April data released by China's Ministry of Commerce shows that foreign investment in China grew steadily between January and April this year. In the meantime, however, a negative forecast for foreign investment in China looms.

On May 13, China's State Administration for Market Regulation announced that it will start an antitrust investigation of CNKI, an online database for papers and journal articles. CNKI has been in controversies in recent years for overpricing, refusing to provide service, and copyright infringement.

China's state planner recently issued a draft of the catalogue of sectors in which foreign investment is encouraged. The draft expanded the encouraged sectors to cover agriculture, equipment manufacturing, pharmaceutical manufacturing, as well as technical services. It also encourages investment in China's northeastern, central and western

China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) recently started an expiry review on anti-dumping measures imposed on chloroprene rubber from the United States, the European Union and Japan.

China's Customs recently announced that it will lift a 2021 ban on cattle and related products from Laos, effectively immediately.

China's Customs recently announced that it would start suspending sheep, goat and related products from Mongolia.

China's securities regulator is currently soliciting public comments on a recently issued draft of measures on cybersecurity issues in the securities and futures sector. The comments are due by May 29.