Catalogue of Encouraged Foreign Investment Industries

I. Farming, Forestry, Animal Husbandry and Fishery Industries

(1) Improvement of low- and medium-yielding field

(2) Planting, development and production of woody edible oil, ingredient and industrial raw material

(3) Pollution-free planting technology of vegetables (including edible fungus and melon-watermelon), dried and fresh fruits and teas, and serial development and production of these products

(4) Development and production of new technology of sugar-yielding crops, fruit trees and forage grass

(5) Production of flowers and plants, and construction and operation of nursery base

(6) Planting of rubber, sisals and coffees

(7) Cultivation of traditional Chinese medicines (limited to equity joint ventures or contractual joint ventures)

(8) Reusing in fields and comprehensive utilization of straws and stalks of crops, and development and production of resources of organic fertilizers

(9) Planting and cultivation of improved strains of forest trees (including bamboo) and cultivation of new varieties of polyploid trees and genetically engineered forest trees

(10) Breeding of aquatic offspring (excluding precious quality varieties peculiar to China)

(11) Construction and operation of ecological environment protection projects preventing and treating desertification and soil erosion such as planting trees and grasses, etc.

(12) Breeding of aquatic products, cage culture in deep water, large-scale breeding of aquatic products and breeding of eco-ocean products

II. Mining and Quarrying Industries

(1) Prospecting, exploitation and utilization of coal-bed gas (limited to equity joint ventures or contractual joint ventures)

(2) Venture prospecting and exploitation of petroleum and natural gas (limited to equity joint ventures or contractual joint ventures)

(3) Exploitation of oil and gas deposits (fields) with low osmosis (limited to equity joint ventures or contractual joint ventures)

(4) Development and application of new technologies that can increase the recovery factor of crude oil (limited to equity joint ventures or contractual joint ventures)

(5) Development and application of new technologies for prospecting and exploitation of petroleum, such as geophysical prospecting, well drilling, well-logging and downhole operation, etc. (limited to contractual joint ventures)

(6) Prospecting and exploitation of such unconventional oil resources as oil shale, oil sand, heavy oil and super heavy oil (limited to contractual joint ventures)

(7) Prospecting, exploitation, and beneficiation of iron ores and manganese ores

(8) Development and application of new technologies for improving the utilance of tailings and the comprehensive utilization of recovery technology of the mine ecology

(9) Prospecting and exploitation of submarine flammable ice (limited to contractual joint ventures)

III. Manufacturing Industries

1. Farm Products Processing Industry

(1) Development and production of biology feeds, straw and stalk feeds and aquatic feeds

(2) Aquatic product processing, seashell product cleansing and processing, and development of function food made from seaweed

(3) Storage and processing of vegetables, dried and fresh fruits, fowl and livestock products

2. Food Manufacturing Industry

(1) Development and production of infant and geriatric food, as well as function food

(2) Development, production and processing of forest food

(3) Production of natural addictive for foodstuff and ingredients (limited to equity joint ventures or contractual joint ventures)

3. Beverage Manufacturing Industry

(1) Development and production of beverage of fruits, vegetables, albumen, tea and coffee

4. Tobacco Processing Industry

(1) Production of secondary cellulose acetate and processing of tows (limited to equity joint ventures or contractual joint ventures)

(2) Production of tobacco slices in the way of paper making (limited to equity joint ventures or contractual joint ventures)

(3) Production of filter rods (limited to equity joint ventures or contractual joint ventures)

5. Textile Industry

(1) Production of special textiles for industrial use with high and new technology

(2) Weaving and dyeing as well as post dressing of high-grade loomage face fabric

(3) Processing of special natural fiber products satisfying the requirement of comprehensive utilization of ecology and resources and environment protection (including animal fiber other than wool, fibrilia, bamboo fiber, mulberry silk and colored cotton)

(4) Production of clothes with computer-integrated-manufacturing system

(5) Production of top-grade carpet, embroider and drawnwork products

6. Leather, Coat and Feather (Down and Feather) Products Industry

(1) Cleaning processing of leather and fur