On 10 September 2026 the State Council Information Office...China’s 15th Five-Year Plan for a Financial Powerhouse: What It Changes for Foreign Financial Institutions - Read more
Aircraft Leasing in Hengqin: Inside the 2026 Guangdong-Macao Support Measures
On 9 September 2026, the Hengqin Guangdong-Macao In-Depth Cooperation...Aircraft Leasing in Hengqin: Inside the 2026 Guangdong-Macao Support Measures - Read more
AI-Related Inventions and Trademark Evidence in China: The September 2026 Examination Standards
China's new Patent Examination Guidelines, in force since 1...AI-Related Inventions and Trademark Evidence in China: The September 2026 Examination Standards - Read more
China's national foreign-investment negative list stands at 29 items...China’s Foreign Investment Negative List in 2026: Sector Opening, Encouraged Catalogue and Market Access in Practice - Read more
On 14 September 2026, the China (Hebei) Pilot Free...Foreign Investment Security Review in China: September 2026 Filing Practice and Local Support Mechanisms - Read more
Foreign M&A Rules in China: The 2026 Update and What It Means for Inbound Deals
China's 2026 foreign-investment agenda puts foreign M&A management at...Foreign M&A Rules in China: The 2026 Update and What It Means for Inbound Deals - Read more
In September 2026, the Fengtai District (Beijing) and Qingdao...Mutual Recognition of Foreign Investor Credentials: The Fengtai–Qingdao Pilot and Faster Cross-City FIE Setup - Read more
China applies a substance-over-form principle to red-chip and VIE...Red-Chip and VIE Structures in China: Substance-Over-Form Scrutiny and the 2026 Offshore Listing Filing Path - Read more
Inbound Travel and Departure Tax Refunds in China: The September 2026 Facilitation Update
From 1 September 2026, China's departure-tax-refund service moved from...Inbound Travel and Departure Tax Refunds in China: The September 2026 Facilitation Update - Read more
Under the Company Law effective 1 July 2024, limited-liability...Registered Capital for Foreign-Invested Enterprises in China: Contribution Deadlines and 2026 Filing Rules - Read more
2026-08-28
Alipay and WeChat Pay now accept foreign cards (UnionPay, Visa, Mastercard, JCB).支付宝与微信支付已支持绑定境外银行卡（银联、Visa、Mastercard、JCB），覆盖绝大多数线下扫码付款场景。Baidu Maps and AMap (Gaode) are the two essential navigation apps in China.百度地图与高德地图是来华必备的导航工具，提供公交、地铁、步行与驾车实时路线。Both maps also handle hotel booking...
2026-09-20
On 10 September 2026 the State Council Information Office held a press conference where the PBC, the NFRA, the CSRC and SAFE introduced the newly issued 15th Five-Year Plan...
Financial License / 金融牌照, Greater Bay Area / 大湾区
2026-09-20
On 9 September 2026, the Hengqin Guangdong-Macao In-Depth Cooperation Zone issued the Measures supporting high-quality development of the aircraft-leasing industry through Guangdong-Macao linkage, effective from 30 September 2026 and...
2026-09-20
China's new Patent Examination Guidelines, in force since 1 January 2026, require that the inventor be a natural person and that an artificial-intelligence system may not be named as...
Negative List / 负面清单, Policy Updates / 政策动态
2026-09-20
China's national foreign-investment negative list stands at 29 items and the free-trade-zone version at 27 items, with all manufacturing access restrictions eliminated — including the removal of the "publication...
2026-09-20
On 14 September 2026, the China (Hebei) Pilot Free Trade Zone Zhengding Area released a Filing Guide for Foreign-Investment Security Review that establishes a four-tier process: enterprise filing, zone...
Foreign M&A / 外资并购, Policy Updates / 政策动态
2026-09-20
China's 2026 foreign-investment agenda puts foreign M&A management at the centre: the Action Plan (Shang Zi Fa No. 97) commits to revising the rules on foreign investors' acquisition...
One-stop Window / 一站式窗口, Setup Process / 设立流程
2026-09-20
In September 2026, the Fengtai District (Beijing) and Qingdao market-regulation authorities issued the Interim Measures on Mutual Recognition of Foreign Investors' Eligibility Documents, effective from 9 September 2026 and...
Policy Updates / 政策动态, VIE Structure / VIE架构
2026-09-20
China applies a substance-over-form principle to red-chip and VIE structures: the architecture cannot be used to circumvent foreign-investment admission, technology-export control, data-export and outbound-investment requirements.中国对红筹与 VIE 架构适用实质重于形式的穿透原则：架构设计不得用于规避外商投资准入、技术出口管制、数据出境与对外投资管理的要求。 The Ministry of...
2026-09-20
From 1 September 2026, China's departure-tax-refund service moved from paper-based verification to online review: tax-refund shops can upload the foreign visitor's identity document when issuing an "instant refund" application,...
Registered Capital / 注册资本, Setup Process / 设立流程
2026-09-20
Under the Company Law effective 1 July 2024, limited-liability shareholders must pay up subscribed capital within five years of incorporation, and pre-2024 companies whose remaining subscription term exceeds five...