subject: Development And Reform Commission, Ministry Of Commerce Promulgated The New "foreign Investment [print this page] Approved by the State Council, the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Commerce on October 31 issued Decree No. 57, published in full, "Foreign Investment Industrial Guidance Catalogue (2007 Amendment)" (hereinafter referred to as new "catalog"), 12, 2007 shall come into force on 1. November 30, 2004 the State Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Commerce issued the "Catalogue for the Guidance of Foreign Investment Industries (amended in 2004)" shall be repealed simultaneously.
New "directory" is to implement the scientific concept of development, build a socialist harmonious society, further deepening reform and expanding opening up new situation to the amendments is to implement the party's seventh Congress of the "innovative use of foreign capital, optimize the use of foreign investment structure, to play in the promotion of foreign investment innovation, industrial upgrading and coordinated regional development, the positive role of "requirements, and guide the direction of foreign investment in the important policy measures. On macroeconomic adjustment and control, and domestic development and opening up, optimize and upgrade industrial structure, improve the quality and level of foreign investment will play an active role. "Catalog" amendments mainly involve five aspects:
First, to expand the opening up, promote industrial upgrading. Manufacturing sector and further encourage foreign investment in China's high-tech industries, equipment manufacturing and new materials industries. Service area, "directory" in the full implementation of China's accession to the WTO commitments, actively and steadily open up wider to increase the "Service Outsourcing," "Modern logistics" and encouraged the contents and to reduce the original restrictions and prohibited items. Meanwhile, China has already mastered a number of mature technologies, with strong production capacity of traditional manufacturing is no longer encourage foreign investment, specifically, "Industrial Restructuring Guiding Catalog" restricted entry for the foreign-investment projects.
Second, conserve resources, protect the environment. Encourage foreign investment in the development of circular economy, clean production, renewable energy and eco-environmental protection, comprehensive utilization of resources to encourage foreign investment, "directory" added to the relevant entries encouraged. China's scarce or non-renewable mineral resources are no longer important to encourage foreign investment. Some of the important non-renewable mineral resources prospecting and exploitation of foreign investment is no longer allowed to restrict or prohibit the high resource consumption and high energy consumption, high pollution access to foreign capital projects.
Third is simply to adjust the policy to encourage export-oriented. In view of the trade surplus is too large, rapidly growing foreign exchange reserves and other new situation, not to continue the implementation of a simple policy to encourage export-oriented.
Fourth, promote balanced regional development. With the western development, central China, the revitalization of old industrial bases in Northeast China, the amendments to encourage foreign investment in industries not included in the directory only "limited to the central and western regions," the entry. Where is the need to encourage foreign investment in central and western regions and the northeast old industrial base competitive industries and specialized industry, and in the next revision, "the central and western regions Catalogue of Industries for Foreign Investment," co-ordinate considered for inclusion.
5 is to safeguard national economic security. Related to national economic security on the part of the strategic and sensitive industries, cautious open, adjust the relevant entries, and domestic development and opening up.
Encourage foreign investment in the new directory with the printing and packaging related products include:
3, manufacturing (8) Paper and Paper Products
1. By a single integration of forest and paper production lines and annual output of more than 300,000 tons of chemical wood pulp and single-scale production lines and over the scale of annual output 100,000 tons of chemical mechanical wood pulp and the simultaneous construction of high-grade paper and paperboard production ( joint ventures only)
(10) Chemical Materials and Chemical Products
10. Fine Chemicals: catalyst, additive, additives, new products, new technology, dye (pigment), commercialization of process technology, electronics, paper with high-tech chemical products, food additives, feed additives, leather chemicals ( except NN dimethylformamide), oil additives, surfactants, water treatment agent, adhesives, inorganic fiber, inorganic nano material production, deep processing of pigment coating treatment.
