CHENGDU, Jan. 18 (NBD) -- China plans to ease market entry restrictions on foreign investors in areas including services, manufacturing, and mining. 

The country will revise the Catalogue of Industries for Guiding Foreign Investment and related laws and regulations, according to the notice on expanding opening-up and actively utilizing foreign investment by the State Council. 

Foreign investors will accordingly get easier access to banks, securities and futures companies, insurers, insurance intermediaries. 

They will also be encouraged to tap deeper into sectors like ethanol production, motorcycle manufacturing, fat and oil processing, shale gas exploitation, accounting and auditing, architectural design, rating services, telecommunications, culture, education, and transportation.  

Moreover, foreign-funded enterprises will be allowed to list on the main board, SME board, growth enterprise board, and New Third Board, and raise money in China by issuing a variety of bonds or leveraging debt financing instruments of non-financial enterprises.  

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