CHINA Restrictions on Investment into Free Trade Zones in China Further LoosenedOn 16 June 2017, China officially released its updated negative list for admission of foreign investment in the free trade zones, which will be implemented with effect from 10 July 2017. Compared to the 2015 version, the new negative list has cut 10 items and 27 restrictions across eight industries. Railway transport equipment manufacturing, pharmaceutical manufacturing (except for manufacturing traditional Chinese patent medicines with confidential prescriptions and investing in applications of processing technology of traditional Chinese medicines prepared in ready-to-use forms), road transport, reinsurance cede-in or cede-out business, accounting and audit are no longer included in the "negative list".
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