-----Catalogue for Guidance of Foreign Invested Industries and Catalogue of Competitive Industries for Foreign Investment of Guangxi are the guidelines for examining and approving foreign-invested projects and foreign-invested enterprises.

-----Foreign-invested projects belonging to the encouraged part, in addition to enjoying the specified preferential policies by the laws and administrative regulations, are allowed to enlarge the concerned business scopes upon approval if they engage in the construction and operation of the projects that require great investment and long recovery period, including the projects of energy resources, transportation and urban infrastructure (coal, petroleum, natural gas, electric power, railway, highway, port, airport, urban road, sewage treatment and garbage treatment etc.).

-----Foreign-invested projects of allowed part that export all products shall be deemed as the encouraged part. Foreign-invested projects of restricted part that have over 70% of product exportation, if approved by the People's Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region or the competent department of the State Council, shall be deemed as the allowed part.

-----The projects listed in the Catalogue of Competitive Industries for Foreign Investment in Mid and West Regions of China (Guangxi) shall be deemed as the foreign-invested projects of encouraged part.

-----In the encouraged part of the Catalogue for Guidance of Foreign Invested Industries, if conforming to the following conditions, the foreign-invested projects shall be deemed as the projects that require the comprehensive balance by the State.

1. Basic construction that need central budgetary investment, loans from the policy banks of the State, supports from the banks of ICBC, CCB, BOC and ABC as well the State's discount interests, foreign-invested projects with technical improvement loans, as well as the joint-venture and corporative projects with foreign investors that conform to the aforesaid investment and that are invested by the state-owned assets of government debts.

2. The foreign-invested projects that in connection with the national economy and livelihood of the people as well the distribution of productivity.

 ①Infrastructure projects. Including railway, highway, bridge, tunnel, port, civil airport, pipeline transportation, urban subway and light rail, thermal power station, nuclear power station and comprehensive water conservancy (including hydropower) projects.

 ②Key industrial projects. Including manufacture of urban rail transportation equipment, production of elf-changing gearbox, oil refinery, chemical industry as well production of paper pulp, cement, plate glass, chemical fiber and raw materials, secondary cellulose acetate and tows, chemical fertilizer and agricultural chemicals etc.

 ③Electronic equipment and communication projects. Including digital mobile communication production, manufacturing of synchronized transmission equipments of or above 2.5Gb/s, asynchronous transfer exchanger, digital cross-connection equipment, data communication multi-media system equipment, new-technology equipment supporting communication network, equipment of switch-in communication network, ISDN, monomode fiber, satellite communication equipment, new-type display apparatus (flat-panel display and monitor), compatible digital television, HD television as well air control equipment etc.

④Aerospace projects. Including manufacturing and designing of civil planes and spare parts, aeroengine and on-board equipment, light combustion turbine, commercial satellite and spares, as well as payload designing and development of application technology, designing and manufacturing of commercial carrier rocket etc.

 ⑤Mining industry. Including prospecting and mining of gold, development and utilization of rare earths etc.

3. The projects that require the approval from the State Council according to the relevant laws and regulations, projects using forest land as well the projects that consume great water resources and may cause damage or pollution to the fresh water.

4. The projects that require import and export quotas or licenses approved by the State.