Retail Trade and Distribution

A key reason for China being left out of the world's largest trade deal is the obstruction to innovation and competition caused by the lack of IP rights protection. Here are all the ways China needs to catch up

China implements the MAH system.

This article is from the Regulatory & Compliance chapter of the 2015 Annual Review and is available for download here.Yuhua Yang of Llinks…

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New Advertising Law defines false advertisements.

This year's report carefully selects 35 typical cases from among the intellectual property and competition cases concluded by the Supreme People's Court in 2014.

Daniel Shih, senior vice president and general counsel of Walmart China, explains how his team deals with workforce challenges and shifting legal landscapes in consumer protection, food safety and FDI

Unified FTZ negative list reduces the number of items to 122 as compared to 139 items on the 2014 Shanghai FTZ negative list.

The much-anticipated Food Safety Law amendment increases and consolidates regulatory supervision, establishes traceability and self-inspection systems, covers more types of food and imposes harsher punishments