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The article offers a look on the paper industry of China. As of 2009, China has become the largest producer of paper and board with 90 million tonnes per annum (tpa) worth of production from 78 million tpa in 2008, which is attributed its huge population and gross domestic product growth of between 8-10%. The Chinese government is supportive of investments such as the state-of-the-art modern paper mills invested by international companies. Another development is the installation of satellite wet-grinding technology ground calcium carbonate.

The article reports on the condition of the domestic bond market in China and the necessary steps that the government has to develop it. Selected foreign issuers have been allowed to sell bonds in the market and participate in securitisation deals. One of the most important events was the explosion of short term corporate paper issuance from May 2005, when regulators flung the market open with the short term financing bill, which removed some of the red tape that had deterred companies from issuing.

China's economy is facing challenges, and obtaining accurate data on the country is crucial for researchers. China Reality Research (CRR) aimed to provide independent research on China's economy but is no longer the only source, with other firms and analysts emerging. Foreign investors are losing faith in the Chinese market due to factors such as the COVID-19 pandemic, declining consumer confidence, and concerns about data accuracy and policy transparency. The Chinese government's control over data and information is hindering analysts' ability to provide reliable research, undermining its credibility and deterring foreign investors. The lack of reliable data and transparency in China's economy is causing uncertainty and mispricing in the market, making it difficult for investors to navigate. [Extracted from the article]

The effort to connect China's green bond market with that of the Western world took a step forward on Saturday, with the launch of a technical document designed to make the two markets' standards mutually intelligible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers tips from Gary J. Gao of Duan & Duan Law Firm, and Barker & McKenzie's Harvey Lau and Charles Chen, on forming a wholly foreign-owned enterprise (WFOE) in China. WFOE are required under Chinese laws to comply with foreign exchange regulations administered by the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (Safe). Foreign companies and investors are also encouraged to complete all paper works related to banking transactions in the country.

The article presents the Provisions for the Administration of Foreign-invested Advertising Enterprises, which were promulgated by the Chinese State Administration for Industry and Commerce, effective October 1, 2008. Foreign investment in the specialised business sector is encouraged and the process of establishing advertising entities is streamlined by the regulation. The definition of a foreign invested advertising enterprise is discussed.

State of Qatar made history by printing the largest ever deal from a CEEMEA borrower on Wednesday. The triple-tranche $9bn jumbo trade surpassed size expectations and proved that demand is abundant for the strong pipeline of Gulf issuers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the merger and acquisition (M&A) activities of China-based companies in Argentina. It is stated that the economic interest of China in Argentina is to open new markets and guarantee a supply of necessary inputs. Under the Argentine foreign investment law, foreign investors may invest in the country in any economic activity without the need for any type of prior approval and under conditions equal to those applicable to Argentine investors.

The article presents a description of project financing in China. Many of the early China project financings were power projects, concessions with government offtake or both. In the late nineties, the Chinese project finance market adopted a bifurcated financing approach. Under these structures, the proportionate amount of debt in respect of the foreign party's investment in the project would be arranged offshore and lent to the project company on a limited or non-recourse basis. Project financings in the late nineties were the result of banks following an influx of foreign investment. At the onset of the 21st century, Chinese project financing made a shift away from the contract ring-fencing model to a market risk structure.

Presents views of foreign investors on the advantages of Hong Kong, China as a business location in Asia. Advantages cited by Invest Hong Kong of being located in the Special Administrative Region; Quality of education and work force; State of rents and the real estate industry.

The article focuses on the fast growing bond market in China. Topics covered include the decision by the People's Bank of China (PBOC) to lift all restrictions on foreign institutional investor participation in February 2016, a recent Bank of China analysis which predicted a further increase in corporate bond defaults in the second half of 2016, and some factors that limit the participation on many foreign investors.

The release of derivatives rules in China will help make contracts between foreign banks and domestic counterparties valid and enforceable under PRC law. Li Fuan, deputy director of the legal policy unit of the China Banking Regulator's Commission, has overseen the drafting of derivatives regulations. The rules end restrictions on the way domestic financial institutions can conduct transactions, and clarify which parties are allowed to do them. INSET: Casting doubt.

Speakers at Fixed Income Leaders Summit in Hong Kong share views on the challenges surrounding the recent Bond Connect [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the increasing number of banks in China that were sold to foreign investors in September 2005. During the past year, around 9% of the performing banking sector of China has been sold to foreign investors for the amount of US$15.3 billion. Allegedly, 3% to 4% will either be sold in the coming months or has been promised as part of existing deals over the coming years to banks, including HSBC and Bank of America, estimated at roughly $5.5 billion. The alleged reason why Beijing is allowing foreign lenders into the sale of the century is because it needs capital, but more importantly, the banking know-how.

Presents the results of the 2004 Global Research Team survey conducted by the periodical "Institutional Investors." Efforts done by research teams to rehabilitate their global research work; Role of China in the interest of buy and sell sectors in global investing; Rank given by investors to the overall global research effort.

Focuses on the first public auction of distressed debt open to foreign investors in China. Overview of the nation's financial services industry; Incident that led to the auction; Number of local and foreign interested parties; Problems encountered by investors in the auction.

This article focuses on the growth of the toll road sector in China in 1999. Toll roads and other infrastructure development are expected to be one of the key planks of the current fiscal stimulus package crafted to revive the country's slumping economy. The government aims to ramp up the total length of expressways to 10,000 kilometers by the end of 2000, which is five times the length in 1995. Capital investment in roadways this year is reckoned at close to $24 billion, which is triple the amount spent in 1997. While much of that money will come from domestic bank loans, a large part would normally have been sourced from overseas. China brought in 27% of its highway investments in 1998 from foreign investors, in the form of both equity and bank loans. INSETS: Snarl-up for bond market plans;A fast-track sector.

The threat of PRC corporates defaulting on their offshore debt has Chinese regulators stepping up their oversight [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article points out that the insatiable demand from China and India has sent world commodity prices soaring. However, with anti-dumping measures hurting exports and high inflation, the Chinese government is busy building a self-sustaining marketplace at home. In response, Global banks are on the search for financing opportunities, but protectionist regulations and a lack of legal safeguards promise a thousand headaches for many investment banks. Still, not to be in China is worse for these banks.

The article discusses the deal established between the Chinese government and two foreign investment banks with regards to the bank's management of Chinese domestic securities firms. Goldman Sachs's transaction, Gao Hua, is an unusual and clever deal that has enabled the Wall Street giant to control the joint venture, albeit via a byzantine structure. Its deal comprises two separate entities: Beijing Gao Hua Securities Co. Ltd. and Goldman Sachs Gao Hua Securities. In September 2005, UBS announced that it was in discussions with the Beijing State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission to restructure the operations of Beijing Securities into a new securities company to be managed by UBS.

After decades of self-imposed isolation, Uzbekistan is embarking on a range of projects with the help of Chinese assistance — and finance — to slowly start to stitch a recently remote country back into the global economy [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Outbound investment soared last year. Several government initiatives - including the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank - mean 2015 could see even more activity [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

China's policy of opening up its onshore market while holding a tight grip on capital flows is unsustainable, according to two Chinese academics, who called for a more proactive policy from China in promoting renminbi internationalisation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

China's ability to lock in a $2bn tightly priced bond sale last week after a 13 year hiatus from the market comes as little surprise. But the price that China received, and the statements it made with the sale are worth talking about. This triumphant dollar bond return not only squeezed bond prices to new lows, but it also allowed China to prove that it doesn't need foreign investors -- it wants them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses how the city of Chengdu, China has been attracting foreign investors through its enhanced intellectual property (IP) system. Chengdu was one of the ten high-technology zones that were named IP demonstration parks. IP protection is one of the priorities of Chengdu. The city has attracted 8.59 billion dollars in foreign investment in 2012.

The article reports on the call by trade experts Alan Price and Nova Daly for the Steel Manufacturers Association to regulate Chinese state-owned foreign investment. They warned that the global competitiveness of the U.S. steel industry could be under threats if Chinese foreign investment is not regulated. They added that apart from national security threat, steel producing state-owned enterprises can have anti-competitive behavior.

Disclosure rules for foreign private issuers on the Shanghai Stock Exchange will be out soon. In the first of a two-part series on the changes, we highlight what to watch out for [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Chinese national security review system adds another layer of approvals to existing controls on foreign investment [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

If it buys too readily overseas, there will be a backlash from developed countries [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With foreign ownership of Chinese bonds still at very low levels, the decision to open China's interbank bond market (CIBM) could truly alter global investment strategies. But, at least for now, the devil will be in the details, with analysts saying that foreign ownership is unlikely to surge in the short term. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reveals that China's political leaders were concerned at a collapse in the value of mainland-listed equities in July 2015 and introduced a series of stringent new measures to support domestic stock markets. Topics covered include how the Chinese government's interventionist tactics undermined efforts to reform its financial system and restructure an unbalanced economy.

The article probes into the problems with the Chinese market indices. HSI Services, the market leader in the Hong Kong market, produces the Hang Seng Index (HSI), the benchmark for the Hong Stock Exchange. The HSI already includes Hong Kong-listed mainland-China securities, dubbed H shares if they are privatized enterprises or red chips if they are foreign-incorporated companies controlling mainland-China assets. HSI Services' China Enterprises Index, comprising solely of H shares, is no more representative: it includes three oil stocks that make up 45% of the index. Its other key mainland effort, the Hang Seng China Affiliated Index, which incorporates red chips but not H shares, includes two telecom stocks that make up 62% of the index. In an attempt to find a more representative index, HSI Services and others have launched a host of indices, each calculated differently, each offering different interpretations of the China market. Alongside the MSCI China Index, for example, sits MSCI Zong Hua, which incorporates China and Hong Kong but not Taiwan; MSCI Golden Dragon, which also claims to be a China index, includes Taiwan. FTSE/Xinhua Index, a joint venture index provider for mainland China, boasts a China 25, which includes mainland Chinese B shares (an illiquid series of stocks aimed at foreign investors) and some H shares and red chips, but no A shares (domestic shares from which foreign investors were until recently excluded and to which access will still be restricted). FXI also operates A share-only indices.

The article reports on developments pertaining to the steel industry in China as of July 2007. Topics discussed include the growth of Baotou Iron & Steel Co. as one of the country's producers of rail, the dominance of Shanghai Baosteel Group Corp. in the Chinese steel market, and the Chinese government's imposition of restrictions on foreign investment in the steel industry.

The article assesses the impact of the 2008 global financial crisis on China's economy. Topics discussed include the continued expansion of Chinese businesses, the increase in the number of foreign companies entering the Chinese market, and the completion of the Shanghai World Financial Center in 2010.

As South Korean companies grow their exports to China, global money managers are investing in them to gain exposure to this vast consumer market. Although it's highly regulated, South Korea offers foreign investors more transparency than other emerging markets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the increased number of foreign investment banks trying to form joint ventures in mainland China. According to the author, most foreign investment banks are trying to form joint ventures with local entities, mainly because of a desire to gain a financial foothold in the second largest economy in the world. He states that despite the eagerness of foreign banks to enter the secondary markets of the mainland, very few realize significant increases in investment returns, with the costs of the joint ventures often higher than profits.

The article looks at the possible economic impact of renminbi liberalisation on the qualified domestic institutional investor (QDII) scheme of the Chinese government. It is said that such currency liberalisation would further enhance offshore investments and benefit the local bond market of the country. The rising trading value of renminbi is also expected to enhance demand among Chinese insurers and encourage more offshore investors to do business in the country.

The author stresses the need for China and India to develop their domestic capital markets and allow in more foreign investors if they want their economies to reach their full potential. She notes that only 86 international investors have been granted the status to invest in the onshore capital markets in China as of February 2010, and collectively they are only permitted to invest a total of 16.67 million U.S. dollars. She cites that long-term bonds would provide an ideal means to help India meet the funding objective for its infrastructure investment.

This article discusses the move of the Chinese government to lift its embargo on global investment banks entering into joint ventures with local securities firms and so allow it to underwrite domestic capital markets offerings. The move of the Chinese government came following the 54% decline of the country's CSI 300 index in 2008. Credit Suisse celebrated the move of the Chinese government and it is expected that Credit Suisse is the first to benefit from this reopening of the door and has gained approval for a deal with Founder Securities, a mid-tier local broker. Morgan Stanley is in the middle of resolving its relationship with China International Capital Corp.

The article profiles Baotou Iron & Steel Group Co. Ltd., a steel producer in China. The company is a mid-ranking mill that was perhaps best known as one of the country's top producers of rail. In recent years it has grown rapidly, adding more than two million tons of crude steel output since 2005. The company stated early in 2007 that Mittal Steel has backed out its investment talks following its takeover of Arcelor SA.

The article focuses on the conditions of foreign investments in China as of July 2006. Foreign retail investors can now buy a managed fund that gives them access to China's A-share market: the stocks previously only open to mainland nationals and a handful of tightly regulated foreign institutions. JF Asset Management, part of JPMorgan, launched the JF China Pioneer A-Share Fund on June 19, 2006 for investors in Hong Kong, making it the first A-share fund to be authorized by Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission.

This article reports on various investment deals forged by foreign banks and investors in domestic Chinese banks as of October 2005. One of the latest investors is Singapore investment company Temasek Holdings, which has committed $6 billion of capital to two of China's largest state lenders in addition to the investment it already holds in the privately held China Minsheng Bank. With Temasek's investments and the $3 billion investment in Industrial & Commercial Bank of China by a consortium led by Goldman Sachs, Allianz and American Express, it appears that big investments in the key state owned banks are complete. For the other key investors, particularly Bank of America, Royal Bank of Scotland and Temasek, the investment is likely to be played out over a much longer period.

This article comments on foreigners investing in Chinese state-owned banks. Like the mariners of ancient Greece lured to their deaths by the beguiling song of the Sirens, international banks increasingly appear mesmerized by the call to invest in China's state-owned banking system. The latest international bank to answer the call is Bank of America, which announced it was parting with a total of $3 billion to purchase a 9 percent stake in China Construction Bank, China's second-largest lender. Indeed many have been gaily throwing their balance sheets around in an attempt to garner little more than investment banking fees. The latest bank ready to throw itself upon China's rocks appears to be UBS, which confirmed rumors it was in negotiations to purchase a stake in Bank of China, itself expected to list in 2006. It has no retail banking business outside Switzerland and it is dubious that a minority investment in a massive state-owned bank is going to do very much at all for the most valuable business of UBS, private banking. Hence, one bank that might have escaped the clutches of the Sino sirens, despite its own efforts is Citigroup.