese party shall have a leading role).

(33) Pre-school educational institutions (limited to cooperative joint ventures, and the Chinese party shall have a leading role).

12. Health and Social Work

(34) Medical institutions (limited to equity and cooperative joint ventures).

13. Cultural, Sports and Leisure Business

(35) Radio or television programme and motion picture production (limited to cooperative joint ventures).

(36) Construction and operation of cinemas (the Chinese party shall hold a controlling interest).

(37) Construction and operation of large theme parks.

(38) Performance brokering organisations (the Chinese party shall hold a controlling interest).

14. Other Industries That are Restricted by State Laws or Regulations or by International Treaties Concluded or Acceded to by China.

CATALOGUE OF INDUSTRIES IN WHICH FOREIGN INVESTMENT IS PROHIBITED

1. Agriculture, Forestry, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries

(1) Research, development, culturing and cultivation of valuable fine varieties rare in and unique to China and production of related propagation materials (including high-quality genes from the crop and plant cultivation industry, the animal husbandry industry and the aquatic products industry).

(2) Selective breeding of transgenic varieties of agricultural crops, breeding stock, breeding fowl and aquatic fingerlings and seedlings, and production of transgenic seeds (seedlings) thereof.

(3) Aquatic animal and plant fishing and dredging in China's marine jurisdictional waters and inland waters.

2. Mining

(4) Prospecting and mining of tungsten, molybdenum, tin, antimony and fluorspar.

(5) Prospecting, mining and dressing of rare earths.

(6) Prospecting, mining and dressing of radioactive minerals.

3. Manufacturing

(I) Medicine Manufacturing

(7) Processing of Chinese traditional medicinal materials included in the Regulations for Administration of the Protection of Wild Medicinal Material Resources and the List of Chinese Rare and Endangered Protected Plants.

(8) Application of techniques for the processing of soft lozenges of Chinese traditional medicines, such as steaming, parching, frying and calcining and the production of secret formulations of proprietary Chinese traditional medicines.

(II) Petroleum Processing, Coking and Nuclear Fuel Processing Industry

(9) Smelting and processing of radioactive minerals, and production of nuclear fuel.

(III) Specialised Equipment Manufacturing

(10) Manufacture of weapons and ammunition.

(IV) Other Manufacturing

(11) Ivory carving.

(12) Processing of tiger bones.

(13) Production of xuan paper, and ink ingots.

4. Electricity, Heat, Gas and Water Generation and Supply

(14) Construction and operation of coal fired condensing power stations with a unit capacity of up to 300mW, cogeneration plants with coal fired condenser extractor units with a unit capacity of up to 200mW within large grids.

5. Communications, Transportation, Warehousing, and Postal Services

(15) Air traffic control.

(16) Postal service companies, and domestic express mail delivery.

6. Wholesale and Retail

(17) Wholesale and retail of tobacco, cigarettes, flue-cured tobacco leaves and other tobacco products.

7. Lease and Commercial Service Business

(18) Social surveys.

(19) China legal affairs consulting (excluding the provision of information on the effect of the China legal environment).

8. Scientific Research and Technical Service Business

(20) Development and application of human stem cell, gene diagnostic and treatment technologies.

(21) Geodetic surveying, marine surveying and cartography, aerial photography for cartographic purposes, administrative division boundary surveying and cartography, compiling of topographic maps, world administrative maps, national administrative maps, provincial level and below administrative maps, national instructional maps, local instructional maps and three-dimensional maps, compiling of electronic navigational charts, and surveying concerning regional geological mapping, mineral geology, geophysical, geochemical, hydrogeological, environmental geology, geological hazards, remote sensing geology, etc.

9. Management of Water Conservancy, Environmental and Public Facilities

(22) Establishment and operation of nature preserves and internationally important wetlands.

(23) Development of state protected wild fauna and flora resources native to China.

10. Education

(24) Mandatory education institutions, educational institutions in special fields such as military academies, police academies, political academies and party schools.

11. Cultural, Sports and Leisure Business

(25) News agencies.

(26) Publication of books, newspapers and periodicals.

(27) Publication and production of audio and video products and electronic publications.

(28) Radio stations, television stations, radio and television channels (frequencies), radio and television transmission coverage networks (transmission stations, relay stations, radio and television satellites, satellite uplink stations, satellite reception and relay stations, microwave stations, monitoring stations and cable radio and television transmission coverage networks) at all levels.

(29) Companies engaged in the production or operation of radio or television programmes.

(30) Film production companies, distribution companies and cinema chain companies.

(31) Operation of news websites, online publishing services, network audio and video programme services, venues providing internet access services and internet culture (except for music).

(32) Operation of auction enterprises auctioning cultural artifacts and antique stores.

(33) Construction of golf courses and villas.

11. Other Industries

(34) Projects that jeopardise the safety and efficient use of military facilities.

(35) Gaming industry (including horse racetracks that offer betting).

(36) Sex industry.

12. Other Industries That are Prohibited by State Laws and Regulations or by International Treaties Concluded or Acceded to by China.

Notes: If otherwise provided in the Mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement and its supplementary agreements, the Mainland and Macao Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement and its supplementary agreements, the Cross-straits Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement and its subsequent agreements or a free trade area agreement or investment agreement between China and relevant countries, such provisions shall apply.

* The phrase “the Chinese party shall have a leading role” means, here and hereafter, that the president or chief administrative officer shall be a Chinese citizen and constituent members appointed by the Chinese party to the executive board, board of directors or joint management committee of the Sino-foreign cooperative educational institution may not be less than one-half.