China Trade Information

　　After joining the WTO, China will adapt its laws and regulations to conform to the WTO‘s fundamental rules, improve and develop China‘s socialist market economy, and create suitable conditions for fair competition between domestic and foreign enterprises. The Chinese government has committed itself to continuing opening its commodities market to the outside world, while simultaneously [...]

　　In order to guarantee the legitimate rights and interests of foreign-invested enterprises and their employees, the Chinese government has formulated the Regulations of the Labor Management in Foreign-Invested Enterprises, making stipulations concerning employee recruitment and training, vacation and leave, and salaries, etc.
　　1). Protecting the Legitimate Rights and Interests of Foreign-invested Enterprises
　　According to relevant state laws [...]

　　According to the Interim Provisions Concerning the Investment within China of Foreign-invested Enterprises jointly issued by the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation and the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, investment within China of foreign-invested enterprises refers to Sino-foreign equity joint ventures, Sino-foreign contractual joint ventures and wholly foreign-owned enterprises which are established [...]

　　To encourage transnational companies to invest in China and attract advanced foreign technology and management experience, the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation promulgated in April 1995 Provincial Regulations Concerning Establishment of Foreign-funded Investment Companies (hereafter referred to as the Provisional Regulations), permitting foreign investors to establish investment companies in China. In August 1999, [...]

　　To regulate investment and operation of foreign shipping companies in China and protect the legitimate rights and interests of investors, the Chinese Ministry of Communications and the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation have promulgated the Provisional Regulations on the Examination and Approval of Wholly Foreign-funded Shipping Companies, permitting foreign shipping companies to set [...]

　　To meet the needs of the reform and opening-up, and to promote healthy development of Chinese medical and public health undertakings, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation have promulgated Provisional Measures for the Administration of Chinese-Foreign Equity and Contractual Joint Venture Medical Institutions, in accordance with laws and [...]