According to the Provisional Measures on Management of the
Establishment and Changes of Foreign Invested Enterprises
("Provisional Measures 2016") which
entered into effect on 8 October 2016, the approval and examination
procedures regarding foreign-invested enterprises
("FIE") have generally been replaced by
much simpler record-filing procedures, if such FIEs are not listed
in a so-called Negative List. This means that since 8 October 2016,
the establishment of as well as the implementation of most
corporate changes with regard to FIEs, such as but not limited to
changes of registered capital, legal address, company name and
business scope as well as changes of the shareholding structure and
liquidation, are not subject to examination and approval by the
competent examination and approval authority, i.e. the competent
Bureau of Commerce ("BoC"), anymore but
to mere record-filing procedures, if such FIEs are not listed in
the so-called Negative List. According to
