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CIRCULAR OF THE GENERAL OFFICE OF THE MINISTRY OF COMMERCE ON SETTING UP AN INFORMATION BANK OF OVERSEAS INVESTMENT INTENTION OF ENTERPRISES
 
(No. 39 [2003] of the Ministry of Commerce promulgated on November 28, 2003)
     
     
SUBJECT : INFORMATION BANK OF OVERSEAS INVESTMENT
ISSUING DEPARTMENT : MINISTRY OF COMMERCE OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
ISSUE DATE : 11/28/2003
IMPLEMENT DATE : 11/28/2003
LENGTH : 816 words
TEXT :
In order to speed up the implementation of the "Going out" strategy, strengthen services on overseas investment information, and find out the trends of overseas investment of Chinese enterprises in time, as well as do a good job for guidance and coordination, this Ministry has hereby decided, upon approval, to set up an information bank of overseas investment intention of enterprises (hereinafter referred to the "Information Bank") on the sub-website of the Department of Foreign Economic Cooperation subject to the government website of the Ministry of Commerce, and hereby makes the following notice on relevant matters concerned:

I. MAIN FUNCTIONS OF THE INFORMATION BANK

The main functions of the Information Bank to be established shall include: publicizing information on the overseas investment intention of the Chinese enterprises, and providing an information platform for various domestic and overseas institutions and enterprises to know each other and communicate with each other, for the purpose of strengthening investment information exchange between the Chinese enterprises and overseas enterprises, and promoting the development of foreign trade and economic cooperation business of our country. Enterprises applying for joining in the Information Bank may download the "Registration Form of Overseas Investment Intention of Enterprises" (see Attachment) from the sub-website of the Department of Foreign Economic Cooperation subject to the government website of the Ministry of Commerce (http://www.mofcom.gov.cn), and send it to the departments in charge of foreign trade and economy of the corresponding province or municipality after having it filled out according to facts, annexed seal of the enterprise, and attached necessary materials.


II. REQUIREMENTS FOR AN ENTERPRISE FILING AN APPLICATION

1. Economic entities registered within the territory of China (excluding Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan Province) according to law, which have the qualifications of a legal entity;
2. The registered capital of the enterprise is more than RMB 10 million Yuan, and the enterprise has made profits in three consecutive years; and
3. The amount of overseas intention investment of a single project is more than one million US dollars.


III. THE DOCUMENTS NEEDED FOR THE APPLICATION

1. Photocopy of the business license of an enterprise;
2. The financial statement of an enterprise in three consecutive years; and
3. Registration Form of Overseas Investment Intention of Enterprises.


IV. INFORMATION EXAMINATION AND VERIFICATION AND ISSUANCE

All the local departments in charge of foreign trade and economy shall attach importance to the work at the height of speeding up the implementation of the "Going out" strategy, publicize and introduce to the enterprises the functions and effect of the Information Bank on their own initiatives, and earnestly organize the work for application and report, examination and approval, statistics and report of the information on local overseas investment intention. For those information reported by the enterprises, which are in conformity with the requirements after examination and verification according to the prescribed requirements, the departments shall have them collected and classified according to industries, and sent them to the division of research & development on overseas processing under the Department of Foreign Economic Cooperation of the Ministry of Commerce by both email and post, the email postboxes are:

hzjg@mofcom.gov.cn,
chenwenlin@mofcom.gov.cn

The Ministry of Commerce shall be responsible for publicizing the above-mentioned information in the "Information Bank of Overseas Investment Intention of Enterprises". The time for reporting and sending the information shall be the last ten-day of May up to the last ten-day of November every year in principle, and the time for publicizing the information shall be the last ten-day of June up to the last ten-day of December every year. And the information may be increased or modified irregularly if necessary.

The follow-up and statistical work for the investment intention information publicized by each region shall be properly done, and the information shall be verified and updated in time according to the progress of overseas investment of enterprises, so as to keep the accuracy and effectiveness of the information.

All the enterprises directly under the Central Government shall report and send their information directly to the Ministry of Commerce by the above-mentioned ways.


V. OTHERS

The Department of Foreign Economic Cooperation of the Ministry of Commerce shall be responsible for the construction of and supervision over the above-mentioned Information Bank. It may, apart from publicizing the above-mentioned information through the government public websites, upon the need of the work, provide services such as the relevant information of different countries on attracting foreign investment, opportunities for enterprise investment negotiation, and training of policies of different countries on overseas investment, as well as special knowledge training, etc., and push the implementation of investment cooperation projects through organizing enterprises to make overseas investigation.

The Ministry of Commerce welcomes all kinds of domestic and foreign organizations, institutions, enterprises and individuals to provide opportunities and assistance to the Chinese and foreign enterprises, and provide investment cooperation information and consultation services.


Attachment: Registration Form of Overseas Investment Intention of Enterprises (omitted)
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