Implementing Regulations finally come out after the promulgation of the PRC Law on the Invitation for and Submission of Bids in 1999, preventing the restriction or preclusion of potential bidders.
NDRC issues the first nationwide circular on private equity investment enterprises regulating the establishment of equity investment enterprises and limitation on the number of investors.
The Catalogue has been revised since the 2007 revision. Venture investment enterprises and intellectual property services are added to the encouraged category while the manufacture of assembled automobiles is removed from the category.