Foreign Direct Investment

The State Council promulgated the Guiding the Direction of Foreign Investment Provisions (the 2002 Provisions), which are effective as of April 1 2002. A closer look at these important regulations, the momentum for market liberalization in China and further legal changes governing a range of industries can be expected.

Jones, Day, Reavis & PogueOverviewChina's pharmaceutical sector is expected to continue to grow at a healthy rate of between 15.0% and 17.0% in 2002.…

Baker & McKenzieThe new Foreign Investment Industrial Guidance Catalogue (外商投资产业指导目录) (see page 37) reflects China's World Trade…

The regulations kick-start market liberalization in China and further legal changes governing a range of industries.

Freshfields Bruckhaus DeringerThe Chinese government has created new opportunities for foreign participation in infrastructure development with the release…

Corporate research in China is a thriving business, a wealth of corporate information is collected and stored by government institutions, and bureaucratic channels are the most effective sources for corporate research in China.

China's foreign investment catalogue has been revised for the first time in more than four years. The new catalogue has made radical changes to the different categories into which all foreign investment is classified.

The new catalogue has made radical changes to the different categories into which all foreign investment is classified.

The government recently promulgated new shipping regulations in response to WTO requirements.