For decades, as the world's largest construction and manufacturing site, China has been a major magnet for foreign direct investment thanks to its low-cost labor and double-digit growth.
The expansion of China's free trade zones will create more places where reforms in foreign investment management can be tested.
The nation is pursuing a more proactive fiscal policy to offset the economic slowdown. But there is a worrying source of uncertainty-that of local governments' off-budget spending.
After 35 years of rapid revenue growth in China, foreign companies are broadening their business networks by expanding in the western part of the country.
After a disappointing 2014, the property market faces even more uncertainties in the Year of the Ram, with positive and negative factors abounding.