作者：肖马克 赵新华 洪家伟 金杜律师事务所公司证券部
自动驾驶汽车的发展已势不可挡，中国作为世界上最大的汽车市场和互联网技术的领导者，期待成为这场革命的先锋。
自动驾驶汽车的市场前景潜力巨大，这一点已不言而喻。2017年3月3日， 领先的汽车市场情报公司IHS Markit发布了最新的高级驾驶辅助系统（ADAS）应用和传感器报告[1]。该报告指出，全球ADAS市场预计将呈现爆发式增长，在2022年将超过3.02亿单元——这一数字将比2016年增长近200%。这种增长主要是由传感器技术的进步所推动，这些技术可以和现有技术结合起来提供更好的自动驾驶性能，包括现有车辆的后装ADAS解决方案。
传感技术的重要性也体现在英特尔以153亿美元收购Mobileye，这是迄今为止对以色列高科技公司金额最大的一次收购活动。[2]
Continue Reading 中国：ADAS到自动驾驶——征途已开“驶”
By Susan Ning, Wu Han, Chen Shengnan, Li Huihui King & Wood Mallesons’ Commercial & Regulatory group.
On May 2, 2017, the Cyberspace Administration of China (“CAC”) successively published on its official website the Measures for Security Review of Network Products and Services (Tentative) (the “Review Measures”), the Provisions on the Administration of Internet News Information Services (the “Administrative Provisions”) and the Procedural Regulations for Administrative Law Enforcement Concerning Internet Information Content Management (the “Procedural Regulations”). Following our earlier writings about the Review Measures and the Administrative Provisions, this article focuses on the main features and content of the Procedural Regulations.
Continue Reading Strong Basis for Regulatory Enforcement
By Xu Xiaodan King & Wood Mallesons’ Commercial & Regulatory group
Answers to Questions on Trial of Labor Disputes (IV) (“Answers (IV)”] was released by the Zhejiang High People’s Court and the Labor Disputes Arbitration Commission of Zhejiang Province on 30 December 2016. These clarify some common questions about judicial practice and existing rules. The following questions arise:
Pursuant to Answers (IV), if an employment contract omits statutory clauses (such as employment duration, job duties, remuneration, labour protection, working conditions) but there is a genuine intention for the parties (employer and employee) to establish an employment relationship, the contract is likely to be deemed valid. The employee’s claim for double his salary will not be supported. In this situation, the parties can negotiate any omissions in the contract. Failing this, relevant provisions from collective contracts (if any), laws and regulations can be applied.
Continue Reading Latest Judicial Guidance on Labor Disputes in Zhejiang Province
作者：徐晓丹 金杜律师事务所商务合规部
浙江省高级人民法院和浙江省劳动人事争议仲裁院于2016年12月30日下发《关于审理劳动争议案件若干问题的解答（四）》（以下简称《解答（四）》），针对劳动争议审判实践中的一些常见问题进行解答，以统一案件裁审尺度。解答（四）中特别值得关注的内容如下：
解答（四）认为，对于缺乏劳动合同期限、工作内容、劳动报酬、劳动保护、劳动条件等部分内容的劳动合同，如果能够确定合同双方当事人主体身份且能够认定该合同系双方的真实意思表示，一般可认定合同成立，劳动者主张二倍工资的，不予支持。对合同欠缺的内容，双方当事人可以重新协商，协商不成的可适用集体合同及国家有关规定。
Continue Reading 浙江省劳动争议最新审判口径
At the end of 2015, the Administrative Examination and Approval Reform Office of the State Council decided to integrate the Employment Permit for Foreigners (issued by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security) and the Foreign Expert Work Permit (issued by the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs) into the Foreigner’s Work Permit in China. This new policy has been implemented nationwide since 1 April 2017. Being more than just a simple combination of permits, the “Two-in-One License” reform realizes the unified management of foreigner’s employment in China. Below are highlights of the new policy.
Unification of the Certificate Name
Continue Reading New Policy on Foreigner’s Employment in China
By Mark Schaub, Atticus Zhao, David Hong King & Wood Mallesons’ Corporate & Securities group
The move towards self-driving cars is relentless and China as the world’s largest auto market and a leader in internet technologies wants to be at the cutting edge of this revolution.
That self-driving cars is a huge potential market seems clear. On March 3, 2017, IHS Markit, the leading automobile market intelligence firm, published its latest Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) Applications and Sensors Report[1]. This report noted that the global ADAS market is set to explode and surpass 302 million units annually in 2022 – which would be a nearly 200% increase over the 2016 numbers. This growth is mostly driven by advances in sensors technology that can be combined to provide better automated driving and includes aftermarket ADAS solutions for existing vehicles.
Continue Reading China: ADAS to Self-driving Cars – The Journey Starts
世界银行等国际金融机构对参与其资助项目的企业提出了很高的合规要求，并且有一套严格的审查及制裁程序。一旦被列入制裁黑名单，企业会遭受巨大的负面影响（参见《参与“一带一路”建设，严防海外合规风险》、《参与亚投行项目？不可不知的连带制裁与联合制裁》）但如果被制裁的企业积极应对，主动采取行动，仍有机会绝地逢生，免于列入黑名单。
Continue Reading 列入制裁黑名单，如何继续迈步“一带一路”？
By Susan Ning King & Wood Mallesons’ Commercial & Regulatory group
The reform and opening up in China has been a process of establishing and improving a modern market system. As this process deepens, “building a unified, open, orderly and competitive market” has become the goal of the market economy reform. The year 2017 is the second year of China’s 13th Five-year Plan, in which “market” and “competition” are the key points that cannot be overlooked. According to the Plan, establishment of a modern market system requires accelerating the development of a unified, open, orderly and competitive market, establishing mechanisms for ensuring fair competition, overcoming regional segmentation, breaking up industry monopolies, and removing market barriers in order to promote the free and orderly flow and equitable exchange of goods and factors of production [1]
The Plan obviously lays an unprecedented emphasis on the market’s fundamental role in resource allocation. Meanwhile, the government is taking or strengthening regulatory measures to control market disrupting risks, resorting to the law to ensure orderly operation of the market economy and to resolve externality problems of the market. Compliance issues regarding anti-corruption, employment, tax, anti-monopoly, and environmental protection are now under strict government supervision. Reinforcing the compliance system, therefore, by incorporating it into the “Now Normal” management mechanism is a path enterprises must take in their development.
Continue Reading Compliance Challenges for Businesses in the “New Normal”
作者：宁宣凤 金杜律师事务所商务合规部
中国改革开放的过程是一个建立和健全现代市场体系的过程，随着改革开放进入深水区，“建设统一开放、竞争有序的市场体系”成为市场经济体制改革的目标。2017年，中国迈入第十三个五年规划的第二年，“市场”和“竞争”是十三五规划中不可忽视的要点。十三五规划强调，健全现代市场体系，需要加快形成统一开放、竞争有序的市场体系，建立公平竞争保障机制，打破地域分割和行业垄断，着力清除市场壁垒，促进商品和要素自由有序流动、平等交换[1]。
由此可见，十三五规划前所未有的重视市场在资源配置中的基础作用，同时，政府也采取和加强各项监管措施严控扰乱市场的各项风险，以法律为手段保障市场经济的有序运行，力图解决市场外部性问题。反腐败、劳动、税务、反垄断、环保、海关等合规问题成为政府严格把关的重点。因此，强化企业合规体系，将合规经营纳入“新常态”的管理机制已经成为企业发展的一个必然新趋势。
Continue Reading 十三五“新常态”下企业营商的合规挑战
作者：熊进 金怡 胡海盼 金杜律师事务所公司证券部
背景：可再生能源的发展印度至今仍然是煤炭生产（全球第三）及消费（进口量全球第一）大国，煤炭消耗在本国能源的近60%，在能源结构及供需平衡上，面临着极大的挑战。
自1970起，印度逐渐意识到可再生能源的重要性，并通过MNRE（即Ministry of New and Renewable Energy，印度新能源和可再生能源部）大力推进可再生能源行业的发展。根据印度国家自定贡献目标(Intended Nationally Determined Contribution），印度将大力推动清洁能源的长期发展，并致力于在2030年前，将该国非化石燃料资源在发电组合中的比例提高至40%。
Continue Reading 一带一路：印度光伏产业投资的新契机
