China Promulgates its New Foreign Investment Law

20 Mar 2019 ChinaWatch

On 15 March 2019, the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China ("PRC") promulgated the new PRC Foreign Investment Law ("FIL"). When the new 2019 FIL comes into force on 1 January 2020, it will repeal the PRC Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprise Law, PRC Sino-foreign Equity Joint Venture Law and PRC Sino-foreign Contractual Joint Venture Law (which are currently the laws applicable to foreign investments in PRC).

This Update sets out a short summary of the salient terms of the new FIL.

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