China revamps foreign investment rules, tackles VIEs

The new Foreign Investment Law unifies regulations, offers equal treatment and brings variable interest entity structures into the open

7 minute read January 30, 2015 at 02:58 AM

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The Ministry of Commerce's draft PRC Foreign Investment Law, released on January 19 for public comment, expands the definition of “investment” and unifies and repeals the three current foreign-invested enterprise (FIE) laws: the PRC Wholly Foreign-owned Enterprise Law (Revised), the PRC Sino-foreign Equity Joint Venture Law (2nd Revision) and the PRC Sino-foreign Cooperative Joint Venture Law (Revised)

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