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China has cut the number of sectors and businesses that are off-limits for both domestic and foreign investors in its 2019 version of negative list for market access, the country's central authorities said Friday.

The shortened list contains 131 administrative measures on investment, down 20 administrative measures or 13 percent from the 2018 version released last December, according to the list jointly released by the Ministry of Commerce and the National Development and Reform Commission.

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