Guidance Catalogue and Central and WesternCatalogue are the basic blueprints for foreign invest-ment in China. Sectors falling within different cat-egories have different investment polities for foreign-invested enterprises. There are three basic categories inthe Guidance Catalogue: \"encouraged\", \"restricted\",and \"prohibited\". Industries not listed in GuidanceCatalogue are deemed to be \"permitted\", all indus-tries listed in Central, and Western Catalogue shallbe deemed as encouraged categories. In addition, theaforementioned two catalogues have different ap-plication scope, Guidance Catalogue is applicable tofull China, Central and Western Catalogue is onlyapplicable to 21 provinces, autonomous regions andmunidpalities located in central and western China.