2017 foreign investment catalogue: the debut of nationwide negative list in China | Practical Law
On 28 June 2017, the NDRC and MOFCOM jointly released the 2017 Catalogue for the Guidance of Foreign Investment. The new catalogue cuts 30 restrictive measures to foreign investors and opens up new market opportunities. The new catalogue introduces the first nationwide negative list for foreign investment by combining all restrictive measures under the "encouraged", "restricted" and "prohibited" categories into one section titled "special management measures". This negative list helps foreign investors to determine whether an investment project will be subject to the traditional MOFCOM examination and approval procedure, or instead will be governed by the new FIE record-filing regime.