Issued: February 13 2014Main contents: The Draft greatly narrows the scope of control over the amounts involved in the provision of domestic security…

Forex registration for FDI in the Shanghai free trade zone streamlined.

The number of temporary placement workers used by enterprises may not be more than 10% of the enterprises' total workforce.

This week GE was forced to recall faulty baby warmers, the State Administration of Industry and Commerce began revising the Anti-unfair Competition Law and the role of CFIUS in approving Chinese deals was looked at

This week the Shanghai Stock Exchange relaxed the rules for Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors, the Securities Association of China established a negative list and the PBOC set limits for online payments

Foreign-invested partnerships no longer need to undergo annual inspection but are required to publish their annual reports.

The State Council has abolished certain M&A examination requirements, while the CSRC has launched a pilot project for preference shares and set percentages for private placement of newly-offered shares

This week the SAIC fined Nu Skin for illegal direct sales, more Snowden documents showed that the NSA has been hacking Huawei, China was called out for manipulating the global supply of rare earths and the irony of SOE privatisation was discussed

An increasing number of judges in Shanghai are quitting every year and replacing them is proving difficult. The government needs to act quickly to maintain the quality of decision making and the faith of litigants