2026-08-28
The State Council's National Health 15th Five-Year Plan (Guo Fa No. 23) explicitly calls for expanding the wholly foreign-owned hospital pilot and steadily advancing international medical services pilots....
2026-08-28
China's unified Market Access Negative List (2025 edition) was cut to 106 items, down from 117 in 2022, while the foreign-investment access list stands at 29 national items with...
2026-08-28
As of the 2024 negative list, manufacturing is fully open to foreign investment with no remaining restricted entries.自 2024 年版负面清单起，制造业全面向外资产开放，已无残留受限条目。Foreign investors may wholly own manufacturing WFOEs in China without...
2026-08-28
Most financial sub-sectors are now fully open to foreign ownership after caps were removed in 2020–2021.随着 2020—2021 年股比上限取消，多数金融子行业已全面向外资产开放。Value-added telecom services have been further opened in designated pilot areas rather...
2026-08-28
China's foreign-investment negative list has been shortened in every major revision since 2013, with entries falling from over 100 to about 30.中国外资负面清单自 2013 年起历次重大修订持续缩减，条目由百余项降至约 30 项。The 2024 version deleted...
2026-08-28
Sector restrictions on foreign investment in China are organized through the foreign-investment negative list, not a scattered set of laws.中国对外资的分行业限制通过外资负面清单组织，而非分散于各法律。The 2024 negative list removed the entire manufacturing category, leaving...
2026-08-28
At the national level, manufacturing is effectively open, agriculture and mining carry a few hard prohibitions, and services, media, education and healthcare hold most remaining restrictions. 全国层面制造业基本放开；农业与矿业保留少量硬性禁止；服务业、传媒、教育、医疗承载了剩余限制的主要部分。Agriculture bans...
2026-08-28
Incorporation and operating-licence approval are two separate tracks, and foreign investors must budget for both.设立登记与经营许可审批是两条独立轨道，外资投资者须为二者分别预留时间与资源。Most post-incorporation licences apply equally to domestic and foreign firms and are not foreign-access restrictions.多数设立后许可对内资外资企业一体适用，并非外资准入限制。The...
2026-08-28
Free-trade zones operate a shorter foreign-investment negative list than the nationwide list, opening more sectors to foreign capital.自由贸易试验区施行比全国版更短的外资负面清单，向外资开放更多行业。FTZs pilot "inform-and-commit" (告知承诺制) and one-window admission, compressing the time from application...
2026-08-28
The 2020 Foreign Investment Law replaced case-by-case approval with pre-establishment national treatment plus a negative list.《外商投资法》（2020 年）以"准入前国民待遇加负面清单"取代了逐案审批。The default foreign-investment pathway is now filing and information reporting, not commerce-department approval.外资准入的默认路径如今是备案与信息报告，而非商务部门审批。Only...