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Documents:
1) Foreign Investment Law of the People's Republic of China (2019) (China)
2) Sino-Foreign Equity joint ventures law (1979) (China)
3) Wholly Foreign-Owned Enterprises Law (1986) (China)
4) Sino-Foreign Cooperative Joint Venture Law (1988) (China)
5) Regulations on Special Economic Zones in Guangdong Province. (1980) (China)
6) China Constitution (1982 Amendment 2018) (China)
7) Law of Legislation art. 8 (2000) (China)
8) Implementing Regulations of Foreign Investment Law of the People’s Republic of China (2020) (china)
9) Regulations of China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone, art.1 (2019) (China)
10) Treatment Of Investors And Investments (Pre/Post-Establishment)
11) Negative List for Market Access (China)
12) The Special Administrative Measures (Negative List) for Foreign Investment Access (China)
13) China’s Negative List for Foreign Investment Access in FTZs
14) The 14th Five-Year Plan of the People’s Republic of China (2021)
Reports:
1) Zeng, D. Z. (Ed.). (2010). Building engines for growth and competitiveness in China: Experience with special economic zones and industrial clusters. World Bank Publications.
2) Research Center of the Islamic Parliament of Iran. Analysis and Review of the Economic Performance of the Free Trade Zones of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Economic Studies Department, 2021.
Theses:
1) Rahimi, Hozhabr. Comparative Study of the Laws and Regulations of the Free Trade Zones of Shanghai and Shenzhen. Tarbiat Modares University, Spring 2023.