Features & Analyses

With the boom in the PRC equities markets and the emergence of outbound wealth, foreign interest in China's financial services market has grown substantially. In response to these pressures and the changing environment, the latest round of reforms in the securities industry offers increased clarity and certain real opportunities to tap into the growing PRC securities market.

Chinese lawmakers accomplished much in 2007. Chief among their achievements include the promulgation of the Property Law, Anti-monopoly Law, Labour Contract Law, and amendments to the Law on Lawyers. In particular, they adopted significant changes to the Law on Lawyers, ushering in a brand new era in the legal profession in China.

Business people and lawyers have often complained of the vagueness and impracticalities of China's legal rules regulating the filing of charges over chattels. With the advent of the New Methods for Registration of Charges of Personal Properties, much light is shed and many problems removed; yet ambiguities still abide around several key issues.

Since the passage of the PRC Enterprise Income Tax Law last March, local companies and foreign-invested enterprises alike have eagerly awaited the implementing regulations that would reveal the details of how the law would be put into practice. In order to enhance the operability of the law, these regulations give specific definitions, criteria for tax-liability reductions and concessions, and other critical details.

As the second largest emitter of greenhouse gas in the world after the United States, the PRC is under great pressure and scrutiny from other countries, and has dedicated a great deal of resources and legislation effort in order to lower its emissions. Can the draft Energy Law successfully turn China into an energy-efficient country?

As the second largest emitter of greenhouse gas in the world after the United States, the PRC is under great pressure and scrutiny from other countries, and has dedicated a great deal of resources and legislation effort in order to lower its emissions. Can the draft Energy Law successfully turn China into an energy-efficient country?

Given the recent tainted food imports report in the US, Chinese food exporters are advised to take concrete steps to assure consumer safety.

Given the recent tainted food imports report in the US, Chinese food exporters are advised to take concrete steps to assure consumer safety.

The Provisions further regulates the regime over the increasingly popular construction leasehold granting through bidding, auction or listing.