New Chinese policy criminalises unlicensed businesses
By Yoke Wong
Published: Tuesday, 05 September 2017
The Chinese government plans to criminalise businesses operating without licences, and the new, harsher policy could eliminate many small-scale industrial minerals producers without the legal paperwork.
China will be implementing a new policy to criminalise all
business operations without licences by 1 October, the State
Council said on 5 September, a move which could hit
many small-scale industrial minerals producers without the
legal paperwork.
This regulation will replace the previous policy set in
2003. Unlike...