Restricted
Foreign Investment Industries
( A )
I. Light Industry
1. Production of washing machines, refrigerators,
freezers
2. Production of synthetic emtrol, alcohol
ether and alcohol ether sulfate
3. Manufacture of compressors with a
shaft power of 2 kw or less which are specially used
for air-conditioners and refrigerators.
II. Textile Industry
1. Chemical fibre drawnwork of conventional
chipper
2. Production of viscose staple fibre
with an annual single thread output capacity of less
than 20, 000 tons
III . Petroleum, Petrochemical, Chemical
Industries
1. Barium salt production
2. Refinery with an output capacity
of less than 5 million tons a year
3. Cross-ply and old tire reconditions
( not including radial tire)
4. Production of sulphuric acid basic
titanium white
IV. Machinery Industry
1. Manufacture of equipment for producing
long dacron thread and short fiber
2. Manufacture of power generating units
of diesel engines
3. Production of all kinds of ordinary
abrasives (containing boule and silicon carbide), grindstone
with a diameter of less than 400 mm and man-made diamond
saw bit
4. Production of electric drill and
electric grinder
5. Ordinary carbon steel welding rod
6. Ordinary standard fasteners, small
and medium sized ordinary bearings
7. Ordinary lead acid accumulator
8. Containers
9. Elevators
10. Alufer hub
V. Electronics Industry
1. Satellite television receiver and
key parts
2. Exchange boards for the use of digital
programme-control bureau and for the use of private
branch exchange
VI. Medicine Industry
1. Production of chloramphenicol, lincomycin,
gentamicin, dihydrostreptomycin, amikacin, tetracycline
hydrochloride, oxytetracycline, acetyl spiramycin, medemycin,
kitasamycin, ilotycin, norfloxacinum and ofloxacin
2. Production of Analgin, aspirin, paracetamol,
Vitamin B1, Vitamin B2 and Vitamin B6
VII . Medical Apparatus and Instruments
1. Production of low or medium class
type-B ultrasonic displays
VIII. Transportation Service
1. Taxi (The purchase of cars is restricted
within China)
2. Gas station (restricted to projects
related to super highway)
( B )
I. Agriculture, Forestry, Animal Husbandry,
Fishery and Related Industries
1. Development and production of food,
cotton and oil-seed (the Chinese part will be the holding
party or play a leading role)
2. Processing and export of the logs
of precious varieties of trees (wholly foreign owned
enterprises are not allowed)
3. Inshore and continental-river fishing
(wholly foreign owned enterprises are not allowed)
4. Cultivation of traditional Chinese
medicines (wholly foreign owned enterprises are not
allowed)
II . Light Industry
1. Product of table salt, and salt for
industrial use
2. Production of non-alcoholic beverage
of foreign brand (including solid beverage)
3. Production of millet wine and famous
brands of spirits
4. Tobacco processing industries such
as cigarettes and filter tips
5. Processing and production of blue
wet hide of pig, cow and sheep
6. Production of natural spices
7. Processing of fat or oil
8. Paper and paper plate
III. Textile industry
1. Wool spinning, cotton spinning
2. Raw silk, grey silk fabric
3. Highly emulated chemical fibre and
special kinds of fibre such as aromatic synthetic fibre,
and carbon fibre (wholly foreign owned enterprises are
not allowed)
4.Fibre and polyester, acrylic fibre
and spandex which are not used as fibre (wholly foreign
owned enterprises are not allowed)
IV. Communication and Transportation,
Post and Telecommunications Industries
1. Construction and management of main
lines of railways (the Chinese party will be the holding
party or take a leading role)
2. Transportation by water (the Chinese
party will be the holding party and take a leading role)
3. Entry and exit automobile transportation
(wholly foreigner owned enterprises are not allowed)
4.Air freight (the Chinese party will
be the holding party or play a leading role)
5. General aviation (the Chinese party
will be the holding party or play a leading role)
V. Power Industry
1. Construction and management of conventional
coal-fired power plants whose single-machine capacity
is less than 300, 000 kw (with the exception of small
power grid, power plants in remote area and power plants
of low-quality coal and coal refuses)
VI. Non-ferrous Metal Industry (wholly
foreign owned enterprises are not allowed)
1. Copper and aluminum processing
2. Mining, dressing, smelting, and processing
of precious metals (gold, silver, platinum families)
3. Mining of non-ferrous metals such
as wolfram, tin and antimony
4. Exploration, mining, selection, smelting
and separation of rare-earth metal
VII. Petroleum, Petrochemical Industry
and Chemical Industry
1. Sensitive materials (cartridge, film,
PS plate, and photographic paper )
2. Mining and processing of baron, magnesium,
iron ores
3. Benzidine
4.Chemical industry products such as
ionic membrane caustic soda and organochlorine serial
products
5. Radial tire (the Chinese party will
be the holding party or play a leading role)
6. Synthetic fibre raw materials: precision
terephthalic acid, vinyl cyanide, caprolactam and nylon
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VIII. Mechanical Industry
1.Complete automobiles (including limousines,
trucks, passenger cars, and reequipped cars) and complete
motorcycles (the Chinese party will be the holding party
and take a leading role)
2. Engines of automobiles and motorcycles
(the Chinese party will be the holding party or take
a leading role)
3.Production of compressors of air conditioners
for cars, electron-controlled fuel-oil injecting systems,
electronic controlled brake and locking-prevention systems,
safety aerocysts and other electronic equipment, power
generating machines and aluminum radiating machines
4. Reconditioning and disassembling
refitting of old cars and motorcycles
5. Fire power equipment: (power unit,,
turbine, boiler, supplementary machine and controlling
equipment) manufacture of units of over 100, 000kw,
gas turbine combined cycle power equipment, cyclic fluidized
bed boiler, coal gasification combined cyclic technique
and equipment ( IGCC) , pressure boost fluidized bed
( PFBC), desulfurization and denitrification equipment
(wholly foreign owned enterprises are not allowed)
6. Hydroelectric equipment: manufacture
of hydropower generating units with a wheel diameter
of over 5 meters (including hydropower supplementary
machines and controlling units), large scale pump storage
groups of over 50,000kw, large scale tubular turbine
units of 10, 000 kw or over (wholly foreign owned enterprises
are not allowed)
7. Nuclear power group: manufacture
of nuclear power groups of 600, 000kw or over (wholly
foreign owned enterprises are not allowed)
8. Manufacture of power transmitting
and transforming equipment: large-scale transformers
of 200 kilovolts or over high-voltage switches, mutual
inductor, cable equipment (wholly foreign owned enterprises
are not allowed)
9. Manufacture of crawler dozers of
less than 320 horsepower, wheeled fork-lifts of less
than 3 cubic meters, and cranes of less than 50 tons
(wholly foreign owned enterprises are not allowed)
10. Manufacture of sheet continuous
caster
11. Duplicators and cameras
IX. Electronic Industry
1. Color TV (including projection television)
, color picture tube and glass envelope
2. Video cameras (including camera-recorder
in one unit)
3. Video recorders and magnetic heads,
magnetic drums and movements of video recorders
4. Analogue type mobile communications
systems (honey-comb, colony, wireless beeper call, wireless
telephone)
5. Receiving equipment of satellite
navigation and key parts (wholly foreign owned enterprises
are not allowed )
6. Manufacture of the system of VSAT
7. Manufacture of phototiming digital
serial communication systems of less than 2.5 GB/S and
microwave communication systems of 144MB/S and lower
X. Building Material Equipment and Other
Non-metal Product Industries Exploration, mining and
processing of diamond and other natural gems (wholly
foreign owned enterprises are not allowed)
XI . Medicine Industry
1. Traditional Chinese herb medicines,
Chinese patent drug semis and finished products (with
the exception of preparing technique of traditional
Chinese herb medicine in small pieces ready for decoction)
2. Precursor of narcotics: ephedrine,
pseudoephedrine, ergotinine, ergotamine, lysergic acid
and so on
3. Penicillin G
4. Production of addiction narcotic
and psychoactive drug (the Chinese party will be the
holding party or play a leading role)
5. Production of vaccinums that involve
high tech: vaccinum against AIDS, vaccinum against type-C
hepatitis, contraceptive vaccimum and so on (the Chinese
party will be the holding party or play a leading role)
6. Immunity vaccinums included in the
State' s plan, bacterins, antitoxins and anatoxin (BCG
vaccine, poliomyelitis, DPT vaccine, measles vaccine,
Type-B encephalitis, and epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis
vaccine
7. Production of Vitamin
8. Production of blood products
XII . Medical Apparatus and Instruments
Industry
1. Disposable injectors, transfusion
systems, blood transfusion systems and blood bags
2. Manufacture of large medical treatment
equipment such as CT, MRI and accelerators for medical
use
XIII. Shipping Industry (the Chinese
party will be the holding party or play a leading role)
1. Repairing, design and manufacture
of special ships, high performance ships and over 35,
000-ton ships
2. Design and manufacture of diesel
engines for ships, auxiliary machines, wireless communication,
navigation equipment and parts
XIV.Domestic and Foreign Trade, Tourism,
Real Estate and Service Industry (wholly foreign owned
enterprises are not allowed)
1. Domestic commerce (the Chinese party
will be the holding party or play a leading role)
2. Foreign trade (the Chinese party
will be the holding party or play a leading role)
3. Tourist agencies
4. Cooperative school-running (with
the exception of elementary education)
5. Medical establishments (the Chinese
party will be the holding party or play a leading role)
6. Accounting, audit and legal consultation
services and agent company
7. Agent services (boats and ships,
freight, futures, sales, advertisement, etc.)
8. High-ranking hotels, villas, high-class
office buildings, and international exhibition centers
9. Golf links
10. Development of pieces of land
11. Large scale tourist, cultural and
recreational parks and artificial landscapes
12. Construction and management of State-ranking
tourist areas
XV. Finance and Relevant Trades
1. Banks, finance companies and trust
investment companies
2. Insurance companies, insurance brokerages
and underwriting agent companies
3. Bond companies, investment banks,
merchant banks, fund management companies
4. Financial lease
5. Foreign exchange brokerages
6. Financial, insurance and foreign
exchange consultation
7.Production, processing, wholesale
and retail of gold, silver, gems, and jewelry
XVI. Miscellaneous
1. Printing, publishing and issuing
business (the Chinese party will be the holding party
or play a leading role)
2. Testing, appraising and attestation
business of import and export goods (wholly foreign
owned enterprises are not allowed)
3. Production, publications and issuing
of audio and video products and electronic publications
(the Chinese party will be the holding party or play
a leading role)
XVII. Other industries Restricted by
the State or International Treaties that China Has Concluded
or Taken Part in
