Research on Issues of China's Foreign Investment Law

Author: Lu Jiaoxing, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2001-12-01
Features: This book is the final research outcome of the "Research on New Issues and Countermeasures in Foreign Investment Legislation of China" project, a key research program under the Ministry of Education's Humanities and Social Sciences Research Plan for the "Ninth Five-Year Plan" period. After years of effort by the research team, the project was completed on schedule in early 2001, and the research findings are now being published. The book adopts a thematic research approach to study several new issues in China's foreign investment field, covering new trends in international investment and their impact on China's use of foreign capital, new developments in international investment and China's legal countermeasures toward foreign investment; challenges and countermeasures in foreign investment legislation faced by China after joining the WTO, involving contradictions between China's foreign investment laws and the provisions of the WTO's TRIMs Agreement and legislative countermeasures; challenges and countermeasures in service trade legislation after joining the WTO, involving the current status and existing problems of China's regulations on foreign direct investment in the service sector and the improvement of these regulations after joining the WTO. This book is not a general introductory work on the law of foreign-invested enterprises but rather an academic monograph that focuses on researching new issues in China's foreign investment law. The book is divided into eight chapters: Chapter 1: Problems and Legal Countermeasures in the Current Status of Foreign Investment in China; Chapter 2: Challenges and Countermeasures in China's Foreign Investment Law After Joining the WTO; Chapter 3: Challenges and Countermeasures in Service Trade Foreign Investment Legislation After Joining the WTO; Chapter 4: Research on the Legal Issues of National Treatment in Foreign Investment; Chapter 5: Research on the Issue of Foreign Investment and the Development of National Industries; Chapter 6: Research on the Legal Issues of Foreign Mergers and Acquisitions of Chinese Enterprises; Chapter 7: Research on the Issue of Expropriation Compensation in Foreign Investment; Chapter 8: Research on the Legal System and Practices of China's Use of Foreign Direct Investment.