{"id":44285,"date":"2017-08-01T04:07:36","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T02:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newserver.fyb.de\/produkt\/chinese-investments-in-germany-and-the-peculiarities-of-the-chinese-approval-procedure-in-china\/"},"modified":"2017-08-01T04:07:36","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T02:07:36","slug":"chinese-investments-in-germany-and-the-special-features-of-the-chinese-approval-process-in-china","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.fyb.de\/en\/produkt\/chinese-investments-in-germany-and-the-special-features-of-the-chinese-approval-process-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese investments in Germany and the peculiarities of the Chinese approval procedure in&nbsp;China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> Florian Hirsch\u00admann<\/strong> \u2014 Attor\u00adney at Law and Local Part\u00adner of the law firm White &amp; Case LLP, Munich\/Shanghai<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prof. Dr. Chris\u00adtoph von Einem<\/strong> \u2014 Attor\u00adney at Law and Part\u00adner of the law firm White &amp; Case LLP, Munich and Lectu\u00adrer for Entre\u00adpre\u00adneur\u00adship &amp; Law, TU Munich<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>After the large German compa\u00adnies have been repre\u00adsen\u00adted in China for a long time, it is mainly medium-sized German compa\u00adnies that are curr\u00adently inves\u00adt\u00ading in China. They bene\u00adfit from the enorm\u00adous growth of the natio\u00adnal economy there. More than 5,000 German compa\u00adnies have alre\u00adady ventu\u00adred into China and inves\u00adted around 27 billion euros in the Peop\u00adle\u2019s Repu\u00adblic by the end of 2011. Chinese inves\u00adtors have so far been more reluc\u00adtant to invest in Germany. Both the comple\u00adxity of Chinese appr\u00adoval proce\u00addu\u00adres in China and the decis\u00adion-making proces\u00adses of Chinese inves\u00adtors in Germany should not be underestimated.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The status quo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Germany has main\u00adtai\u00adned perma\u00adnent econo\u00admic rela\u00adti\u00adons with the Peop\u00adle\u2019s Repu\u00adblic of China since 1972. Last year, 2012, German compa\u00adnies alre\u00adady expor\u00adted goods worth 66.6 billion euros to the East Asian coun\u00adtry. Germany is by far China\u2019s most important trading part\u00adner in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign invest\u00adment by Chinese inves\u00adtors has so far been more restrai\u00adned. Inter\u00adnal poli\u00adti\u00adcal objec\u00adti\u00adves were focu\u00adsed on preser\u00adving the coun\u00adtry\u2019s own raw mate\u00adri\u00adals and stabi\u00adli\u00adzing natio\u00adnal enter\u00adpri\u00adses. Howe\u00adver, this trend began to tip. New central econo\u00admic objec\u00adti\u00adves from Beijing paved the way abroad. Whereas in 2003, foreign invest\u00adment amoun\u00adted to just under 19 million euros. In 2011, the figure was alre\u00adady over EUR 386 million, and in 2012 it was almost EUR 472 million.<\/p>\n<p>A recent study by the Bertels\u00admann Stif\u00adtung predicts that Chinese invest\u00adments in Germany alone will grow to more than 1.5 billion euros annu\u00adally by 2020. The Chinese parti\u00adcu\u00adlarly appre\u00adciate German know-how, well-estab\u00adlished sales struc\u00adtures and the globally successful and leading posi\u00adtio\u00adning of German compa\u00adnies and their products. Well-known brands and Germany\u2019s loca\u00adtion in Europe are condu\u00adcive factors that encou\u00adrage inves\u00adtors to make tech\u00adno\u00adlogy trans\u00adfers and increase inte\u00adrest in German patents. German compa\u00adnies, for their part, welcome coope\u00adra\u00adtion with the Chinese. On the one hand, the Asian market is conside\u00adred the market of the future. On the other hand, Chinese inves\u00adtors are incre\u00adasingly seen by German busi\u00adness owners as welcome anchor inves\u00adtors to solve their own busi\u00adness succes\u00adsion problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":18963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[2452,2477,2516,2602],"product_tag":[1890,1899,2106,2137,2207,2210,2216],"class_list":{"0":"post-44285","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-ebook-en","7":"product_cat-florian-t-hirschmann-en","8":"product_cat-prof-dr-christoph-von-einem-en","9":"product_cat-fyb-2014-en","10":"product_tag-hirschmann-en","11":"product_tag-christoph-en","12":"product_tag-from-one","13":"product_tag-florian-en","14":"product_tag-chinese-investors","15":"product_tag-china-en","16":"product_tag-technology-transfers","17":"pa_sprache-english-3","18":"pa_sprache-german","20":"first","21":"outofstock","22":"taxable","23":"shipping-taxable","24":"purchasable","25":"product-type-variable"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Chinese investments in Germany and the peculiarities of the Chinese approval procedure in China - FYB Financial Yearbook<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fyb.de\/en\/produkt\/chinese-investments-in-germany-and-the-special-features-of-the-chinese-approval-process-in-china\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chinese investments in Germany and the peculiarities of the Chinese approval procedure in China - FYB Financial Yearbook\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"After the large German companies have been represented in China for a long time, it is mainly medium-sized German companies that are currently investing in China. 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