Legal

• Amending the Insurance Law: Long-Term Policy or Expedient Measures?

  China will promulgate an amended insurance law as part of a broad-ranging programme of post-WTO accession legislative renovation. An in-depth analysis of the pros and cons, and the implications for the China insurance market.

  November 30, 2002

• State Council Clamps Down on Fixed Return Projects

  Freshfields Bruckhaus DeringerWhile the Chinese central government has long prohibited the practice of "guaranteed fixed returns" whereby the Chinese party…

  November 30, 2002

• Supreme People's Court, Several Questions Concerning the Application of Law on Trial of Anti-subsidy Administrative Cases Provisions

  最高人民法院关于审理反补贴行政案件应用法律若干问题的规定

  Promulgated: November 21 2002Effective: January 1 2003Main contents: The Provisions list the anti-subsidy acts on which administrative cases shall be accepted…

  November 30, 2002

• Supreme People's Court, Several Questions Concerning the Application of Law on Trial of Anti-dumping Administrative Cases Provisions

  最高人民法院关于审理反倾销行政案件应用法律若干问题的规定

  Promulgated: November 21 2002Effective: January 1 2003Main contents: The Provisions list the anti-dumping acts on which administrative cases shall be accepted…

  November 30, 2002

• The Missing Piece of the Puzzle: New QFII Rules Open A Share Market

  The new QFII regulations mark another step in opening the securities markets further to foreign participation. Many new laws have made it apparent that the CSRC is committed to the path of financial reform and development.

  November 30, 2002

• Administration of Securities Investments in China by Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors Tentative Measures

  合格境外机构投资者境内证券投资管理暂行办法

  This piece of legislation marks a significant development of China's securities markets as it opens up the A share and domestic bond markets to foreign investment for the first time. It lays down the application and qualification standards of QFII.

  November 30, 2002

• Importing Genuine DVDs into China: Rules of the Game

  Baker & McKenzieIgnoring the regrettable fact that pirated DVDs retail at Rmb10 or less in the PRC and bearing in mind that China is an important production…

  November 30, 2002

• Foreign-invested Construction Rules in the PRC: Building the Future?

  New regulations from MOFTEC and the MOC mean that for the first time wholly foreign-owned construction companies can undertake work in China. However, some provisions remain ambiguous and may actually constitute hurdles for foreign investment in the PRC construction industry.

  November 30, 2002

• Preferential Treatment and National Treatment: The Evolving Status of FIEs

  Llinks Law OfficeSince China first set up its legal framework for foreign investment in the early 1980s, two fundamental issues have faced foreign investors…

  November 30, 2002

• Foreign Capital and SOEs: China's Forays into State Enterprise Reform

  Reforming China's state-owned enterprises is crucial to any economic reform efforts. A preliminary step has been made to introduce foreign investment into the public sector, and comes amid a more broadly based legislative effort to revamp China's economy.

  November 30, 2002