Category: Policies
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China Shifts VAT Burden for Freelancers to Paying Entities with November 1 Rules
Read more: China Shifts VAT Burden for Freelancers to Paying Entities with November 1 RulesSeptember 4, 2026 (InvestinChina.asia) – China’s Ministry of Finance and State Taxation Administration on Thursday published the Measures for Domestic Entities Withholding Value-Added Tax on Natural Persons, a landmark procedural rule that, from November 1, will require companies and institutions paying individuals for seven categories of services to withhold and remit VAT at the moment of…
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China Issues First Mandatory National Standards for Senior Care Facilities
Read more: China Issues First Mandatory National Standards for Senior Care FacilitiesSeptember 4, 2026 (InvestinChina.asia) – China’s market regulator and civil affairs ministry on Thursday unveiled two mandatory national standards for senior care institutions, drawing a hard compliance line across the entire lifecycle of elderly care facilities—from site selection and daily operation to exit—as the country grapples with one of the world’s fastest-deepening aging societies. The…
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China’s CSRC Unveils First Dedicated Rules for Private Fund Fundraising
Read more: China’s CSRC Unveils First Dedicated Rules for Private Fund FundraisingSeptember 4, 2026 (InvestinChina.asia) – China’s securities regulator on Thursday released its first standalone rulebook governing how private investment funds raise money, closing a long-standing gap in the country’s asset management oversight and raising the cost of noncompliance for thousands of fund managers. The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) published the Measures for the Supervision and…
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China Launches Three-Year Plan to Supercharge AI Startups
Read more: China Launches Three-Year Plan to Supercharge AI StartupsSeptember 4, 2026 (InvestinChina.asia) – The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has rolled out a sweeping three-year blueprint designed to turn China into a global hotbed of artificial-intelligence entrepreneurship. The AI Small-and-Medium Enterprise Startup Support Plan (2026–2028), issued on August 29 and made public this week, sets concrete targets that aim to double down…
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From Pilot to Platform: How the Comprehensive Account Reshapes China’s Brokerage Wealth-Management Race
Read more: From Pilot to Platform: How the Comprehensive Account Reshapes China’s Brokerage Wealth-Management RaceSeptember 3, 2026 (InvestinChina.asia) – The Securities Association of China (SAC) is soliciting industry feedback on the Guidelines on Comprehensive Account Management for Securities Company Clients (Draft for Comment), a move that would convert a four-year pilot program into routine, industry-wide business and bring a host of practical changes to tens of millions of brokerage clients.…
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China to Launch National SME Development Fund Phase II, Steering Capital to Early-Stage Hard Tech
Read more: China to Launch National SME Development Fund Phase II, Steering Capital to Early-Stage Hard TechSeptember 3, 2026 (InvestinChina.asia) – The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and nine other ministries and commissions have jointly issued the 15th Five-Year Plan for Promoting the Development of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, pledging to scale up direct financing support and establish the National SME Development Fund Phase II to steer social capital toward…
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China Convenes National Conference to Deploy Next-Generation Power Grid Buildout
Read more: China Convenes National Conference to Deploy Next-Generation Power Grid BuildoutSeptember 2, 2026 (InvestinChina.asia) — China’s National Energy Administration (NEA) on Monday convened a high-level work deployment conference in Beijing to lay out sweeping tasks for building a “new-type power grid,” signaling that the country’s grid modernization has shifted from blueprint to full-scale execution. NEA Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Administrator Wang Hongzhi…
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China Ends 11-Year Tax Holiday for Lithium Batteries, Hikes Rate to 4% by 2027 While Exempting Solid-State and Sodium-Ion
Read more: China Ends 11-Year Tax Holiday for Lithium Batteries, Hikes Rate to 4% by 2027 While Exempting Solid-State and Sodium-IonSeptember 1, 2026 (InvestinChina.asia) — China has begun implementing a phased adjustment to its battery consumption tax policy, ending an 11-year tax holiday for mature lithium-ion and other conventional battery technologies while extending exemptions to next-generation alternatives — a structural recalibration that industry analysts say accelerates the transition to newer chemistries. The Announcement on Adjusting the…
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China’s Seven Ministries Set 60 Trillion Yuan Retail Target for 2030 in Sweeping Consumption Upgrade Plan
Read more: China’s Seven Ministries Set 60 Trillion Yuan Retail Target for 2030 in Sweeping Consumption Upgrade PlanSeven Chinese ministries led by the Ministry of Commerce have jointly released a comprehensive implementation plan to expand and upgrade goods consumption, setting an ambitious target of lifting total retail sales of consumer goods to approximately 60 trillion yuan (about US$8.4 trillion) by 2030. The Implementation Opinions on Promoting the Expansion and Upgrading of Goods Consumption, issued under…
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Beijing Shifts Investment Promotion From “Preferential Deals” to “Business Environment” as Cabinet Passes Draft Tax Administration Law
Read more: Beijing Shifts Investment Promotion From “Preferential Deals” to “Business Environment” as Cabinet Passes Draft Tax Administration LawThe State Council on Monday steered China’s investment-promotion machinery away from subsidy-and-incentive competition toward a model built on business environment, industrial ecosystem and high-quality government services, while passing a draft revision of the Tax Administration Law that officials say will advance tax fairness and improve fiscal governance. Presiding over the executive meeting, Premier Li Qiang…