Legacy articles of association used for a (greenfield) Sino-foreign equity joint venture (EJV) under the former three FIE laws regime. (For a Word version of this standard document in Chinese, click Standard document, Articles of association (greenfield EJV): China (Chinese language version).)

EJVs already in existence before 1 January 2020 may retain their existing organisational form for a period of five years until 31 December 2024. These EJVs should use this grandfathering period to restructure their organisational form and corporate governance framework to comply with the Chinese corporate and business law regime.

For specimen articles of association consistent with the regimes of China's Company Law 2018 and Foreign Investment Law 2019, see Standard document, Articles of association for a limited liability company with two corporate shareholders: China.