Foreign Investment Information Reporting System: What Would You Expect After China has Abolished the Approval and Filing System for Foreign Investment in China?

With the PRC Foreign Investment Law and its Implementation Regulation being enacted on 1 January 2020, China has officially abolished the foreign investment approval (and filing) system. The Ministry of Commerce and its local agencies are now in charge of the new foreign investment information reporting system, which was implemented simultaneously along with the Foreign Investment Law and its Implementation Regulation. In order to implement the new information reporting system, the authorities have issued certain measures and announcements, including the Measures for Foreign Investment Information Reporting. In this Update, we detail some significant points of these measures.

A New Era of Foreign Investment Regulatory Regime in China: State Council of China Issues Implementation Regulation of Foreign Investment Law

Further to the new PRC Foreign Investment Law ("Foreign Investment Law") which was passed on 15 March 2019 and has come into effect since 1 January 2020, the State Council of China promulgated the Regulation on Implementation of the Foreign Investment Law (中华人民共和国外商投资法实施条例, the "Implementation Regulation") on 31 December 2019, which has also come into effect since 1 January 2020. We set out in this Update some salient points of the Implementation Regulation.