Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Yawen Zheng -- Copyright page / Yawen Zheng -- Preface and Acknowledgements / Yawen Zheng -- List of Figures and Tables / Yawen Zheng -- List of Legislation, Normative Documents, Treaties and Non-binding Documents / Yawen Zheng -- List of Cases / Yawen Zheng -- Abbreviation and Acronyms / Yawen Zheng -- Chapter 1 China's Two-Way Investments and Its Development Goals / Yawen Zheng -- Chapter 2 China's Domestic Law Governing Inbound Foreign Direct Investment / Yawen Zheng -- Chapter 3 China's Domestic Law Governing Outbound Foreign Direct Investment / Yawen Zheng -- Chapter 4 China's Investment Treaties and Treaties with Investment Provisions / Yawen Zheng -- Chapter 5 The "Belt and Road" Initiative and China's Development Goals / Yawen Zheng -- Concluding Remarks / Yawen Zheng -- Bibliography / Yawen Zheng -- Index / Yawen Zheng.

China's foreign investment legal regime encompasses domestic laws governing inward and outward investments, investment treaties and the Belt and Road Initiative. Can China's foreign investment legal regime lead its two-way investments towards the country's five development goals (building technological capacity, deepening integration into the global economy, promoting green development, protecting security, and participating in global economic governance and rule-making)? Yawen Zheng pioneers a systematic study of China's foreign investment legal regime, finding that the regime has gradually made progress towards the development goals, but the effort is diluted by obstacles such as outdated treaties, conflicts with the West, and domestic political challenges.

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