Catalogue of Encouraged Foreign Investment Industries
I. Farming, Forestry, Animal Husbandry and Fishery Industries
1.Improvement of low and medium yielding field
2.Planting technology, without social effects of pollution, of vegetables (including edible fungus and melon-watermelon), fruits, teas and serial development and production of these products
3.Development and production of new breed varieties (excluding those yielding crops such as sugar-yielding crops, fruit trees, flowers and plants, forage grass and related new techniques
4. Production of flowers and plants, and construction and operation of nursery base
5. Reusing in fields and comprehensive utilization of straws and stalks of crop, development and production of resources of organic fertilizers
6. Cultivation of traditional Chinese medicines (equity joint ventures or contractual joint ventures only)
7. Planting of forest trees (including bamboo) and cultivation of fine strains of forest trees
8. Planting of caoutchoucs, sisals and coffees
9. Breeding of quality varieties of breeder animals, breeder birds and aquatic offspring (excluding precious quality varieties peculiar to China)
10. Breeding of famous, special and fine aquatic products, as well as cage culture in deep winter
11. Construction and operation of ecological environment protection projects preventing and treating desertification and soil erosion such as planting trees and grasses, etc.
II. Mining and Quarrying Industries
*1. Venture prospecting and exploitation of petroleum, natural gas
*2. Exploitation of oil and gas deposits (fields) with low osmosis *3. Development and application of new technologies that can increase the recovery factor of crude oil
*4. Development and application of new technologies for prospecting and exploitation of petroleum, such as geophysical prospecting, well drilling, well-logging and downhole operation, etc.
*5. Prospecting and exploitation of coal and associated resources
*6. Prospecting and exploitation of coal-bed gas
*7. Exploration and beneficiation of gold mines with low quality or difficult to beneficiate (equity joint ventures or contractual joint ventures only, wholly foreign-owned enterprises and permitted in west regions)
*8. Prospecting, exploitation, and beneficiation of iron ores and manganese ores
*9. Prospecting and exploitation of copper ores, plumbum ores and zinc ores (equity joint ventures or contractual joint ventures only, wholly foreign-owned enterprises are permitted in west regions)
*10. Prospecting and mining of aluminum ores (equity joint ventures or contractual joint ventures only, wholly foreign-owned enterprises are permitted in west regions)
*11. Mining and beneficiation of chemical mines including sulfur ores, phosphate ores, kalium ores, etc.
III. Manufacturing Industries
1. Food Processing Industry
1.1 Storage and processing of food, vegetables, fruits, fowl and livestock products
1.2 Aquatic products processing, seashell products cleansing and processing, and development of function food made from seaweed
1.3 Development and production of drinks of fruits, vegetables, albumen, teas and coffees.
1.4 Development and production of food for babies and agedness, as well as function food
1.5 Production of dairy products
1.6 Development and production of biology feeds and albumen feeds
2. Tobacco Processing Industry
2.1 Production of secondary cellulose acetate and processing of tows
2.2 Production of tobacco slices in the way of paper making
3. Textile Industry
3.1 Production of special textiles for engineering use
3.2 Weaving and dyeing as well as post dressing of high-grade loomage face fabric
4. Leather, Coat Products Industry
4.1 Processing of wet blue skin of pig, cow and sheep with new technology
4.2 Post ornament and processing of leather with new technology
5. Lumber Processing Industry and Bamboo, Bine, Palm, Grass Products Industry
5.1 Development and production of new technology and products for the comprehensive utilization of "sub-quality, small wood and fuel wood" and bamboo in the forest area
6. Paper Making and Paper Products Industry
6.1 Construction and operation of integrated engineering of raw material base with an annual production capacity of over 300 thousand tons of chemical wood pulp or an annual production capacity of over 100 thousand tons of chemical mechanical wood pulp (CTMP, BCTMP, APMP) (equity joint ventures or contractual joint ventures only)
6.2 Production of high-quality paper and cardboard (excluding news paper)
7. Petroleum Refining and Coking Industry
7. l Deep processing of needle coke and coal tar
7.2 Production of hard coke and dry coke quenching
7.3 Production of heavy traffic road asphalt
8. Chemical Raw Material and Products Manufacturing Industry
8.1 Production of alkene through catalyzing and cracking of heavy oil
8.2 Production of ethylene with an annual production capacity of 600 thousand tons or over (the Chinese partners shall hold relative majority of shares)
8.3 Comprehensive utilization of ethylene side-products such as C5 - C9
8.4 Mass production of corvic (in the way of ethylene)
8.5 Production of organochlorine serial chemical industrial products (excluding high-residual organochlorine products)
8.6 Comprehensive utilization of basic organic chemical industrial raw materials: the derivatives of benzene, methylbenzene, (para-, ortho-, or meta-) dimethylobenzene
8.7 Production of supporting raw materials for synthesized materials (bisphenol-A, 4.4' diphenylmethane, diiso-cyan ester, and vulcabond toluene)
8.8 Production of synthetic fibre raw materials: precision terephthalic acid, vinyl cyanide, caprolactam and nylon 66 salt
8.9 Production of synthetic rubber (liquid butadiene styrene rubber by butadiene method, butyl rubber, isoamyl rubber, butadiene neoprene rubber, butadiene rubber, acrylic rubber, chlorophydrin rubber)
8.10 Production of engineering plastics and plastic alloys
8.11 Fine chemistry industry: new products and technology for catalytic agent, auxiliary and pigment; processing technology for the commercialization of dye (pigment); production of high-tech chemicals for electronics and paper-making, food additives, feed additives, leather chemical products, oil-well auxiliaries, surface active agent, water treatment agent, adhesives, inorganic fibre, inorganic powder stuffing and equipment
8.12 Production of auxiliary agent, preparation agent, and dye-stuff for textile and chemical fibre ladder
8.13 Production of depurant of automobile tail gas, catalyzer and other assistant agents
8.14 Production of nature spices, synthetic spices and single ion spices
8.15 Production of high capability dope
8.16 Production of chloridized titanium white
8.17 Production of chloroflorocarbon substitution
8.18 Production of mass coal chemical industrial products
8.19 Development and production of new technology and products for the forestry chemicals
8.20 Production of ion film for caustic soda
8.21 Production of biologic fertilizers, high-density fertilizers (potash fertilizer, phosphate fertilizer) and compound fertilizers
8.22 Development and production of new varieties of effective, low poison and low residual agriculture chemicals and pesticides
8.23 Development and production of biology agriculture chemicals and pesticides
8.24 Development and production of inorganic, organic and biologic films for environment protection
8.25 Comprehensive utilization and disposure of exhaust gas, discharge liquid, waste residue
9. Medicine Industry
9.1 Production of material medicines under patent and administrative protection in our country or chemical material medicines which we have to import
9.2 Vitamins: production of niacin
9.3 Amino acid: production of serine, tryptophan, histidine, etc.
9.4 Production of analgesic-antipyretic medicines with new technique and new equipment
9.5 Production of new variety of anticarcinogen medicines as well as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular medicines
9.6 Production of new, effective and economical contraceptive medicines and devices
9.7 Production of new variety of medicines which are produced by means of biological engineering technology
9.8 Production of vaccine through genic engineering technology (vaccine against AIDS, vaccine against type-C hepatitis, contraceptive vaccine, etc.)
9.9 Development and production of medicines made from allopelagics
9.10 Production of diagnostic reagent for AIDS and radioimmunity diseases
9.11 Medicines and pharmaceutics: production of new products and new dosage forms adopting new techniques such as slow release, control release, target preparation and absorbed through skins
9.12 Development and applications of new variety of adjuvant medicines
9.13 Processing and production of traditional Chinese herb medicines, products which distill from traditional Chinese herb medicines and Chinese patent medicines (excluding preparing technique of traditional Chinese medicines in small pieces ready for decoction)
9.14 Production of biological medical materials and products
9.15 Production of antibiotic material medicines used for animals (including antibiotics and chemical synthesis medicines)
9.16 Development and production of new products and new dosage forms of antibiotic medical, anthelmintic, insecticide, anti-coccidiosis medicines used for animals
10. Chemical Fibre Manufacturing Industry
10.1 Production of differential chemical fibre and high, new technological fibre such as aromatic synthetic fibre, amino synthetic fibre and carbon fibre
10.2 Production of chemical fibre of environmental protection variety such as direct viscose and asepsis spinning, etc.
10.3 Production of polyester used for fibre and non-fibre with a daily production capacity of 400 tons or over
11. Plastic Products industry
11.1 Production of polyimide film which can keep fresh
11.2 Development and production of new products and new technologies for agricultural films (photolysis film, multi-functional film and the raw materials, etc.)
11.3 Reutilization and counteraction of waste and old plastic
12. Non-metal Mineral Products Processing Industry
12.1 Production of fine-quality floating glass with a daily melting capacity of 500 tons or over (only in mid-west region of China)
12.2 Production of new type dry process cement of clinker with a daily output capacity of 2,000 tons or over (only in mid-west region of China)
12.3 Production of glass fibre (product line with technology of wire drawing in tank furnace) and glass fibre reinforced plastic products with an annual capacity of 10,000 tons or more
12.4 Production of high level sanitation porcelain with an annual production of 500,000 pieces or over
12.5 Standardization refine of ceramic material and production of high-level decorative materials used for ceramics
12.6 Production of high-level refractory material used in furnaces for glass, ceramics and glass fibre
12.7 Production of inorganic, non-metal materials and products (artificial crystal, high-capability complex materials, special kind of glass, special kind of ceramics, special kind of airproof materials and special kinds of cementation materials)
12.8 Production of new type of building materials (light-weight high-intensity and multi-function materials for wall, high-level environment protecting decorating and finishing materials, high quality water-proof and airproof materials, and effective thermal insulation materials)
12.9 Deep processing of non-metal mineral products (Super-thin comminution, high level pure, fine production, modification)
13. Ferrous Metallurgical Smelting and Rolling Processing Industry
13.1 Production of broad and thick armor plate
13.2 Production of aluminium-zincum alloy plates and clad plates which are zincification and corrosion proof
13.3 Production of direct and fusion reduced iron
13.4 Processing of steel scrap
14. Non-Ferrous Metallurgical Smelting and Rolling Processing Industry
14.1 Production of alumina with an annual production of 300,000 tons or more
14.2 Smelting of gold mines with low quality or difficult to beneficiate (equity joint ventures or contractual joint ventures only, wholly foreign-owned enterprises are permitted in west regions)
14.3 Production of hard alloy, tin compound and antimony compound
14.4 Production of non-ferrous composite materials, new type of alloy materials
14.5 Utilization of rare-earth
15. Metal Products Industry
15.1 Design and manufacturing of non-metal products molds
15.2 Design and manufacturing of car and motorcycle molds (including plunger die, injection mold, moldingdie, etc.) and chucking appliances (chucking appliances for welding, inspection jig, etc.)
15.3 Development and production of high-grade hardware for construction, hot-water heating equipment and hardware parts
16. General Machine-building Industry
16.1 Manufacturing of numerically controlled machine tools, digital control system and servomechanism installations which exceed triaxiality linkage
16.2 Manufacturing of high performance welding robot and effective welding and assembling production equipment
16.3 Production of high temperature resistant and insulation material (with F, H insulation class), as well as insulation shaped parts
16.4 Production with techniques of proportional, servo-hydraulic pressure, low-power pneumatic control valve and stuffing static seal
16.5 Production of precision plunger dies, precision cavity molds and standard components of molds
16.6 Manufacturing of precision bearings and all kinds of bearings used specially for principal machines
16.7 Manufacturing of casting and forging workblanks for cars and motorcycles
17. Special Equipment Manufacturing
17.1 Development and manufacturing of new technology and equipment for the storage, preservation, classifying, packing, drying, transporting and processing of food, cotton, oil, vegetables, fruits, flowers, pasture plants, meat and aqua-products
17.2 Manufacturing of facility agriculture equipment
17.3 Manufacturing of new technical agriculture and forestry equipment
17.4 Design and manufacturing of engines for tractors, combine harvesters, etc.
17.5 Manufacturing of equipment for reusing in fields and comprehensive utilization of straws and stalks of crop
17.6 Manufacturing of equipment for comprehensive utilization of waste agriculture products and waste fowl and livestock products which are bred in scale
17.7 Manufacturing of water-saving irrigation equipment with new technique
17.8 Manufacturing of earthwork for wet land and desilting machines
17.9 Technology of hydrophily ecological system for protecting environment and equipment manufacturing
17.10 Manufacturing of equipment for scheduling system which is used in long-distance transmitting water engineering
17.11 Manufacturing of special machines and equipment for flood prevention and emergency rescue
17.12 Manufacturing of key equipment in food industry such as high-speed asepsis canning equipment and brander equipment, etc.
17.13 Production technology and key equipment manufacturing of aminophenol, zymin, food additive
17.14 Manufacturing of complete set equipment with an hourly feed processing capacity of 10 tons or more and key spare parts
17.15 Manufacturing of multi-color offset press for web and folio of paper or larger size
17.16 Manufacturing of equipment with new technique for post ornament and processing of leather
17.17 Manufacturing of high-tech involved special industrial sewing machines
17.18 Manufacturing of complete set of equipment of new type of knitting machines, new type of paper (including pulp) making machines
17.19 Design and manufacturing of new type of mechanical equipment for highways and pons
17.20 Manufacturing of equipment for highways and bridges maintenance, automatic detection
17.21 Manufacturing of equipment for operation supervisory control, ventilation, disaster prevention and rescue system of highway and tunnels
17.22 Design and manufacturing of large equipment for railway construction and maintenance
17.23 Manufacturing of equipment for garden machines and tools with new technique
17.24 Manufacturing of special equipment for cities sanitation and environment work
17.25 Manufacturing of machines for road milling and overhauling
17.26 Manufacturing of tunneling diggers, equipment of covered digging for city metro
17.27 Manufacturing of city sewage-disposal equipment with capacity of 80,000 tons/day or more, industrial sewage film treatment equipment, up-flow anaerobic fluidized bed equipment, and other biological sewage disposal equipment, recycling equipment for waste plastics, desulphurization and denitration equipment for industrial boiler, large high-temperature resistant, acid resistant bag dust remover, incinerating equipment for rubbish treatment
17.28 Manufacturing of turbine compressors and combined communicators of the complete set equipment with an annual production capacity of 300,000 tons or over of synthetic ammonia, 480,000 tons or over of urea, 450,000 tons or over ethylene
17.29 Technique for desulfurization of thermal power station and equipment manufacturing
17.30 Manufacturing of sheet conticasters
17.31 Deep processing technique and equipment manufacturing of plate glass
17.32 Manufacturing of equipment for downhole trackless mining, loading and transporting, mechanical power-driven dump trucks for mining of 100 tons or over, mobile crushers, 3,000 m3/h or over bucket excavator, 5 m3 or larger mining loader, full-section tunneling machines
17.33 Design and manufacturing of new instruments and equipment for prospecting and exploitation of petroleum
17.34 Manufacturing of cleaning equipment for electromechanical wells and production of medical
17.35 Manufacturing of electronic endoscopes
17.36 Manufacturing of medical X-ray machines set with high-frequency technique, direct digital imagery processing technique and low radiation (80kW or over)
17.37 Manufacturing of equipment for high magnetic field intensity and superconduct (MRI)
17.38 Manufacturing of machines for collecting blood plasm only
17.39 Manufacturing of equipment for auto elisa immuno system (including the functions of application of sample, elisa photo meter, wash plate, incubation, data post treatment, etc.)
17.40 New techniques of quality control of medicine products and new equipment manufacturing
17.41 New analytical techniques and extraction technologies, and equipment development and manufacturing for the effective pans of traditional Chinese medicines
17.42 Producing and manufacturing of new packing materials, new containers for medicine, and advanced medicine producing equipment
18. Communication and Transportation Equipment Industries
*18.1 Manufacture of complete automobiles and complete motorcycles
18.2 Manufacture of engines for automobiles and motorcycles
18.3 Manufacture of key spare parts for automobiles: complete brakes, complete driving rods, gearboxes, steering knuckles, fuel pumps of diesel engine, filters (3 filtering), even speed cardan joints, shock absorber, compound meters, car fastener
18.4 Production of electron-controlled fuel-oil injecting systems, electronic controlled brake and locking-prevention systems, safety aerocysts and other electronic equipment
18.5 Manufacture of key spare parts for motorcycles: carburetors, magnetors, starting motors, disc brakes
18.6 Manufacture of vehicles for special-purpose in petroleum industry: vehicles for desens, etc.
18.7 Technology and equipment for railway transportation: design and production of locomotives and main parts, design and production of equipment for railways and bridges, related technology and equipment production for rapid transit railway, production of equipment for communicational signals and transportation safety monitoring, production of electric railway equipment and instrument
18.8 Equipment for urban rapid transit track transportation: design and manufacture of set of powered car and main parts for metro, city light rail
18.9 Design and manufacture of civil planes (Chinese partner shall hold the majority of shares)
18.10 Production of spares parts for civil planes
18.11 Design and manufacture of civil helicopters (Chinese partner shall hold the majority of shares)
18.12 Design and manufacture of aeroplane engines (Chinese partner shall hold the majority of shares)
18.13 Design and manufacture of civil air-borne equipment (Chinese partner shall hold the majority of shares)
18.14 Manufacture of light gas-turbine engine
18.15 Design and manufacture of crankshafts of low-speed diesel engine for vessel
18.16 Repairing, design and manufacture of special vessels, high-performance vessels (the Chinese party shall hold the relative majority of shares)
18.17 Design and manufacture of the equipment and accessories of high-speed diesel engines, auxiliary engines. radio communication and navigation for vessels (the Chinese party should hold relative majority shares)
18.18 Manufacture of fishing boats and yachts made of glass fibre reinforced plastic
19. Electric Machinery and Equipment Industries
19.1 Thermal power plant equipment: manufacture of super critical units of 600,000kW or over, large gas-turbine, gas-steam combined cycle power equipment, coal gasfication combine, cyclic (IGCC) technique and equipment, pressure boost fluidized bed (PFBC), large air-cooling power units of 600,OOOkW or over (equity joint ventures or contractual joint ventures only)
19.2 Hydropower plant equipment: manufacture of large pump-storage power units of 150,000kW and over, large tubular turbine units of 150,000kW or over (equity joint ventures or contractual joint ventures only)
19.3 Nuclear-power plant equipment: manufacture of power units of 600,000kW or over (equity joint ventures or contractual joint ventures only)
19.4 Power transmitting and transforming equipment: manufacture of super high-voltage DC power transmitting and transforming equipment of 500 kilovolts or over (equity Joint ventures or contractual joint ventures only)
20. Electronic and Telecommunications Industries
20.1 Manufacture of digital television, digital video camera, digital record player, digital sound-playing equipment
20.2 Manufacture of new type plate displays, medium and high resolution color kinescope and glass shielding
20.3 Manufacture of digital audio and visual coding or decoding equipment, digital broadcasting TV studio equipment, digital cable TV system equipment, digital audio broadcast transmission equipment
20.4 Design of integrated circuit and production of large scale integrated circuit with a line width of 0.35 micron or smaller
20.5 Manufacture of medium- and large-sized computers, portable microcomputers, high-grade server
20.6 Development and manufacture of drivers of high capacity compact disk and disk and related parts
20.7 Manufacture of 3-dimension CAD, CAT, CAM, CAE and other computer application system
20.8 Development and manufacture of software
20.9 Development and production of materials specific for semi-conductor and components
20.10 Manufacture of electronic equipment, testing equipment, tools and moulds
20.11 Manufacture of new type electronic components and parts (slice components, sensitive components, sensors, frequency monitoring and selecting components, hybrid integrated circuit, electrical and electronic components, photoelectric components, new type components for machinery and electronics)
20.12 Manufacture of hi-tech green batteries: non-mercury alkali-manganese batteries powered nickel-hydrogen batteries, lithium-ion batteries, high-capacity wholly sealed maintenance-proof lead-acid accumulators, fuel batteries, pillar-shaped zinc-air batteries
20.13 Development and manufacture of key components for high-density digital compact disk driver
20.14 Manufacture of recordable compact disk (CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-ARM)
20.15 Design and manufacture of civil satellites (Chinese partner shall hold the majority of shares)
20.16 Manufacture of civil satellites effective payload (Chinese partner shall hold the majority of shares)
20.l7 Manufacture of spare parts for civil satellites
20.18 Design and manufacture of civil carrier rockets (Chinese partner shall hold the majority of shares)
20.19 Manufacture of telecommunication system equipment for satellites
20.20 Manufacture of receiving equipment of satellite navigation and key components (equity joint ventures or contractual joint ventures only)
20.21 Manufacture of optical fibre preformed
20.22 Manufacture of serial transmission equipment of digital microwave synchronization of 622 MB/S
20.23 Manufacture of serial transmission equipment of phototiming synchronization of 10 GB/S
20.24 Manufacture of equipment for cut-in communication network with broad bond
20.25 Manufacture of optical cross-linking equipment (OXC)
20.26 Manufacture of ATM and IP data communication system
20.27 Manufacture of mobile communication systems(GSM, CDMA, DCS1800, PHS, DECT, IMT2000): mobile telephone, base station, switching equipment and digital colonization system equipment
20.28 Development and manufacture of high-end router network switchboard of gigabit per second or over
20.29 Manufacture of equipment for air traffic control system(equity joint ventures or contractual joint ventures only)
21. Machinery Industries for Instrument and Meter, Culture and Office
21.1 Development and production of digital cameras and key components
21.2 Development and manufacture of precision on-line measuring instrument
21.3 Manufacture of new technical equipment for safe production and environment protection detecting instrument
21.4 Manufacture of new-tech equipment of water quality and fume on-line detecting instrument
21.5 Manufacture of instrument and equipment for hydrological data collecting, processing, transmitting and flood warning
21.6 Production of new type of meters spare pans and materials (mainly new switches and function materials for meters such as intelligent sensors, socket connector, flexible circuit board, photoelectric switches and proximity switches.)
21.7 Manufacture of new type printing devices (laser printers, ink-jet printers)
21.8 Maintenance of precision instrument and equipment, post-sale services
22. Other Manufacture Industries
22.l Development and utilization of clean-coal technical product (coal gasification, coal liquefaction, water-coal, industrial lump-coal)
22.2 Coal ore dressing by washing and comprehensive utilization of powered coal (including desulphurized plaster). coal gangue
IV. Production and Supply of Power, Gas and Water
1. Construction and management of thermal-power plants with a single unit installed capacity of 300,000kW or above
2. Construction and management of power plants with the technology of clean coal burning
3. Construction and management of heat power plants
4. Construction and management of power plants with natural gas
5. Construction and management of hydropower stations with the main purpose of power generating
6. Construction and management of nuclear-power plants (Chinese partner shall hold the majority of shares)
7. Construction and management of new energy power plants (solar energy, wind energy, magnetic energy, geothermal energy, tide energy and biological mass energy, etc.)
8. Construction and management of urba
n water plants
V. Water Resources Management Industry
1. Construction and management of key water control projects for comprehensive utilization (the Chinese party shall hold the relative majority of shares)
VI. Communication and Transportation, Storage, Post and Telecommunication Services
1. Construction and management of grid of national trunk railways (Chinese partner shall hold the majority of shares)
2. Construction and management of feeder railways, local railways and related bridges, tunnels and ferry facilities (equity joint ventures or contractual joint ventures only)
3. Construction and management of highways, independent bridges and tunnels
4. Construction and management of public dock facilities of ports
5. Construction and management of civil airports (the Chinese party shall hold the relative majority of shares)
6. Air transportation companies (Chinese partner shall hold the majority of shares)
7. General aviation companies for agriculture, forest and fishery (equity joint ventures or contractual joint ventures only)
*8. International liner and tramp maritime transportation business
*9. International containers inter-model transportation
*10. Road freight transportation companies
11. Construction and management of oil (gas) pipelines, oil (gas) depots and petroleum wharf
12. Construction and management of the facilities of coal delivery pipelines
13. Construction and management of storage facilities relating to transportation services
VII. Wholesale and Retail Trade Industry
*1. Wholesale, retail and logistic distribution of general goods
VIII. Real Estate Industry
1. Development and construction of ordinary residential houses
IX. Social Service Industry
1. Public Facility Service Industries
1.1 Construction and management of urban access-controlled roads
1.2 Construction and management of metro and city light rail (Chinese partner shall hold the majority of shares)
1.3 Construction and management of treatment plants for sewage, garbage, the dangerous wastes (incineration and landfill), and the facilities of environment pollution treatment
2. Information, Consultation Service Industries
2.1 Information consulting agencies of international economy, science and technology, environmental protection
*2.2 Accounting and auditing
X. Public Health, Sports and Social welfare Industries
1. Service agencies for the elderly and the handicapped
XI. Education, Culture and Arts, Broadcasting, Film and TV Industries
1. Higher education institutes (equity joint ventures or 　contractual joint ventures only)
XII. Scientific Research and Poly-technical Services Industries
1. Biological engineering technique and bio-medical engineering technique
2. Isotope, irradiation and laser technique
3. Ocean and ocean energy development technology
4. Seawater desalting and seawater utilization technology
5. Oceanic monitoring technology
6. Development of energy-saving technology
7. Technology for recycling and comprehensive utilization of resources
8.Technology for environment pollution treatment and monitoring
9.Technology for preventing from desertification and desert improvement
10. Application technique of civil satellite
11. Research and development centers
12. Centers for hi-tech, new products developing, and incubation of enterprises
XIII. Permitted foreign invested projects whose products are to be wholly exported directly
Note:
1, The new Catalogue for the Guidance of Foreign Investment Industries and its Appendix have been approved by the State Council on March 4, 2002, promulgated on March 11, 2002 and was effective as of April l, 2002.
2, The items marked " *" are related to the commitment of China's accession to WTO. Please see the Appendix for details.
3, All the English information is provided for reference only, please check the Chinese version.
Appendix
1. Prospecting and exploitation of oil and natural gas: In cooperation with Chinese partner only
2. Exploitation of oil deposits (fields) with low osmosis: In cooperation with Chinese partner only.
3. Development and application of new technologies that can increase recovery factor of crude oil: In cooperation with Chinese partner only.
4. Development and application of new technologies for prospecting and exploitation of petroleum, such as geophysical prospecting, well-drilling, well-logging and downhole operation, etc.: In cooperation with Chinese partner only.
5. Manufacturing of automobile and motorcycle: The proportion of foreign investments shall not exceed 50 percent
6. International liner and tramp maritime transportation business: The proportion of foreign investments shall not exceed 49 percent
7. International container multi-modal transportation: The proportion of foreign investments shall not exceed 50 percent. Foreign majority ownership will be permitted no later than Dec.11, 2002. Wholly foreign ownership will be permitted no later than Dec. 11, 2005.
8. Road freight transportation companies: Foreign majority ownership will be permitted no later than Dec.11, 2002. Wholly foreign ownership will be permitted no later than Dec.11, 2004.
9. Wholesale, retail and logistic distribution of general goods' As described in No. 5 of Notes for Catalogue of Restricted Industries of the Appendix.
10 Accounting and auditing: In cooperation with Chinese partner and in the form of partnership only.
(Source: China Association of Development Zones)
