Features & Analyses

Industrial land is subject to a new set of regulations in terms of granting procedures, granting prices, urban land use tax and requirements governing the conditions of using industrial land.

What standards of environmental protection should multinationals and their legal advisers consider, and why?

How environmental law is applied in China, and how stepped-up enforcement of existing legislation is ensuring compliance with the State Environmental Protection Agency's objectives?

The new Enterprise Income Tax Law will take effect on January 2008. What changes should be expected by foreign investors?

How environmental law is applied in China, and how stepped-up enforcement of existing legislation is ensuring compliance with the State Environmental Protection Agency's objectives?

Wen Jie and Richard Wageman discuss the development of the exponentially growing franchising market in China, against which the most recently promulgated franchising legislation is interpreted.

China continues to develop its legal regime protecting the creation and development of new plant varieties with the issuance of new rights and remedies available for infringement disputes involving new plant varieties.

In its eleventh five-year plan for the development of foreign trade, Guangzhou made a commitment to encourage foreign investors to set up headquarters and regional headquarters in its municipal area.

China continues to develop its legal regime protecting the creation and development of new plant varieties with the issuance of new rights and remedies available for infringement disputes involving new plant varieties.