USCBC’s comparative chart of China’s new and past foreign investment catalogues demonstrates that the new Catalogue Guiding Foreign Investment closely aligns with a draft released in late 2016 and opens only a few new sectors to foreign investment.

China confirmed a few new foreign investment openings earlier today, but did not add any liberalizations beyond those already signalled over the past few months.

Some new investment openings appear to be on the horizon in China, according to US-China Business Council (USCBC) sources, but the number and significance remain up in the air.