Interpretation of the General Administration of Civil Aviation ofChina of Certain Issues of the Notice Concerning Relevant Policieslicences on Foreign Investment in Civil Aviation
Interpretation of the General Administration of Civil Aviation ofChina of Certain Issues of the Notice Concerning Relevant Policieslicences on Foreign Investment in Civil Aviation
(Promulgated on October 25, 1994)
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Interpretation of the General Administration of Civil Aviation of China of
Certain Issues of the Notice Concerning Relevant Policies licences on
Foreign Investment in Civil Aviation
(Promulgated on October 25, 1994)
The promulgation of the Notice Concerning Relevant Policies on Foreign
Investment in Civil Aviation (hereinafter referred to as the Notice) is
another fundamental move of our country to further open to the outside
world. In order to ensure the correct comprehension and implementation of
the Notice, an interpretation on certain issues with regard to the Notice
is hereby made as follows:
1. On the issue of the scope in which foreign investors may invest in
the construction of airports, the investment in the flying areas shall
include that for flight assisting light in addition to the runway, taxiway
and parking apron as stipulated in Item 1, Section 1 of the Notice.
2. On the issue of investment, "capital contribution from the Chinese
side shall constitute more than fifty-one per cent" in Item 2, Section 1
means the same as "with the Chinese capital investment constituting more
than fifty-one per cent of the enterprise's registered capital" in the
second half of Item 1, referring to the rate of the Chinese capital
contribution to the enterprise's registered capital.
3. On the issue of investment ratio
In establishing Chinese-foreign equity joint ventures or cooperative
joint ventures for single construction of airport flying areas as provided
for in Item 1, Section 1 of the Notice or for joint construction of any
one or more of the auxiliary projects as listed in Item 2 of the same
section, or for a comprehensive construction of an airport, the Chinese
capital contribution shall, in any case, constitute more than fifty-one
per cent of the enterprise's registered capital, and the offices of
chairman of the board of directors and of general manager shall be assumed
by personnel from the Chinese side.
In Chinese-foreign equity joint ventures or cooperative joint ventures
for single construction of the terminal building as provided for in Item
2, Section 1 of the Notice or for joint construction of any one or more of
the auxiliary projects listed in the section, the Chinese capital
contribution shall, in any case, constitute more than fifty-one per cent
of the enterprise's registered capital, and the offices of chairman of the
board of directors and of general manager shall be assumed by personnel
from the Chinese side.
Where Chinese-foreign equity joint ventures or cooperative joint
ventures established for foreign investment in civil airport flying areas
as provided for in Item 2, Section 1 of the Notice need to increase the
investment amount to enlarge the business scope and engage in the
operation of the auxiliary projects as listed in the item, the Chinese
capital contribution shall also constitute more than fifty-one per cent of
the enterprise's registered capital, and an application shall be submitted
for approval in light of the regulated procedure.
4. "Foreign investment in establishment of air transport enterprises"
stated in Section 2 of the Notice refers to the investment made by foreign
investor (s) in the air transport enterprises already established, which
shall be examined and approved in the same way as the establishment of an
enterprise with foreign investment and the conditions for such an
enterprise shall be fulfilled, but does not mean the establishment of a
new air transport enterprise. According to the State Council decision on
temporarily ceasing to examine and approve establishment of new airline
companies, foreign investors may only make investments in the air
transport enterprises already legally established.
5. The issue of "jointly holding shares" stated in Item 2, Section 2
of the Notice means that Chinese air transport enterprises and foreign air
transport enterprises may, on the condition of reciprocity, jointly hold
each other's shares and effectively cooperate in market operation, with no
personnel from one side to the other side's managing circle for
participation in management control.
6. On the issue of "choosing one or two air transport enterprises as
experimental units" as stated in Item 3, Section 2 of the Notice, the
China East Airlines and the China South Airlines that are carrying out the
experimental reform of stock system and getting ready for listing outside
China are, after approval, among the experimental units put forward in the
Notice. An increasing of the experimental units shall be subject to
otherwise decision and announcement of the General Administration of Civil
Aviation of China.
7. On the issue of the foreign investment in an air transport
enterprise, if a foreign investor invests in an air transport enterprise
in any of the forms stipulated in these Regulations, the proportion of his
investment or the capital actually paid in the registered capital of an
air transport enterprise shall not exceed thirty-five per cent, his
deputy's right to vote shall not exceed twenty-five per cent of that of
the board of directors, and his right to vote in the shareholders'
conference or shareholders' meeting shall not exceed twenty-five per cent
either.
8. "Home enterprises of the same kind" as stated in Item 6, Section 2
of the Notice refers to the existing local air transport enterprises with
no foreign investment. And "all items of tax" mainly refers to the import
duties of aircrafts, air material, enterprise income tax, etc. in which
two kinds of enterprises with and without foreign investment shall enjoy
equal treatment so as to ensure them an equal competition environment.
9. In terms of the general-purpose agriculture and forestry aviation,
Section 3 of the Notice states that foreign investors may invest in
general-purpose agricultural and forestrial airline enterprises only.
General-purpose airline enterprises other than agricultural and forestial
airline enterprises are outside the scope of foreign investment.
10. "According to law" as stated in Section 5 of the Notice means
"according to" the State laws administrative regulations, rules of the
General Administration of Civil Aviation of China and other relevant
stipulations.
11. If a company, enterprise or other economic organization or
individual from Taiwan, Hong Kong or Macao invests in or participates in
holding shares of a civil aviation enterprise on the mainland, matters
shall be handled under this Interpretation.
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