Legal

Banks required to meet capital adequacy ratio requirements of Basel III.

Qualified foreign institutional investors allowed to trade stock index futures for hedging purposes.

The 2010 Report selected 43 issues with broad guiding significance from 36 cases including: determination of the equivalence of technical features in a patent infringement dispute and protection of a design under the Anti-unfair Competition Law after the patent expires.

Taiwan law firms allowed to set up representative offices in Fuzhou and Xiamen.

The tax authority continues to ramp up its manpower for transfer pricing-related audits

National legislation Environmental protectionCircular on Further Promoting Renewable Energy Use in Construction 关于进一步推进可再生能源建筑应用的通知L1600/11.03.08 InsuranceCircular…

CSRC allows QFIIs to trade SIFs in China

New standards will help stabilise banking sector growth

Securities regulator raises performance thresholds