The National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Commerce released the "Catalogue of Industries Encouraged for Foreign Investment (2025 Edition)" on the 24th. The new version of the catalog will come into effect on February 1, 2026.
The total number of articles is 1679, with a net increase of 205 compared to the 2022 version
The new version of the "Catalogue of Industries Encouraged for Foreign Investment" includes the National Catalogue of Industries Encouraged for Foreign Investment and the Regional Catalogue of Advantageous Industries for Foreign Investment. The total number of articles is 1679, with a net increase of 205 and 303 modifications compared to the 2022 version.
New changes optimize directional guidance for foreign investment
The new version of the catalog encourages and guides foreign investment in advanced manufacturing industries, adds or expands relevant items in the fields of terminal products, components, raw materials, etc., and enhances the development level of the industrial and supply chains; Encourage and guide foreign investment in modern service industries, add or expand relevant items in areas such as business services, technical services, scientific research, and service consumption, and promote high-quality development of the service industry; Encourage and guide foreign investment in the central and western regions, Northeast China, and Hainan Province.
Jing Qin, Deputy Director of the Foreign Investment Department of the National Development and Reform Commission: Continuously improving the quality of investment attraction and perfecting the regional layout of foreign investment in China demonstrate China's positive attitude towards expanding international cooperation.
Provide investors with clear, stable, and transparent investment expectations
The Catalogue of Industries Encouraging Foreign Investment is an important foreign investment promotion policy in China, as well as an important foreign investment industry and regional policy. This is also the fourth time since 2019 that China has released it.
Yuan Qian, a researcher at the Institute of Foreign Economics at the Institute of Macroeconomics of the National Development and Reform Commission: From a supply side perspective, revising and expanding the "Encouragement Catalogue" is conducive to incorporating new technologies, new formats, and new models into the scope of encouragement, attracting global innovation factors, and achieving complementary advantages between Chinese and foreign enterprises through deepening international cooperation. From the demand side, revising and expanding the "Encouragement Catalogue" is conducive to guiding foreign-funded enterprises to better meet China's constantly upgrading needs in medical and health care, elderly care services, etc., improving people's livelihoods and further expanding domestic demand.
The new catalog enhances foreign investment confidence in China
Many executives of foreign-funded enterprises have stated that the new catalog has enhanced their confidence and expectations for investing in China, and the prospects for investing in China are broad and promising.
Guo Tiandan, Cloud Business Director of Dassault Systemes Greater China in France: The country encourages foreign investment in advanced manufacturing and modern services, which perfectly covers our business direction and further strengthens our confidence in development.
Key progress has been made in the field of energy construction
Multi angle perception of China's economic vitality
In recent days, China's energy construction sector has made significant progress.
On the 24th, China discovered a billion ton oil field in the Bohai Sea area - Qinhuangdao 29-6 oil field, with a daily production of about 370 tons of crude oil per well and a reservoir thickness of 66.7 meters. This oil field is the 7th billion ton oil field discovered in Bohai Oilfield since 2019, which is of great significance for ensuring national energy security.
By 2030, the total installed capacity of solar thermal power generation in China will reach around 15 million kilowatts
The National Development and Reform Commission and the National Energy Administration recently issued policies to systematically support the large-scale development of solar thermal power generation. Solar thermal power generation refers to a new energy technology that collects solar energy and uses thermal storage devices to achieve continuous power supply. The policy proposes that by 2030, the total installed capacity of solar thermal power generation in China aims to reach around 15 million kilowatts, and the cost per kilowatt hour is basically equivalent to that of coal-fired power.