ABSTRACT
The modern international investment law regime is primarily an institutional structure in which international investment protection rules and the dispute settlement mechanism distribute and coordinate the interests of concerned subjects at a specific stage. This chapter traces China’s past and present and draws a matrix in which China’s legal system and its development of FDI regime are evaluated. While the FDI regulatory landscape has been moving towards systemic efficiency with the aim of promoting economic growth, the complex metrics and underlying logics may change from time to time.
