OECD Investment Policy Reviews: China 2008
Subtitle: Encouraging Responsible Business Conduct
By: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Series: OECD investment policy reviews; OECD Investment Policy Reviews
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]:
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9789264053717
Subjects: Finance and Investment
Description: This Investment Policy Review of China 2008 reviews Chinese government efforts to encourage responsible business conduct against the backdrop of recent regulatory changes and China's increasing outward investment. It assesses the extent to which China's legal and regulatory framework for investment has been improved since the 2006 Review, including new cross-border mergers and acquisitions regulations, the Enterprise Income Tax Law, the Property Rights Law, the Anti-Monopoly Law and the latest revision of the Catalogue for Guiding Foreign Investment Industries. It also evaluates recent improvements in China's FDI statistics. The 2008 Review provides a unique account of the motivations for and development of China's outward direct investment in recent years in light of government policy encouraging companies to "go global", focusing in particular on Chinese investment in Africa. It provides the first detailed and comprehensive analysis of the government's efforts to encourage responsible business conduct by enterprises in China and by Chinese enterprises operating abroad, highlighting in particular efforts to strengthen environmental protection and respect for core labour standards by enterprises. The Review concludes with an evaluation of enterprises' environmental conduct in China.
Table of contents: title: Executive Summary; title: Recent Developments in China's Investment Policies; title: China's FDI Statistics; title: China's Outward Direct Investment; title: Encouraging Responsible Business Conduct in China; title: Environmentally Responsible Corporate Conduct in China.