On March 15, 2019, the National People’s Congress (NPC) of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) passed the Foreign Investment Law of the People’s Republic of China (the “Foreign Investment Law”). The Foreign Investment Law will come into effect on January 1, 2020. The Foreign Investment Law was formulated to further expand opening up…

After much anticipation, the Chinese legislature finally passed the Cybersecurity Law on 7 November 2016, and the CSL will come into legal effect on 1 June 2017. The CSL is the last of the trio of laws focusing on cybersecurity, after the National Security Law and the Anti-Terrorism Law.

China’s draft Cybersecurity Law sets out a framework for China’s cybersecurity regime, responding to the needs set out in the National Security Law to ensure “safe and controllable” systems and data security in critical infrastructure.