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China eliminates cryptocurrency mining while encourages blockchain information services

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.

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

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.

Mandatory infringement liability of the licensor is removed in technology transfer

Casper Sek and Ben Qi of Jin Mao Partners examine the newly introduced provisions on blockchain information services and discuss their regulatory scope and how they will regulate such services.

China's IP protection regime has been steadily improving, driven more by the needs to serve domestic innovation, than foreign concerns.

Unmanned aerial vehicles are regulated to mitigate risks