Foreign groups in China are being restricted from transferring their research data abroad, hampering international scientific collaboration and hitting pharmaceutical companies the hardest, according to China-based lawyers.
A regulation passed in March by the State Council, China’s cabinet, mandates that foreign scientists and foreign-invested institutions in China must seek government approval before scientific data can be transferred abroad or to foreign parties within its borders.
In the months since, foreign companies have been scrambling to determine whether this will jeopardise their research investments in China.
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