(1) Foreign-invested financial leasing companies: approved and supervised by the Ministry of Commerce (inherited by the former Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation).
(2) Financial leasing companies: approved and supervised by CBRC (below the People's Bank of China).
(3) Domestic pilot financial leasing companies: jointly piloted by the Ministry of Commerce of People's Republic of China (PRC) and State Taxation Administration of The People's Republic of China.