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Overseas investment encouraged in health, education

By Zhao Chunzhe (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2009-12-25 11:41
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China will enhance its efforts to attract overseas investment in the health and education sectors next year, Chen Deming, China's minister of commerce, said, according to a report today from China Business News, a Chinese financial and economic newspaper.

"China is going to expand its imports next year and encourage more overseas investment in environmental friendly businesses, the qualified among which can go public in China," Chen said at a national commercial meeting held yesterday.

The government will support foreign medical and educational companies that invest in China with good policies, Chen said.

"There already is a Sino-US joint medical clinic in Ningbo (in east China's Zhejiang province). It has become easier for foreign investment to access the Chinese market," said Yu Danfeng, the head of Ningbo breau of foreign trade. "But the certification for foreign medical workers still needs time to be perfected."