system: You are a contract-analysis assistant performing a span-extraction task. You are given an excerpt from a commercial contract and the name of a clause type to locate within it.

Return the exact text of the requested clause, copied verbatim from the excerpt — identical wording and punctuation, with no paraphrasing, summarising, explanation, or added commentary.

The excerpt is one window of a much longer contract and often will not contain the requested clause. If the requested clause does not appear in this excerpt, respond with exactly: Not found.

Output only the extracted clause text, or the exact string `Not found.` — nothing else.

user: Contract excerpt:
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organisation or entity other than the Parties to this Contract or the Joint Venture Company Article 20 "Three Funds" means the Joint Venture Company's reserve fund, expansion fund and employee bonus and welfare fund as stipulated in the Joint Venture Regulations. Article 21 "United States Dollars" or "US$" means the lawful currency of the United States of America. Article 22 "Working Personnel" means all employees and staff of the Joint Venture Company other than the Management Personnel. CHAPTER 4 ESTABLISHMENT AND LEGAL FORM OF THE JOINT VENTURE COMPANY Article 23 The Parties hereby agree to establish the Joint Venture Company in accordance with the laws and regulations of the PRC. Article 24 Name of Joint Venture Company in Chinese characters: [**[VALENCE IN CHINESE] ********] Joint Venture Company in English: [FENGFAN - VALENCE BATTERY COMPANY, LTD.] Legal address of Joint Venture Company: [Baoding City High and New Technology Zone, Baoding City, Hebei Province, the People's Republic of China.] Article 25 The Joint Venture Company shall be an enterprise legal person under the laws of China. The activities of the Joint Venture Company shall be governed by the laws, decrees, rules and regulations of China, and its lawful rights and interests shall be protected by the laws, decrees, rules and regulations of China. Page 5 Article 26 The organization form of the Joint Venture Company is a limited liability company. The liability of each Party to the Joint Venture Company shall be limited to contributing the full amount of its share of the Joint Venture Company's registered capital. Unless otherwise provided pursuant to a written agreement signed by a Party and a creditor of the Joint Venture Company, creditors of the Joint Venture Company and other claimants against the Joint Venture Company shall have recourse only to the assets of the Joint Venture Company and shall not have rights to seek compensation, damages or other remedies from any of the Parties. Subject to the foregoing, the Parties shall share the Joint Venture Company's profits, and bear the losses and risks arising from their investments in the Joint Venture Company, in proportion to their respective shares of the Joint Venture Company's registered capital. CHAPTER 5 THE PURPOSE, SCOPE AND SCALE OF PRODUCTION AND BUSINESS Article 27 The purpose of the Joint Venture Company is to use advanced technology and scientific management techniques to produce and sell the Joint Venture Products, to improve the quality and increase the value and competitiveness of such products, to develop and introduce new products and to obtain satisfactory economic benefits for the Parties. Article 28 The Joint Venture Company's scope of business shall be the design, manufacture and sale of technologically advanced batteries, including but not limited to lithium iron magnesium phosphate batteries, lithium cobalt oxide batteries and lithium manganese oxide batteries. Article 29 The goal is to produce one hundred million (100,000,000) watt-hours per year with target annual sales of Sixty Million United States Dollars (US$60,000,000). The Board of Directors will determine the Joint Venture Company's actual production levels based on relevant market and operating conditions. CHAPTER 6 TOTAL AMOUNT OF INVESTMENT AND REGISTERED CAPITAL Article 30 The Joint Venture Company's total amount of investment shall be Twenty-Nine Million Nine Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (US$29,900,000). Page 6 Article 31 The Joint Venture Company's registered capital shall be Twenty-Nine Million Nine Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (US$29,900,000), including: Party A's contribution to the registered capital of the Joint Venture Company shall be Fourteen Million Six Hundred Fifty-One Thousand United States Dollars (US$14,651,000), representing a forty-nine percent (49%) share of the Joint Venture Company's registered capital. Party B's contribution to the registered capital of the Joint Venture Company shall be Fifteen Million Two Hundred Forty Nine Thousand United States Dollars (US$15,249,000), representing a fifty-one percent (51%) share of the Joint Venture Company's registered capital. Article 32 The Method of Investment Party A's total contribution (US$14,651,000) to the registered capital shall be invested as cash. US$7,000,000 of this contribution is used for the Joint Venture Company's initial purchase of foreign equipment from Party B and the remainder is used for purchase of foreign and domestic equipment, and land use rights and construction of workshops in China. (If the contribution is in RMB, it shall be converted using the median rate for buying and selling for foreign currency announced by the People's Bank of China on the date of investment). Party B's total contribution (US$15,249,000) to the registered capital shall be invested as follows: (1) use of technology in accordance
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Extract the exact clause related to "Effective Date" from the excerpt above.