Foreign Direct Investment

The China Securities Regulatory Commission (the CSRC) has promulgated new regulations that provide a long-awaited basis1 for the creation of foreign invested fund management companies in China.

Foreign-funded infrastructure projects form a critical part of China's economic development. However, ill-defined and incomplete legislation has over the years compromised the quality and boosted the costs as well as the final product prices of foreign-funded projects.

A detailed set of rules which governs the establishment of fund management companies with foreign equity participation.

The China Securities Regulatory Commission (the CSRC, China's securities regulatory body), issued the Establishment of Securities Companies with Foreign Equity Participation Rules (the Securities JV Rules or the Rules) on June 1 2002. The Rules set out the conditions and procedures for the establishment of Chinese-foreign securities joint venture companies and they represent a limited opening up of China's securities industry to foreign investors.

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A set of rules which govern the establishment of securities companies with foreign equity participation.

A set of procedures on the establishment of representative establishments in China of foreign-funded financial institutions.

On June 29 2002, the new Government Procurement Law (GPL) was promulgated and it aims at the establishment of a comprehensive system of Government procurement.