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Foreign businesses set to face complex business environment, despite Beijing’s best efforts

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Beijing has ambitions to improve the business environment over the next five years, but geopolitical headwinds will remain brisk for foreign businesses. Top leaders made further opening to foreign business and investment a high priority in their proposal for the 15th Five-Year Plan (FYP), which drop...



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