On 3 September 2016, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress announced the decision on Revising Four Laws including the PRC Laws on Wholly Foreign-owned Enterprises, Sino-Foreign Equity Joint Ventures, Sino-Foreign Cooperative Joint Ventures and the Protection of the Investments of Taiwan Compatriots. On the same day, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce disclosed the Interim Measures for the Record-filing Administration of the Establishment and Change of Foreign-invested Enterprises (Draft for Comment) for public comments as supporting measures (the final version is to be announced).
According to this new amendment on Four Laws, for foreign invested enterprises the relevant approval items not involving the special access administrative measures prescribed by the State shall be subject to record-filing administration. Since 1 October 2016, the record filling under negative list mode for investment administration, which was only adopt by China Pilot Frees Trade Zones, implement throughout the whole China. With loosening the administration on foreign invested enterprise, the benefits of new system are expected to encourage more and more foreign investment national wide.