PANEL 1
China’s Foreign Investment Legal Regime: Toward China’s Development Goals
5:00pm - 5:50pm SGT / 9:00am - 9:50am GMT / 11:00am - 11:50am CET
China’s foreign investment legal regime encompasses its domestic laws governing inward and outward investments, investment protection treaties, and the special rules of the Belt and Road Initiative. After more than four decades’ continued effort in building and reforming the regime, it is worth considering whether the regime works as expected – contributing to its five main development goals: building technological capacity; deepening integration into the global economy; promoting green development; protecting security; and participating in global economic governance and rule-making.
This panel offers an evaluation of the contribution of China’s foreign investment legal regime to the achievement of China’s development goals, noting areas of progress and areas of continuing challenge. The starting point for the discussion is the recently published book China’s Foreign Investment Legal Regime: Toward China’s Development Goals (Brill 2023), authored by Yawen Zheng.
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Moderator
Filippo Fontanelli (Senior Lecturer in International Economic Law, University of Edinburgh)
Book Presentation
Yawen Zheng (Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore)
Discussant
Heng Wang (Professor of Law, Singapore Management University)
10 min break
Panel 2
China’s Inward and Outward Foreign Investments: Opportunities, Challenges and Response
6:00 pm - 7:00pm SGT / 10:00 am - 11:00 am GMT / 12:00 pm-1:00pm CET
For the past two decades, China has experienced unprecedented growth in its inward and outward foreign investments. However, their growth is showing a downward trend more recently despite China’s continued steps towards the promotion of foreign investment flows, including the improvement of the foreign investment legal regime and further liberalization of the range of sectors into which foreign investments can be made. Against this background, this panel brings together both academics and practitioners from both inside and outside of China to share their views on various issues related to China’s two-way foreign investments. Specifically, this panel will discuss the investment environment and possible opportunities for the development of China’s foreign investments, the challenges they face, and possible responses of both China and investors to address these challenges.
Moderator
N Jansen Calamita (Head, Investment Law & Policy, Centre for International Law; Research Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore)
Panellists
Vivienne Bath (Professor of Chinese & International Business Law, University of Sydney)
David Boitout (Partner, Gide Loyrette Nouel)
Qingjiang Kong (Professor, Dean of School of International Law, China University of Political Science and Law)
Patrick Yuan (Equity Partner, Zhong Lun)
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