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China defines systemically important financial institutions, and foreign investors are offered tax exemption for bond investments and encouraged to engage in debt-for-equity swaps

Issued: October 20, 2018 Main contents: The Draft contains a total of 48 articles, with 25 articles amended, 19 articles deleted and 19 new…

Issued: October 20, 2018 Main contents: Where a taxpayer himself/herself or his/her spouse uses a personal housing loan from a commercial…

Global officials and entrepreneurs meet in Hamburg for Belt and Road Initiative; Shanghai FTZ reports 5.8% import-export increase; and legislators prepare to regulate artificial intelligence.

Local government bonds are offered to individual investors; information disclosure of restructurings of listed companies is simplified; and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan residents will enroll in the same social insurance schemes as local mainland residents

Insurance capital may be invested to alleviate liquidity risks of listed companies

China internet courts recognize blockchain technology as a means of electronic evidence storage

Amended regulations for patent agents will take effect in March 2019; trading of ethanediol futures on the Dalian Exchange starts in December; and the Supreme Court is updating China's online court documents depository.

Blockchain information services will be subject to record filing, listed companies are encouraged to buy back their shares and insurance capital may be invested to alleviate liquidity risks of listed companies