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[…] China is one of the world’s top two countries for foreign direct investment (FDI). It adds $64.0 billion for a cumulative total of $563.8 billion at year-end of 2004 ("Doing Business In China: A Country Commercial Guide for U.S. Companies"). On a cumulative basis, the USA, invested $48.0 billion at the end of 2004 and this country is the second largest foreign investor after Hong Kong in China.
Investment climate of China has changed much in 25 years of opening and reforms. On December 11, 2001 China became a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Despite of the fact that the WTO is mainly related with trade, China also took on responsibilities to reduce some trade-related investment limitations, such as demands for domestic content, technology transfer and foreign exchange balancing. The country took obligation to relax absolute barriers for foreign investing in new sectors. […]

[…] Congress created REITs under the U.S. tax code in 1960. They were formed to give smaller investors the possibility to invest their profits in various real estate assets. According to the Real Estate Investment Trust Act of 1960 (Public Law 86-779 - Internal Revenue Code Section 856 et seq.), investors who gave preference to real estate instead of security investments could receive the same tax benefits as mutual funds and other regulated investments (“Real Estate Syndicates and Investment Trusts”, n.d.). It means that “in the case if a REIT distributes 95 percent or more of its ordinary income to shareholders, it is taxed, at corporate rates, on only the retained earnings” (“Real Estate Syndicates and Investment Trusts”, n.d.). […]

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