The Catalogue has been revised since the 2007 revision. Venture investment enterprises and intellectual property services are added to the encouraged category while the manufacture of assembled automobiles is removed from the category.
New developments in e-commerce regulation bring the issue of intellectual property infringement and the liability of e-commerce operators to light. A landmark case in China removed the defence of the “Safe Harbor Principle” for the first time, and should serve as an admonition to online platforms
Helming a team of over 100 lawyers, General Counsel of Foxconn Technology Group (China's largest private employer), Sterry Fang shares about his department's structure and its commitment to developing and implementing a “well-being” programme for its employees
New regulations finally allow FIEs to engage in the master distribution of Chinese publications and expand the scope of foreign investor participation by lowering entry thresholds and eliminating term of operation restrictions
The 2010 Report selected 43 issues with broad guiding significance from 36 cases including: determination of the equivalence of technical features in a patent infringement dispute and protection of a design under the Anti-unfair Competition Law after the patent expires.
The Announcement allows tax exemption, setoff and refund of tax of integrated circuit design, software design and animation design enterprises to be extended to entrustment of processing.