China has unveiled the “2025 Foreign Investment Stabilization Action Plan,” featuring 20 bold initiatives to boost foreign investment and global economic cooperation. Key measures include expanding market access, streamlining regulations, and enhancing legal and business services to create a competitive and open market. With China positioning itself as the premier destination for international capital, the question remains: how fast will investors seize these open opportunities?
What China is also sending the world is a clear message that its doors are open for business. On February 20, 2025, the China International Chamber of Commerce released the “2025 Foreign Investment Stabilization Action Plan,” containing 20 bold initiatives aimed at enhancing the quality of foreign investment and contributing to global economic cooperation for China. Among its marquee initiatives is one to “expand market access in sectors of strength,” emphasizing China’s openness to leverage growth opportunities with foreign investment. The plan emphasizes factors such as autonomous openness, investment promotion, and improved service guarantees, which are a strategic orientation for creating a welcoming environment for global capital.
But the plan doesn’t end there. China is reducing bureaucratic hurdles, offering clearer legal and market information, and organizing international exchange events — all to facilitate access to and business within the Chinese market as never before. These reforms aren’t just aimed at inviting capital, they are meant to create a competitive, open and flexible marketplace for foreign enterprises. Fielding legal consultations, workshops with market-specific information, and business training that directly applies to their respective opportunities, China is taking the steps to secure foreign businesses with long-term success.
The roadmap comes hot on the heels of the Foreign Enterprise Working Committee’s successful annual meeting and the unveiling of the 2024 China guide for foreign business leaders, cementing China’s resolve as the destination of choice for international investors. These 20 open doors signal that as China welcomes the world into its” home,” it will not hesitate pulling on more doorknobs for future partnerships to lead to global synergies between economic development. The question is not whether investors should enter China’s market, but how quickly they’ll step through these open doors.