On April 13, 2012, the Ministry of Health published draft Measures for Administration of Sino-foreign Equity Joint and Cooperative Joint Medical Institutions (“Draft Measure”) for public discussion. The Draft Measure is published due to recent adoption of new Foreign Investment Industry Catalogue (2011), effective as of January 30, 2012, pursuant to which foreign investment to healthcare industry is no longer restricted. However, it appears that not only existing restrictions under the Interim Measures for the Administration of Sino-Foreign Equity and Cooperative Joint Venture Medical Institutions (“Interim Measure”) issued by the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation in 2000 are not reduced, but new restrictions will be added. A summary of the Draft Measure is as follows: