Catalogue of Priority Industries for Foreign Investment in the Central-Western Region (2013 Revision)(“2013 Catalogue”)

2013 Catalogue will be taken into force on 10th June, 2013. Compared with Catalogue of Priority Industries for Foreign Investment in the Central-Western Region (2008 Revision), 2013 Catalogue has new features as following:

To expand the scope of industries under the encouraged category. 2013 Catalogue has listed 500 industries, in which 173 kinds are newly added. For example, in the manufacture industry, for Anhui province, it has added distributed control system for important technical equipment such as complete production lines of metallurgical equipment.

To optimize the direction of industries. It has added many items in the service industry, e.g. for Shanxi province, it has added the development and application of cloud computing, the internet of things, mobile internet and other new generation of information technologies.

To raise the technical standard of industries under the encouraged category. For example, “Manufacture of auto parts” has been adjusted as”6 speed automatic gearbox, high power density driving axle for commercial vehicle, head-lamp follow-up turning control system, LED head-lamp, application of lightweight material, clutch, hydraulic shock absorber, central panel assembly, seat.”

To add more provinces. 22 provinces (districts, cities) are involved in the encouraged category.

It is worth to be mentioned, Catalogue for the Guidance of Foreign Investment Industries (Amended in 2011) has removed the manufacture of complete automobiles, which has been added in the encouraged category of 2013 Catalogue. This is significant for those foreign invested companies who have started or plan to start the manufacture of complete automobiles in Central-Western Region.