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Overall, the revised law emphasizes the principles of transparency, accountability, rule of law, and public participation in environmental monitoring. These make it inevitable that the costs of doing business in China for foreign-invested enterprises will go up—whether it be in the form of upgrading manufacturing facilities to comply with new environmental standards, establishing pollution control systems, or via the penalties of non-compliance. However, it remains to be seen how stringently these measures will be applied in practice.