Category: Policies
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China Issues Guidelines for Automakers’ Overseas Competition and Compliance, Targeting Pricing, Data Security and Antitrust Risks
Read more: China Issues Guidelines for Automakers’ Overseas Competition and Compliance, Targeting Pricing, Data Security and Antitrust RisksSeptember 1, 2026 (InvestinChina.asia) – China has unveiled its first dedicated guidelines governing the overseas competitive conduct and compliance practices of its automotive companies, in a move designed to rein in disorderly price competition and provide a systematic risk-management framework for an industry rapidly scaling up its global footprint. The Guidelines for Overseas Competition Conduct and…
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China Ends 32-Year Tax Exemption on Foreign Investors’ Dividends from Foreign-Funded Firms
Read more: China Ends 32-Year Tax Exemption on Foreign Investors’ Dividends from Foreign-Funded FirmsSeptember 1, 2026 (InvestinChina.asia) — China has repealed a 32-year-old tax exemption that allowed foreign individuals to receive dividends and bonuses from foreign-invested enterprises (FIEs) without paying personal income tax, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) and the State Taxation Administration (STA) announced on Tuesday. Under Announcement No. 27 of 2026, released by the two departments on…
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China Steps Up AI Commercialization Push with Service Provider Resource Pool, Token Procurement Support
Read more: China Steps Up AI Commercialization Push with Service Provider Resource Pool, Token Procurement SupportAugust 31, 2026 (InvestinChina.asia) — The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) on Monday unveiled a special campaign to cultivate artificial intelligence application service providers, setting explicit headcount targets for a national resource pool and throwing policy weight behind procurement of large models, agents and tokens, as well as the overseas rollout of AI…
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Beijing Extends Mortgage Tenor to 40 Years: A Targeted Nudge for China’s Last Leveragers, Not a Broad Stimulus
Read more: Beijing Extends Mortgage Tenor to 40 Years: A Targeted Nudge for China’s Last Leveragers, Not a Broad StimulusChina’s financial regulators have unveiled the most comprehensive overhaul of real estate credit rules in over a decade, but one widely-read market commentary argues the headline-grabbing 40-year mortgage is not what it appears to be — it is not a lifeline for overleveraged homeowners, but a precisely aimed incentive for the small slice of the…
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From Price Wars to Inspection Raids: China’s Strategic Pivot to Quality-First Automotive Manufacturing
Read more: From Price Wars to Inspection Raids: China’s Strategic Pivot to Quality-First Automotive ManufacturingChina’s top economic and law-enforcement regulators have initiated a sweeping one-year national campaign to audit the quality, reliability, and technical validation standards of all road vehicles, throwing a massive regulatory hurdle in the path of the industry’s notoriously rapid product launch cycles and “non-rational” price wars. The joint initiative, published on August 27 by the…
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China Opens Wider Funding Channels for Listed Developers, Ending Bias Against Private Firms
Read more: China Opens Wider Funding Channels for Listed Developers, Ending Bias Against Private FirmsCSRC releases a 12-article opinion that reroutes property financing from “reliance on issuer credit” toward “project-based” funding — and promises equal treatment for state-owned and private builders alike. China’s top securities regulator on Thursday evening unveiled a sweeping guideline designed to reopen capital-market pipelines for listed real estate developers, in what market participants are calling…
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China Sets 20% Tax on Individual Sales of Restricted Stock, Demands Cost-Basis Disclosure
Read more: China Sets 20% Tax on Individual Sales of Restricted Stock, Demands Cost-Basis DisclosureChina moved on Friday to standardize how individuals pay tax on the sale of restricted shares in listed companies, issuing a joint circular that fixes the applicable rate at 20%, tightens the calculation of cost basis, and establishes a unified settlement process for taxpayers. The rules were published as Announcement No. 26 of 2026 by the Ministry…
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China Overhauls Property Loan Rules to Curb Defaults, Protect Homebuyers
Read more: China Overhauls Property Loan Rules to Curb Defaults, Protect HomebuyersChina’s central bank and financial regulator jointly released a landmark policy package on Friday that fundamentally rewrites the rules for real estate lending, in the biggest shake-up of property finance in two decades. The document, titled Opinions on Reforming and Improving Real Estate Credit Management to Accelerate the Building of a New Model for Real…
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China’s Unified Asset-Management Disclosure Rules Take Effect Sept 1, Reshaping How Banks, Trusts and Insurers Report to Investors
Read more: China’s Unified Asset-Management Disclosure Rules Take Effect Sept 1, Reshaping How Banks, Trusts and Insurers Report to InvestorsAfter an eight-month transition window, the Measures for the Administration of Information Disclosure of Asset Management Products of Banking and Insurance Institutions will officially take effect on September 1, 2026, replacing a patchwork of inconsistent rules with a single, binding standard for how China’s banks, trust companies and insurance asset managers communicate with investors. Issued by the…
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Shanghai Sets 2.1 Trillion Yuan Target for Strategic Emerging Industries in New Five-Year Blueprint
Read more: Shanghai Sets 2.1 Trillion Yuan Target for Strategic Emerging Industries in New Five-Year BlueprintThe municipal government has released its long-anticipated “15th Five-Year Plan for Strategic Emerging Industries,” targeting 2.1 trillion yuan in value-added output and signaling its ambition to become a globally dominant innovation hub by the end of the decade. Key Targets at a Glance Shanghai’s municipal government on Wednesday released its long-anticipated “15th Five-Year Plan for…