The national security review system in China is a system to review direct or indirect foreign investment in specific fields. Generally, there are two triggers for the procedure: one is investment transactions in domesticmilitary industry, military supporting industry, close proximity to key and sensitive military facility,or otherrelated national defense industries; the other is foreign investors acquiring actual controls in important agricultural products, important energy and resources, important infrastructure, important transportation services, important culture productions, important IT products and services and critical technologies, crucial equipment manufacturing sectors, etc., which are crucial to national security. In 2011, the General Office ofthe State Council issued the Circular on Establishing the Security Review System for M&A of Domestic Enterprise by Foreign Investors which further detailed the provisions on the national security review mechanism in China.

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