General

On August 30, the State Council Information Office held a press conference on the 22nd China International Trade and Investment Fair. Guo Tingting, Assistant Minister of Commerce, said that my country will promptly introduce a new batch of policies and measures to stabilize foreign investment, including the launch of a new version of the "Catalogue of Industries for Encouraging Foreign Investment".

Guo Tingting said at the press conference that since the beginning of this year, all localities and regions have insisted on coordinating epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development, and continuously optimized the market-oriented, legalized, and international business environment. Foreign-funded enterprises are still generally optimistic about their investment prospects in China. In the first seven months of this year, the scale of China's foreign investment has maintained a steady growth.

In the next step, the Ministry of Commerce will thoroughly implement the decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, adhere to both promoting growth and stabilizing stock, and continue to do a good job in attracting, securing and stabilizing business, attracting more multinational companies to invest in China and share China's development. opportunities and dividends. It will focus on the following aspects:

First, we will promptly introduce a new batch of policies and measures to stabilize foreign investment. Including stepping up the launch of a new version of the "Catalogue of Industries Encouraged for Foreign Investment", and further expanding the scope of encouraging foreign investment in advanced manufacturing, technological innovation, modern services and other fields. Actively introduce relevant special policies to promote investment in the manufacturing industry and the development of foreign R&D centers, and guide foreign businessmen to continue to increase investment in China in the fields of manufacturing and R&D.

The second is to increase investment promotion, successfully hold key exhibitions such as the 22nd CIFIT, actively carry out investment promotion in the industrial chain, and attract more foreign-funded enterprises to operate in China. It will also continue to organize and hold events such as local tours of multinational companies and the China International Import Expo, and guide foreign-funded enterprises to go to the central, western and northeastern regions to take a walk, take a look, inspect the environment, and expand investment. At the same time, it will also promote the establishment of comprehensive pilot areas for the expansion and opening of the service industry, introduce more reform and innovation pilot measures, replicate and promote a new batch of pilot results, and promote the institutional opening of the national service industry.

The third is to further improve the level of foreign-funded services, and will continue to give full play to the role of foreign-funded special classes, strengthen regular communication with foreign-funded enterprises and foreign business associations through forums, video conferences and other methods, and actively respond to the demands of enterprises. It will also improve the dynamic update mechanism for the list of key foreign investment projects, launch a new batch of key international trade projects, and strengthen full-process services and all-round guarantees.

Fourth, we will continue to optimize the business environment. We will cooperate with the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress to carry out enforcement inspections of foreign investment laws, and urge all parties to fully implement various legal systems for the promotion, protection and management of foreign investment, especially the national treatment of international trade enterprises. The 2022 version of the "Guidelines for Foreign Investment in China" was released to guide local governments to make good use of the complaint mechanism for foreign-funded enterprises and further improve the level of investment protection.