Foreign Direct Investment

The new Enterprise Income Tax Law will take effect on January 2008. What changes should be expected by foreign investors?

What standards of environmental protection should multinationals and their legal advisers consider, and why?

Industrial land is subject to a new set of regulations in terms of granting procedures, granting prices, urban land use tax and requirements governing the conditions of using industrial land.

Foreign banks are encouraged to set up banks with legal personality.

SAFE sets forth procedures concerning foreign exchange matters in the restructuring of foreign-invested banks.

Anti-monopoly filings required before conducting mergers or acquisitions.

Foreign-invested commercial enterprises prohibited from engaging in tobacco retail and wholesale businesses.

Amid public fervour over low wages for fast-food workers, labour authorities have taken action in favour of workers. On April 10 2007, The Guangdong Department…

Foreign investment in real property restricted in 2007.