IP Protection in the Pharmaceutical Industry

How China’s New Food Safety Law (NFSL) impacts exporters of ‘health food’ and special foods

Patient safety is a serious global public health topic that sits atop the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) agenda .

The PRC Law on Environmental Protection Tax and Interim Provisions on the Administration of Pollutant Discharge Permits

Due to their wide-ranging downstream applications and impact on the overall market, industrial gases have been dubbed the ‘blood’ of industry.

Xi Jinping promised the World Economic Forum in January that China would resist the global trend toward protectionism and champion economic globalisation . While the Chinese president’s message was welcome, the reality is that Beijing has doubled down on industrial policy that might damage its own…

On 7th March, the European Chamber released our first major publication of the year, China Manufacturing 2025: Putting Industrial Policy Ahead of Market .

Since 2015, the European Chamber has gradually been shifting the policy spotlight onto local issues, with the release of a series of local position papers.

In recent years, the general public has become increasingly concerned about food and beverage (F&B) safety issues in China.

 Despite being widely anticipated to be uneventful, ahead of President Xi Jinping’s personnel shuffle later this year, the 2017 ‘Two Sessions’ (lianghui) were full of signposts.