Officials said the State Council’s Regulations on overseas investment establish
a national overseas comprehensive service system and aim to promote
trade-investment integration while strengthening legal protections for outbound
firms. The rules task central and provincial governments and relevant
departments with upgrading public service platforms and coordinating foreign
affairs, legal, fiscal/tax, financial, trade, logistics, border/immigration,
customs and trade-promotion resources to support investors. Regulators will back
professional firms—consulting, legal, audit/accounting, credit-rating,
mediation/arbitration and IP—to raise international service capacity; banking
institutions are to provide financing within their mandates, and policy insurers
are encouraged to offer overseas investment insurance.