With a population of over 25 million, Shanghai, often referred to as the ‘Paris of the east’, is the economic centre of China.

EU-China collaboration for delivering better urban water infrastructure in China through integrated eco low carbon urban planning.

Besides laying out impressive economic reforms, last year’s Third Plenum Decision also underlined the importance of China’s environment and how the country’s ongoing economic development must not be to its detriment. While China’s economy was still growing in the double-digits, the damage this caused to…

There seems to be a broad consensus, even within the Chinese media, that China has not yet fully implemented ‘rule of law’.

Although the Chinese Anti-Monopoly Law (AML) has been in force for over six years, competition law enforcement has only considerably intensified in the past several months.

A recently-published report has revealed the extent to which foreign investment is restrained in China.

By examining the quality of a country’s institutions relative to its gross domestic product per capita, a clear pattern emerges.

Since the first quarter of 2014, the Shanghai Government has issued three circulars regarding changes to the industrial land supply rules.

The European Chamber and our members take ‘rule of law’ to be a fundamental requirement for a functioning market economy and a prerequisite for sustainable economic growth. Ever since it was introduced as an option in the European Chamber’s annual Business Confidence Survey, improved rule…

China’s huge consumer market is now attracting more and more foreign companies to take control of their distribution and manage their own retail sales. China has historically been an ideal destination for outsourcing manufacturing operations. Rogier van Bijnen and Maarten Roos of R&P China Lawyers discuss the…