Heng An Standard Life Insurance becomes the first foreign-invested pensions insurer to win CBIRC approval; Shanghai announces plans for more corporate tax cuts this year; and China mulls closure of virtual currency mining outfits.

Guiding catalogue of industrial structure encourages big data and AI technology, banks' liability for asset management is protected and draft regulations are issued on carbon trading.

With streamlined and registration-based rules issued last month, the new Sci-Tech Board is rapidly attracting IPO applications.

The revised Regulations remove provisions on restrictive clauses of technology import contracts

VAT rates are lowered for import and export

Following the tragic Yancheng explosion, China is reviewing its related safety regulations; the government released the names of 197 information providers now registered in the use of blockchain-based technology; and laws controlling production of the drug Fentanyl have now been extended to all its derivatives.

Interim measures are offered in mainland China for Hong Kong arbitration cases, repayment sequence is clarified for bankruptcy cases and full disclosure of VIE structure is required for listing on the Science and Technology Board.

China's policy makers have boosted efforts to tackle unfair competition in recent months, but foreign companies remain skeptical of whether policy and legislation will actually translate into practice.

Mandatory infringement liability of the licensor is removed in technology transfer