By Wu Ye and Luo Yi King & Wood Mallesons’ Corporate & Securities group

On 30 July 2017, a beautiful sunny Sunday in midsummer, without expectation the Ministry of Commerce (“MOFCOM”) issued two documents relating to foreign investment in China[1]. This was only two months after MOFCOM released draft measures.[2]

The inclusion in the record-filing system of foreign mergers and acquisitions  not involving special access administrative measures (negative list) and related-party M&A signals that foreign investment in China has entered an era known as the “Pre-establishment National Treatment (PENT) and negative list”.
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