Dear Readers,
This week’s China Law Digest focuses on the port city of Tianjin. Long overshadowed by its neighbor Beijing, Tianjin municipality has quietly created an atmosphere hospitable to investors and businesses seeking good transportation infrastructure, good environmental conditions, and good governance. [view more]

Tianjin Sets for Financial Innovation (China Daily 5-30-2008)

Eco-City to Reclaim Wasted Land, Water (China Daily 5-30-2008)

Alcoa Helps Fuel Growth in Tianjin (China Daily 5-30-2008)

Hopes Pinned on OTC (China Daily 5-30-2008)

TEDA Fulfills Deng's Promise (China Daily 5-29-2008)

Tianjin City People's Government Order No.3

Regulations of Making Public of Tianjin City Government Information adopted at the 6th meeting of Tianjin City People's Government on April 21 is hereby promulgated, to be effective on May 30, 2008 [click here to view the complete article]

China's First Nationwide Open Government Information Regulations are Adopted

The Regulations of the People's Republic of China on Open Government Information (the Regulations) came into effect on May 1st 2008. They provide for a more open government by requiring greater transparency in China. Vice Minister Zhang Qiong has made it clear that the regulations are designed to safeguard "the public's right to know, the right to participate and the right to know" while being designed to "help curb corruption at its source by largely reducing its occurrence."
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