I. Framework and Content

Underlying principle: To fully implement relevant documents at the national level, draw upon advanced experience, highlight Beijing's unique features, step up efforts to explore further opportunities for innovation, target at market demand, and align with Beijing’s legislation concerning foreign investment and the Plan 2.0 for Greater Openness in the Service Sector, he Several Measures is a comprehensive policy for stabilizing foreign investment.

The first part introduces general requirements.

The second part focuses on more effective utilization of foreign investment. Specific measures include increasing efforts to attract foreign investment in key fields, leveraging the demonstration and leading role of the construction of the "Two Zones", expanding channels for foreign investment attraction, supporting the orderly relocation of enterprises, and refining the existing mechanisms for the development of foreign-funded projects.

The third part focuses on guaranteeing national treatment for foreign-funded enterprises. The specific measures are allowing their participation in government procurement activities within the boundaries of legislation, facilitating their greater involvement in the adoption of standards, and ensuring their equal access to supporting policies.

The fourth part focuses on enhancing protection for foreign investment. The specific measures are improving mechanisms that protect the rights and interests of foreign investors, optimizing intellectual property protection frameworks, and bolstering intellectual property right protection in critical sectors.

The fifth part focuses on enhancing facilitation for investment operation. The specific measures are further improving stay and residence policies for foreign employees of foreign-funded enterprises, enhancing convenience services for the daily life of foreign investors, piloting initiatives to explore security management systems for streamlined cross-border data flow, making cross-border capital flow easier for foreign-funded enterprises within the boundaries of legislation, streamlining in good coordination law enforcement and inspections concerning foreign investors, and optimizing the provision of services to foreign-funded enterprises.

The sixth part focuses on improving fiscal and taxation support. The specific measures are reinforcing financial assurances for foreign investment promotion, encouraging reinvestment in China by foreign-funded enterprises, implementing preferential tax policies related to foreign-funded enterprises, and supporting investment in sectors of priority to the state.

The seventh part focuses on enhancing the methods employed to promote foreign investment. The specific measures are refining foreign investment attraction work systems, actively conducting promotional activities, facilitating promotional efforts abroad, broadening foreign investment promotion channels, and optimizing the assessment of promotional activities.

The eighth part centers around strengthening organization and implementation.

II. Policy Features

First, the document covers a wider scope and has a greater depth. It involves the responsibilities of more than 30 departments, covers all aspects and ensures full implementation of the provisions and requirements outlined in the Opinions of the State Council on Further Optimizing the Foreign Investment Environment and Making Greater Efforts to Attract Foreign Investment, takes into account the realities of new areas for opening up such as the construction of the "Two Zones", and incorporates the latest policies on the protection of intellectual property rights, the facilitation of foreign exchange, and the recruitment of high-end talent.

Second, it is oriented towards demand. It focuses on major concerns and shared policy demand of foreign investors to further improve investment services, investment protection, and factor support, satisfy the needs of multinational companies for global operation and for expanding the emerging businesses, stabilize foreign investors’ expectations and bolster their confidence.

Third, the document aims to explore further opportunities for innovation. It proposes innovation strategies in line with the strengths of Beijing: taking the lead in dovetailing high-level international economic and trade rules, and move steadily forward to expand institutional opening up in regard to rules, regulations, administration and standards. The document also makes clear pilot tasks that Beijing is to undertake: exploring on a pilot basis more convenient security management systems for cross-border flow of data.

Fourth, it requires good coordination with other related regulations and policies.