Foreign investment access restrictions in the manufacturing sector "cleared"

On September 8, the "Special Administrative Measures for Foreign Investment Access (Negative List) (2024 Edition) " came into force on November 1, 2024. The 2024 edition of the national negative list of restrictions on foreign investment access was reduced from 31 to 29, and the two entries "Publications printing must be controlled by the Chinese side" were deleted, as well as "Prohibiting investment in the application of processing technologies such as steaming, stir-frying, broiling, and calcining of traditional Chinese medicine decoction pieces, and the production of confidential prescription products of proprietary Chinese medicines" were deleted. The restrictions on foreign investment access in the manufacturing sector were "cleared". Areas outside the negative list were managed in accordance with the principle of consistency between domestic and foreign investment, and foreign-invested enterprises were given national treatment.