浅析中外合作经营企业外方先行回收投资的法律问题

Research on the Issue of the Foreign Partners Recovering Their Investment inAdvance in Chinese-foreign Contractual Joint Ventures

对于中外合作经营企业,我国规定有允许外方先行回收投资这一项特殊的法律制度,然而考察现行相关法律规范,却不免对这一制度缺乏解释上的体系性与统一性,致使一些基本的法律问题至今仍存有诸多争议。从现行法律规定出发,试图对外方先行回收投资制度的内容进行梳理,以期实现对外方先行回收投资问题更深入的认识与理解。

As for Chinese-foreign contractual joint ventures,there exist special rules that the foreign partners can recover their investment in advance. However, when reviewing the provisions governing this legal device,no coherence and systematic explanations can be found. This results in controversies on some of the fundamental problems on this issue In order to have an indepth understanding of it, this article starts from reviewing the effective related rules,then proceeding to analyze the essentials of this legal device.