《外商投资法》实施 上海颁发首张营业执照 - 2020年01月03日

Shanghai's market authorities granted their first business license to a foreign-invested enterprise funded by a Chinese individual on Wednesday, when the country's new Foreign Investment Law went into effect.
The law allows Chinese "natural persons" to fund and establish foreign-invested enterprises as domestic investors for the first time, the Shanghai Administration for Market Regulation said. In legal terminology, natural persons are simply individuals or private persons, as opposed to artificial entities like corporations or partnership entities.
In the past, Chinese natural persons were not included as a Chinese investor category of foreign-funded enterprises, blocking their ability to become shareholders in foreign-funded company directly, the administration said.