FTZ Setup / 自贸区落地, Negative List / 负面清单, Policy Updates / 政策动态
2026-09-30
The State Council issued a notice on replicating and rolling out the mature pilot measures for aligning free trade pilot zones with high-standard international economic and trade rules, taking...
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...
2026-09-17
On 11 September 2026 the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) published the "Data Export Security Management Policy and Regulation Q&A (September 2026)", its first operational interpretation of the Personal...
Healthcare & Pharma / 医药医疗, Sector Restrictions / 分行业限制
2026-09-17
The Action Plan for Stabilising and Optimising the Utilisation of Foreign Investment (商资发〔2026〕97号, issued 16 June 2026 by MOFCOM, NDRC and MOF) commits the government to "expedite the study...
Admission Approval / 准入审批, Policy Updates / 政策动态
2026-09-17
The 2026 China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS, 服贸会) ran 9–13 September in Beijing with 90 countries and international organisations exhibiting, more than 1,830 enterprises exhibiting offline,...
2026-08-28
RCEP services commitments run on two tracks: seven of the fifteen members scheduled on a negative list, while China and the other seven used a positive list and must...
2026-08-28
The "double reduction" (双减) policy keeps a hard red line on for-profit, subject-based tutoring for compulsory-education students, and that line applies equally to online delivery. "双减"政策对义务教育阶段学科类培训维持营利性禁止的硬红线，且该红线同样适用于线上形式。The 2026 national...
2026-08-28
In 2026 the national foreign investment negative list stays at 29 items, but regulators have committed to "timely reduction", with services as the priority and telecom, internet, education, culture...
2026-08-28
The revised Foreign Trade Law, which took effect on 1 March 2026, is the first law to codify a cross-border services trade negative list at the national level, placing...
2026-08-28
China's unified market-access negative list was cut to 106 items in the 2025 edition, down from 117 in 2022, extending the "national single list" model and enforcing the "non-prohibited-is-open"...