The final threshold comes from the commitment of China in its WTO accession. Although the State Council encourages those foreign partners who have advanced technology and management experience to establish foreign partnership in China with the purpose to facilitate the development of the modern service industry， at this stage， the services industries may only limited to those listed in the Schedule of Specific Commitments on Services (Annex 9 of the Protocol on the Accession of the People’s Republic of China) and the openness will not be wider than the commitments therein.

　　Registration of the Foreign Partnership

　　In the FIEs regime， all investments by foreign investors need the pre-approvals of the MOC or MOC local branches. In the approval process， the MOC or MOC local branches will review， but not limited to， the content of the application， the article of associations of FIEs and contracts signed by the parties if any. Generally， this approval procedure will take 5 working days to 90 working days depending on the nature and total investment of the project. In this regard， the cancel of this approval for the foreign partnership will significantly escalate the speed of the establishment in the procedural stage and to a great extent reduce the uncertainty from the MOC or MOC local branches.

　　The Foreign Partnership Measures stipulates that the representative or agent of all the partners shall submit the establishment application only to the SAIC local branch and not the SAIC. The submission shall include， besides the documents required by the Regulations on the Administration of Registration of Partnership Business (revised in 2007， “Partnership Registration Regulation”)， the explanation on compliance of the foreign partnership with the foreign investment industrial policies， which will ease the review by the SAIC local branch. In this regard， the review may not be limited to the formality as provided in article 16 of Partnership Registration Regulation. It seems impossible for the SAIC local branch to issue the license to the foreign partnership on the spot. In this scenario， the SAIC local branch shall make a decision on whether to issue the license to the foreign partnership within 20 working days after the date it accepts the complete application.