Company: NOAH
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001410578-25-000852
Chunk: 122

Company: NOAH HOLDINGS LTD
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 4
Chunk 122
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negative list.” The Foreign Investment Law provides that foreign invested entities operating in the “restricted” industries will be required to conform to relevant investment conditions before they can operate in such industries and foreign invested entities shall not invest in any “prohibited” industry. The Foreign Investment Law also provides several protective rules and principles for foreign investors and their investments in mainland China, including, among others, that foreign investors’ funds can be freely transferred out and into the territory of mainland China, which run through the entire life cycle from the entry to the exit of foreign investment, and that a comprehensive system to guarantee fair competition among foreign-invested enterprises and domestic enterprises is to be established. If these protective rules and principles are so implemented via specific rules and regulations, it could mean that the restrictions on the injection of our company’s funds into our mainland China subsidiary and the distribution of the mainland China subsidiary’s profits and dividends to our company may further loosen. In addition, foreign investors and foreign-invested enterprises are subject to legal liabilities for failing to report their investment information in accordance with the requirements of the information reporting system to be further established. Furthermore, the Foreign Investment Law provides that foreign invested enterprises established according to the existing laws regulating foreign investment may maintain their structure and corporate governance within five years after the implementation of the Foreign Investment Law, which means that after the five-year grace period, foreign invested enterprises may be required to adjust their structure and corporate governance in accordance with the then current PRC Company Law and other laws and regulations governing the corporate governance. The five-year grace period has expired on December 31, 2024, after which all foreign invested enterprises shall adhere to the corporate governance structure as stipulated in the current PRC Company Law.
On December 26, 2019, the State Council promulgated the Implementation Rules to the Foreign Investment Law of the PRC, which became effective on January 1, 2020. The implementation rules further clarified that the state encourages and promotes foreign investment, protects the lawful rights and interests of foreign investors, regulates foreign investment administration, continues to optimize foreign investment environment, and advances a higher-level opening.
On December 30, 2019, the Ministry of Commerce and the State Administration for Market Regulation jointly promulgated the Measures for Information Reporting on Foreign Investment, which became effective on January 1, 2020. Pursuant to the Measures for Information Reporting on Foreign Investment, where a foreign investor carries out investment activities in mainland China directly or indirectly, the foreign investor or the foreign-invested enterprise