Foreign Direct Investment

A representative office using temporary workers is challenging and more burdensome than direct employment, as agencies in practice release all responsibility after workers have been placed. Legal reforms have not clarified the situation, which means it may be time for investors to switch to a WFOE

Taiwanese businesses often invest into mainland China indirectly as it can offer them enhanced protection through bilateral agreements. But new Measures have reduced concerns and may open up opportunities for foreign investors

Officials in the western city of Chengdu have used an enhanced IP system to attract foreign investors. David Tring spoke to Ding Xiaobin from the city's Science & Technology Bureau to find out more about the initiative

If a Taiwanese investor invests in and establishes an enterprise on the mainland using a company, enterprise or other economic organisation in a third place that it directly or indirectly owns or controls, it may apply to have such third place investor recognised as being the equivalent of a Taiwanese investor.

The total funds (investment principal and returns) that a QFII may outwardly remit each month may not exceed 20% of its total domestic assets as at the end of the previous year.

Circulars from the State Administration of Foreign Exchange have reduced the approval burden on the capital account, a move that has boosted investor confidence by showing a renewed commitment to liberalising foreign exchange controls

The end of 2012 saw China's once-in-a-decade power transition. Professor Connie Carter looks at the challenges the new leaders face and how foreign investors will be sidelined

As the 12th Five-year Plan reaches the halfway mark, how close is the country to achieving the goals it set? Progress has been made in offering incentives and subsides, but key legislation that investors are looking for has yet to be passed

As the 12th Five-year Plan reaches the halfway mark, how close is the country to achieving the goals it set? Progress has been made in offering incentives and subsides, but key legislation that investors are looking for has yet to be passed