Opening-up provides foreign investment with opportunities

The 2025 Action Plan for Stabilizing Foreign Investment outlines 20 specific measures across four key areas. These include expanding independent opening-up, enhancing investment promotion, improving the effectiveness of open platforms, and strengthening service and guarantee efforts. The plan seeks to further relax market access, optimize the business environment, and attract foreign investment.

Since 2024, China has fully lifted restrictions on foreign investment access in the manufacturing sector, implemented a nationwide negative list management system for cross-border trade in services and promoted the orderly expansion of opening-up in relevant sectors. Additionally, China has supported the participation of qualified foreign institutions in pilot business projects, actively aligned with international high-standard economic and trade rules and steadily advanced institutional opening-up.

The plan proposes to expand pilot opening-up in telecommunications, healthcare, education, and other fields, and to accelerate and deepen the comprehensive pilot efforts to broaden the opening-up of the service industry. A series of specific measures have also been introduced, such as encouraging long-term investments by high-quality foreign capital in China's listed companies, formulating policies to promote reinvestment by foreign-invested enterprises and expanding the scope of industries that encourage foreign investment. These measures not only provide robust policy support for foreign-invested enterprises, but also further boost their confidence in developing within China. Notably, the removal of restrictions on foreign-invested companies using domestic loans has significantly facilitated equity investments and the establishment of headquarters-type institutions in China.

The action plan requires that all policy measures be implemented by the end of this year. This underscores the Chinese government's confidence and determination to uphold high-level opening-up and vigorously attract foreign investment.

Investing in China means investing in the future and partnering with China means embracing opportunities. The immense potential and stable, healthy development of the Chinese economy will not only drive the steady recovery of the global economy but also provide foreign investors with vast cooperation opportunities and valuable development prospects.

ECONOMIC DAILY