Policy Focus
Corporate Social Credit System
The Corporate SCS is the Chinese government's comprehensive plan to use technology to monitor and guide market participants.
EU-China Investment Agreement
In January 2014, EU and China started the negotiations for a Bilateral Investment Agreement. This would be the EU’s first ever stand-alone investment agreement and would aim to streamline the current bilateral investment protection agreements...
Administrative Approval Reform in China
The ongoing Administrative Approval Reform in China is about decentralizing government approval authority for a number of foreign investment projects to local and provincial levels or a simple filing procedure as well as a progressive treatment of ma
Entry & Exit Regulations
The European Chamber has heard of cases of stricter enforcement of current visa-related regulations in the time leading up to the implementation of the new Administration Law on Entry and Exit which came into effect 1st July, 2013.
Anti-Monopoly Law
The European Chamber has for many years stated that effective implementation of China’s Anti-Monopoly Law (AML) would be beneficial for developing a healthy market economy in China
Value Added Tax
The VAT pilot program is a joint initiative between the Ministry of Finance (MoF) and the State Administration of Taxation (SAT) to replace Business Tax (BT) with VAT for select industries. The VAT pilot program launched in Shanghai on 1 January 2012