China honors pledges to scrap ownership limits on foreign automakers in new negative list
China on Monday unveiled a nationwide negative list for 2021 – in a move that observers called “a signature and phased step in high-level opening-up of the economy” – that drastically reduced barriers for foreign investment for five years in a row, with a full scrapping of restrictions on foreign ownership in passenger cars and a further easing in foreign investment in the production of key communications equipment.