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CNIPA Releases Work Plan for Systematic Governance For Maliciously Registering Trademarks

On May 8 2023, the China National Intellectual Property Administration (“CNIPA”) released the Notification For Work Plan To Promote High-quality Development through Systematic Governance For Maliciously Registering Trademarks (2023-2025) on its official website. The Work Plan consists of 30 items from eight aspects, which clearly states that the competent government departments will promote another round […]

May 13, 2023

CAC to Release the draft of New Rules on AI-generated Content

On April 11, 2023, the Cyberspace Administration of China (“CAC”) released the Soliciting Public Opinions on the Measures for the Administration of Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (“Measures”) (Draft for Soliciting Opinions)”, and the deadline for feedback is May 10, 2023. The Measures contain total 21 articles and are applicable to the Artificial Intelligence Generated Content […]

April 26, 2023

Guidelines on Compliance of Internet Companies in Question and Cyber Legislation

On April 18, 2023, the Supreme People’s Procuratorate (“SPP”) released the Guidelines for Procuratorial Organs on Strengthening Law-based Governance of Cyberspace in the New Era (the “Guidelines”). The Guidelines have 21 articles, focusing on ideological security, network system and data security, digital economy, and protection of minors’ rights and interests. The Guidelines require to fully […]

April 20, 2023

Updates on the Visa and Entry Policies for Travelling to China

According to the notice issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China(“PRC”) on March 14, 2023, the PRC had made the adjustments on the visa and entry policies for foreigners travelling to China, which would take effect from March 15, 2023. The aforesaid adjustments include the following:

April 11, 2023

Q&As on Jurisdiction in Foreign-related Commercial Cases (I)

What are the types of cases where the jurisdiction of foreign courts cannot be agreed upon? According to the provisions of China’s Civil Procedure Law, cases under the exclusive jurisdiction of Mainland China’s courts cannot be subject to the jurisdiction of foreign courts by agreement. The types of cases include real estate disputes, disputes arising […]

April 3, 2023

Supporting Levy Policies on Income Tax Concessions for Small and Micro-profit Enterprises

On 27 March 2023, the Ministry of Finance and the State Taxation Administration released the preferential policies on income taxation for small and micro-profit enterprises and individual businesses, and the State Taxation Administration has simultaneously released the supporting levy and management policies as below: Announcement on the Implementation on the Issues of Administration and Collection […]

March 29, 2023

Requirements on Registering Domestic Production of Drugs Produced and Marketed Overseas

On 23 March 2023, the Center for Drug Evaluation, NMPA, released the exposure draft of the Requirements on Application Materials for Registering Domestic Production of Drugs Produced and Marketed Overseas (Chemicals) to solicit public opinions. The Requirements mainly clarify the materials that can be streamlined or waived, compared with the requirements on the application for the […]

March 27, 2023

National Standard on the Certification Requirements for Cross-border Transmission of Personal Information (Exposure Draft)

On March 16, 2023, the National Information Security Standardization Technical Committee (“NISSTC”) released a draft national standard, the Information Security Technology – Certification Requirements for Cross-border Transmission of Personal Information (Exposure Draft), to solicit public opinions until May 15, 2023. The standard is applicable to the certification of personal information protection conducted by certification organs […]

March 20, 2023

Basic Legal Due Diligence-before starting your business in or with China

Have you ever had similar problems? Some of our foreign clients who had business in or with China may end up finding that the companies with which they have had business is a very new company with very low capital or even is not able to perform the contracts as they in a bad situation, […]

February 26, 2023

Q&As Re Foreign-related Inheritance in Mainland China (VII)

Question 7: How to determine the effect of a will when the language of the signature on it is inconsistent with the testator’s previous habits? Answer: Some testators may be used to sign with his/her Chinese or English name or both names, but he/she just signed his/her name with the other language or only one […]

November 17, 2022

Q&As Re Foreign-related Inheritance in Mainland China （VI）

Question 6: How the Mainland courts determine the meaning of an English will when it is ambiguous in logical relations of sentences? Answer: Due to language differences, we may have different understandings of an English will, in particular the logical relations among sentences. Under these circumstances, the Mainland courts generally explore the real wishes of the testator under the laws of Mainland China.