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Foreign Investment
- In the first two months, the actualized foreign investment in China increased by 37.9% year-on-year, a new high despite last year's high base. Could the Ministry of Commerce elaborate on the reasons?(2022-03-17)
- Recently, Beijing, Shanghai, among other localities published their foreign investment attraction projects for 2021. A number of new foreign investment projects were initiated. What measures will MOFOCOM take to stabilize foreign investment for the year of 2022?(2022-01-13)
- Could you please talk about newly established foreign-invested enterprises (FIEs) this year? What’s MOFCOM’s assessment of how China’s business environment has improved?(2021-12-30)
- The 2021 version of foreign investment negative lists have been published lately. What are the new changes and highlights of the new lists?(2021-12-30)
- This year marks the 20th anniversary of China’s accession to the WTO. What has China achieved in attracting FDI in the past 20 years? What are the highlights?(2021-12-09)
- MOFCOM previously announced that it has been working on the 2021 negative list for foreign investment access that will be further shortened. How is it going now? When will the new version be released?(2021-11-25)
- The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development recently said that the global foreign investment flow in 2021 is likely to exceed the pre-pandemic level. What’s MOFCOM’s take on China’s utilization of foreign capital since this year? What’s MOFCOM’s outlook for the effect of “stabilizing foreign investment” in 2021?(2021-11-18)
- We know that doing foreign investment work well is a requirement for building the new development paradigm. How should we use foreign investment better to participate in reshaping global industrial chains and encouraging multinational enterprises to invest in China and surrounding areas in their global business layout?(2021-09-16)
- The latest MOFCOM data shows that paid-in FDI in the first 7 months of this year reached RMB 672.19 billion, a year-on-year increase of 25.5%. Some believe that paid-in FDI growth this year outpaced former expectation. What is MOFCOM’s take on the latest data?(2021-08-19)
- It is reported that the revision of the 2021 negative list for foreign investment market access is nearly done and will be made public soon. Is that true? What are the targeted areas of this revision?(2021-08-19)
- MOFCOM’s 14th Five-Year Plan mentions “improving the national security review system of foreign investment and conducting security screening on foreign investment that would or could affect national security”, which has caught the attention of many foreign enterprises. What issues should foreign-invested enterprises (FIEs) in China pay special attention to as they, for instance, promote and make products? What is MOFCOM’s plan to make sure that more FIEs will be encouraged to develop in China?(2021-07-15)
- The foreign investment negative lists for nationwide application and for Pilot Free Trade Zones were published on June 24th last year. When will the 2021 version negative lists come out? How are things going and which areas will be opened further?(2021-06-24)
- In the first five months of this year, more than 18,000 foreign-invested enterprises were established nationwide, up 48.6% year-on-year and 12.4% compared with the same period in 2019, among which the paid-in investment from the EU increased by 16.8% year-on-year. Does this mean that China is still an important foreign investment destination despite the rising anti-globalization trend?(2021-06-17)
- We noted that MOFCOM has recently released China’s FDI figures of the first five months. What are the characteristics of FDI growth in China? What are the uncertainties in foreign investment attraction? How will MOFCOM implement the applicable policies going forward?(2021-06-17)
- Recently, the Ministry of Commerce held symposiums with foreign-invested enterprises in the pharmaceutical industry, American Chamber of Commerce in China and German Chamber of Commerce in China. Why did the Ministry of Commerce hold intensive discussions with foreign-invested enterprises? What is the focus of the next-step work about foreign-invested enterprises?(2021-05-27)