we anticipate change
New regulations on digital industries tighten market entry for foreign firms, and increase risks for those already present.
Proposed changes to the troubled housing fund system avoid fundamental issues, and would do little to boost housing markets or lower financial burdens on workers and firms.
Moves to expand credit for industrial transformation while maintaining macroeconomic stability signal an end to restrained monetary policy.
The 13th iteration of the world’s largest parallel planning process will be licked into final shape this week. China’s next 5-year plan will be tabled at the 2016 meeting of the National People’s Congress and unveiled by mid-March.
The policy patchwork to support redundant workers amid industrial transformation will do little to ease fears of a ‘wave of layoffs’ threatening stability.
State Council forbids making housing purchase a condition of granting migrants residence entitlements in small and medium-size cities, exposing tensions between central and local policy agendas.
A convergence of three tough measures—de-leveraging, de-stocking and de-capacitising—sees ‘3D’ economic policy the focus for 2016.
The domestic Charity Law is on track for a March release. An improved second draft opens up new space for domestic charities, but restrictions on other civil society groups will continue or increase.
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