Benesch (JD Supra China)

On October 17, 2020, the Export Control Law of the People’s Republic of China (“EC Law”) was finally promulgated after three rounds of deliberation by the 13th National People’s Congress. The new EC Law will take effect on December 1, 2020.

On February 20, 2020, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the Ministry of Finance, and the State Taxation Administration of the People’s Republic of China jointly released the Notice regarding Provisional Reduction and Exemption of Social Insurance Contributions Borne by Enterprises (the Notice). The purpose of the Notice is to alleviate the difficulties of enterprises,...

As you might already know about the current outbreak of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), starting from the city of Wuhan in Hubei province and spreading all over China and even to an increasing number of countries worldwide, the virus and the related measures taken by the Chinese central and local governments to limit its spread raise a number of challenges for employers with operations in...

2013 will be remembered as a watershed year for trade secret protection in China. In January 2013, China’s Amended Civil Procedure Law came into force, giving courts discretion to issue interlocutory injunctions (1) whenever there is a risk that a party’s conduct will make judgment more difficult to enforce or (2) to prevent the petitioner from suffering “irreparable damage.” Previously,...

China Introduces New Health Care Sector Anti-Corruption Regulations As part of a concerted effort to tackle systemic commercial bribery in the country’s health care sector, China’s National Health and Family Planning Commission (“Commission”) recently introduced separate new regulations aimed at hospitals and physicians, as well as the medical product companies that supply them.

China has further opened up its value-added telecoms sector, starting with foreign-invested companies established in the new Shanghai Free Trade Zone (“SFTZ”). As reported in our January China Bulletin, the SFTZ offers foreign investors early market access to a range of sectors. All of these opportunities, together with a range of other liberalizing reforms, are set out in the State...

For foreign investors, one of the biggest China news stories last year was the official launch on September 29 of the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone (the "SFTZ"). The SFTZ has been heralded as a testing ground for freeing up key sectors of the Chinese economy from direct state control and allowing overseas companies greater access to China’s domestic markets. Backed by the State...