A legacy Sino-foreign equity joint venture (EJV) contract for use by a foreign investor establishing a new (greenfield) EJV with a Chinese company under the former three FIE laws regime. (For a Word version of this standard document in Chinese, click Standard document, Equity joint venture contract (greenfield): China (Chinese language version).)

Under China's Foreign Investment Law (FIL) regime (with effect from 1 January 2020), a joint venture (JV) contract or shareholders' agreement is no longer a required document to establish a JV company. Shareholders of the JV may decide whether to enter into a shareholders' agreement at their own discretion.

Practical Law China is working on a specimen shareholder's agreement (for a limited liability company with two corporate shareholders) aligned with the regimes of China's Company Law and FIL.