Catalogue of Encouraged Foreign Investment Industries (amended in 2004)


Updated: 2006-04-20 09:24

I. Farming, Forestry, Animal Husbandry and Fishery Industries

1. Improvement of low and medium yielding field

2. 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

3. 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

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

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

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

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

8. Planting of caoutchoucs, sisals and coffees

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

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

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

II. Mining and Quarrying Industries

*1. Venture prospecting and exploitation of petroleum, natural gas

*2. Exploitation of oil and gas deposits (fields) with low osmosis

*3. Development and application of new technologies that can increase the recovery factor of crude oil

*4. Development and application of new technologies for prospecting and exploitation of petroleum, such as geophysical prospecting, well drilling, well-logging and downhole operation, etc.

5. Prospecting and exploitation of coal and associated resources

6. Prospecting and exploitation of coal-bed gas

7. Exploration and beneficiation of gold mines with low quality or difficult to beneficiate (equity joint ventures or contractual joint ventures only)

8. Prospecting, exploitation, and beneficiation of iron ores and manganese ores

9. Prospecting and exploitation of copper ores, plumbum ores and zinc ores (equity joint ventures or contractual joint ventures only, wholly foreignowned enterprises are permitted in west regions)

10. Prospecting and mining of aluminum ores (equity joint ventures or contractual joint ventures only, wholly foreign-owned enterprises are permitted in west regions)

11. Mining and beneficiation of chemical mines including sulfur ores, phosphate ores, kalium ores, etc.

III. Manufacturing Industries

1. Food Processing Industry

(1) Storage and processing of food, vegetables, fruits, fowl and livestock products

(2) Aquatic products processing, seashell products cleansing and processing, and development of function food made from seaweed

(3) Development and production of drinks of fruits, vegetables, albumen, teas and coffees

(4) Development and production of fond for babies and agedness, as well as function food

(5) Production of dairy products

(6) Development and production of biology feeds and albumen feeds

2. Tobacco Processing Industry

(1) Production of secondary cellulose acetate and processing of tows

(2) Production of tobacco slices in the way of paper making

3. Textile Industry

(1) Production of special textiles for engineering use

(2) Weaving and dyeing as well as post dressing of high-grade loomage face fabric

4. Leather, Coat Products Industry

(1) Processing of wet blue skin of pig, cow and sheep with new technology

(2) Post ornament and processing of bather with new technology


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