Ministry of Commerce: Foreign investment security review will not increase the burden on normal foreign investors

　　China News Service, March 18, Ministry of Commerce spokesperson Gao Feng said on the 18th that China’s just-implemented "Foreign Investment Security Review Measures" are in accordance with the requirements of the "Foreign Investment Law" and its implementation regulations, and the country’s foreign investment security review system Refinement and improvement are necessary guarantees for the steady and healthy development of China's economy and further opening up to the outside world. In the long run, it is conducive to the better development of foreign-funded enterprises in China and will not add unnecessary burdens to normal foreign investors and enterprises.

　　The Ministry of Commerce held a regular press conference today. A reporter asked at the press conference that the new "Measures" emphasized that if foreign investment affects national security, the working mechanism led by the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Commerce can make a decision to prohibit investment.

Some foreign businessmen believe that the definition of the impact of investment on national security is not clear.

How to define "investment that affects national security"?

Gao Feng made the above statement.

　　Gao Feng also pointed out that the implementation of security review for foreign investment is an internationally accepted practice, and major economies in the world have established or are improving the security review system for foreign investment.

　　Gao Feng said that the "Measures" clearly stipulated the scope of foreign investment that should be subject to security review, which mainly includes two aspects: first, investment in military industry, military industry supporting areas, and other areas related to national defense security, and investment in military facilities and the surrounding areas of military industry facilities; It is to invest in 9 areas, including important agricultural products, important energy and resources, which are related to national security, and obtain actual control of the invested enterprises.