In 2002, China adopted a financial innovation called Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor (QFII) regime in order to accommodate itself to the globalization of capital market. The QFII regime is mostly adopted by emerging markets and considered as a transitional arrangement when the currency and capital of a country are still restricted in an extent. Under the QFII regime, foreign investors are not allowed to invest to China’s A-shares market directly but must through the qualified institutions as intermediaries. Qualified institutions open up securities account in CSD and become the nominal holders of the securities while the actual foreign investors are not recorded in the book. In essence, there is an indirect holding relation within QFII operation. However, the pace of legislation is much slower than the market innovation in China. Up to now, there are no formal legal instruments regulating the relations exist in QFII comprehensively and let alone the investors protection issues. Under this circumstance, the actual investors are facing several legal risks and in great need of regulations to safeguard their legal rights. This problem may become much more severe under the background of the most recent global financial crisis. This crisis brings a challenge to the legislators of every country to perfect the legislations because a better regulatory framework may help to secure the asset of investors as well as the whole market while regulatory failure may deteriorate the situation. This thesis will firstly discuss the current situation of China’s capital market and provide its legal framework as the background. Then, the QFII regime will be particularly analyzed and the investor protection issues will be mainly focused. Base on the aforementioned, this paper will argue that current legal arrangement is not beneficial enough for the investors and certain improvements should be made. Suggestion about the improvements will be made on the foundation of evaluating different practices in various countries which have a sound and comprehensive ideas on the similar problem. In spite of the practices in the states level, international organizations’ effort will be taken into consideration and discussion as they also Enhancing Legal Certainties on Investor Protection of China’s QFII Regime 9 provide irreplaceable experiences on the matter. There will be prospect made in the final of the thesis concerning about the future of the QFII regime and relating investor protection issues. Keywords QFII Regime, Investor Protection, Global Financial Crisis, Indirect Holding, CSD, Legal Uncertainty, Intermediated Risks, Security Entitlement, Equitable Proprietary Right, Corporate Governance, Insolvency, Functional Approach, PRIMA Rule