China Securities Regulator met with global firms to hear concerns about investing in China

Hong Kong press with the report about China Securities Regulatory Commission vice-chairman Fang Xinghai meeting with some global venture capital and private equity firms to hear their concerns about investing in the country

• the meetinggs, it says, are aimed at boosting market confidence as China's economic recovery loses steam

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• The rare meeting with global funds comes after President Xi Jinping's administration voiced its strongest support in recent years for the country's private tech enterprises just days earlier.

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China is facing an uphill battle to increase confidence with threats to jail foreign executives:

• Morgan Stanley is moving 200 developers out of mainland China in response to new data law

• China's new espionage law likely to discourage foreign capital inflow, cut economic growth

• Head of Volkswagen in China asked Premier Li Qiang for clarity on new anti-espionage law