China Promulgates its New Regulations for the Implementation of Foreign Investment Law

14 Jan 2020 ChinaWatch
On 26 December 2019, the State Council of the People's Republic of China (“PRC”) promulgated the new PRC Regulations for the Implementation (“RI”) of Foreign Investment Law (“FIL”). The purpose of the RI is to further elaborate the details and implement the FIL already promulgated in March 2019. The RI, together with FIL, came into force on 1 January 2020 and 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 were the laws applicable to foreign investments in PRC) and their respective regulations for implementation.
 
This update sets out a short summary of the salient terms of the new RI.
 
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