Has the pilot reform scheme on the Administration for Industry Commerce (AIC) registration system created a more favourable environment for foreign companies in China?

On 15th November the ‘Decision on Major Issues Concerning Comprehensively Deepening Reform’ (Decision) from the Third Plenum of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) was released. It provided details on the reform programme put forward by the new administration of…

On the heels of the release of the Third Plenum Decision the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China has issued the following statement:

The direction of China’s reform plan has become more tangible thanks to a roadmap sketched out by an influential government think tank.

Shanghai Municipal Government release Free Trade Zone negative list

Will China’s urbanisation process result in improvements to social welfare and an eventual reform of the hukou system?

Urbanisation in China’s new era

The first half of 2013 has been an unusually turbulent period for companies in China.

Shanghai Free Trade Zone to include significant foreign investment liberalisation. 

On 5th September, 2013, the European Chamber published the European Business in China Position Paper 2013/2014.