Industry Applications

I cannot stress enough how important it is to determine straight from the beginning the official status of the industry sector your business falls into and, hence, whether or not some form of Chinese involvement will be needed. To find out, you should refer to the so-called “Catalogues,” which are two different documents. The first is the Catalogue for the Guidance of Foreign Investment Industries, applying to the whole of China, and the second is the Catalogue of Priority Industries for Foreign Investment and covers the Central-Western Region. The Catalogue for the Guidance of Foreign Investment, published by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM), categorizes industries ...

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