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...
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,...
E-commerce Entry / 电商入华, Policy Updates / 政策动态
2026-09-17
The fifth Global Digital Trade Expo (GDTE) will run 23–27 September 2026 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang; at the State Council Information Office press conference on 7 September the Ministry of...
2026-09-17
Eight central departments led by the Ministry of Commerce jointly issued the "Action Plan for Promoting Smart Home Consumption" (商消费发〔2026〕148号, dated 2 September 2026, published 14 September), a seven-part...