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...
Policy Updates / 政策动态, Structure Choice / 架构选择
2026-09-10
On 3 September 2026 the Shanghai municipal government outlined the foreign-investment agenda of its 15th Five-Year Plan for accelerating the building of an international trade centre: four priorities —...
2026-09-01
The 2026 versions of the registration document and submission-material standards, in force since 1 May 2026, add specific paperwork for two new Company Law scenarios: capital-reduction registration where shareholders...
Policy Updates / 政策动态, Structure Choice / 架构选择
2026-09-01
The June 2026 "Action Plan for Stabilising and Improving Foreign Investment" promises to accelerate the revision of the 2006 Measures on foreign investors' acquisition of domestic enterprises (Order No....
2026-08-30
On 14 August 2026 the CSRC's International Department published its feedback round for offshore-listing filings received 10–14 August: eight companies, several of them manufacturers planning A+H listings in Hong...
2026-08-28
Article 54 lets a creditor force early payment of unpaid subscribed capital once the company cannot settle a matured debt — no bankruptcy filing required. 第54条规定，公司不能清偿到期债务时，债权人即可要求未届出资期限的股东提前缴纳出资，无需先进入破产程序。A distant contribution...
2026-08-28
The revised Strategic Investment Measures, effective 2 December 2024, lower thresholds for foreign strategic investment in A-share listed companies across five dimensions: foreign natural persons, asset requirements, tender offers,...
2026-08-28
Since 1 January 2020, foreign-invested enterprises (FIEs) are no longer carved into CJV/EJV/WFOE types; they take the same company or partnership forms as domestic firms under the Company Law...
2026-08-28
The 2025 "Action Plan for Stabilizing Foreign Investment" removed the restriction on foreign-invested investment companies using domestic RMB loans for equity investment, easing onshore funding for holding structures. ...
Setup Process / 设立流程, Structure Choice / 架构选择
2026-08-28
The Foreign Investment Law took effect on 1 January 2020 and repealed the three former statutes, so an FIE's organisational form and internal organs now follow the Company Law...