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Investing and Doing Business in China
 

Business in China

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Encouraged business areas
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Foreign investors are encouraged to invest in the following areas:

• Transformation of traditional agriculture, development of modern agriculture and promotion of agricultural industrialization.
   

• Communications, energy, raw material, infrastructure and other fundamental industries.
   

• Electronic information, biological engineering, new materials, aeronautics, astronautics and other high-tech industries.
   

• Advanced technology to upgrade/update the machinery, light and textile industries.
   

• Resources, recycled resources, environmental protection and municipal construction.
   

• China's western regions.
   

• Exports of all permitted items.

Encouraged Investment in China Food and Agriculture Industries

• Improvement of low and medium yielding field crops.
   

• 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.
   

• Development and production of new breed varieties (excluding those gene-modified varieties) of fine quality, high- yielding crops such as sugar-yielding crops, fruit trees, flowers and plants, forage grass and related new techniques.
   

• Production of flowers and plants, and construction and operation of nursery base.
   

• Reusing in fields and comprehensive utilization of straws and stalks of crop, development and production of resources of organic fertilizers.
   

• Cultivation of traditional Chinese medicines (equity joint ventures or contractual joint ventures only).
   

• Planting of forest trees (including bamboo) and cultivation of fine strains of forest trees.
   

• Planting of caoutchoucs, sisals and coffees.
   

• Breeding of quality varieties of breeder animals, breeder birds and aquatic offspring (excluding precious quality varieties peculiar to China).
   

• Breeding of famous, special and fine aquatic products, as well as cage culture in deep winter.
   

• Construction and operation of ecological environment protection projects preventing and treating desertification and soil erosion such as planting trees and grasses, etc.