Features & Analyses

Allows insurance companies and insurance asset management companies to directly purchase and trade renminbi-denominated common stock, and to directly purchase convertible corporate bonds and other specified investment product.

The framework for the second round of the Mainland-Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement was concluded in August. Now, the two sides have signed the "Legal Text", which has three annexes.

Regulatory changes that have made it easier to set up new foreign investments, but new rules have displayed an ambiguity over the respective roles of issuing authorities that may confound foreign investors.

A discussion on measures to take for the retention of key management staff in M&A deals by foreign investors.

An overheating economy is the subject of recent macroeconomic adjustment measures issued by the government and affects foreign-invested projects.

A look into the challenges faced by US companies under the enforcement of the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

Rural grievances over tenancy insecurity are staples of news stories about China. This feature looks into the impact on peasantry rights as a result of economic change and the legal issues that arises out of Land Law in China.

The Chinese government is reforming its electricity pricing system in order to reduce problems of misallocation of resources and power shortages.

The NPC has passed a new legislation on electronic signatures. This new legislation helps to regulate electronic commerce and security of electronic transactions.