NDRC Releases Final Outbound Investment Regulations

NDRC Releases Final Outbound Investment Regulations

January 15, 2018, Covington Alert

On December 26, 2017, China’s National Development and Reform Commission (“NDRC”) released the final Administrative Measures for Enterprise Outbound Investment (the “Final ODI Rules”), which will go into effect as of March 1, 2018 and govern NDRC's regime for reviewing Chinese outbound investment projects. The Final ODI Rules contain limited changes relative to the draft Administrative Measures for Enterprise Outbound Investment published on November 3, 2017 (the “Draft ODI Rules”) and described in our previous alert (see here).