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Ask anyone who has tried to invest directly in China’s electric-vehicle story over the past decade and you’ll hear a version of the same complaint: the growth was obvious, the access wasn’t. The cars sold. The charging networks went up. The numbers kept climbing. And foreign capital mostly watched from the sidelines, kept out by capital controls and a regulatory perimeter that left little room to participate.
That’s the gap a new advisory deal is trying to close.
RWA Global Inc, a real-world asset tokenization consultancy with bases in the British Virgin Islands and the UAE, has signed a formal advisory agreement with Golden Dolphin Trading L.L.C., a UAE-registered company built around new-energy mobility infrastructure in mainland China. The plan: tokenize roughly $300 million in real-world assets — and do it in a way that actually clears China’s notoriously strict rulebook.
That last part is the whole story, really.
On 6 February 2026, the People’s Bank of China, the CSRC and six other agencies issued a notice, the now much-discussed Yin Fa [2026] No. 42, alongside a set of CSRC guidelines. Read one way, it’s a crackdown: onshore tokenization stays banned, renminbi stablecoins are off the table, and the rules explicitly stretch to catch offshore structures built to dodge the spirit of the law. But sitting inside the same document is something that didn’t exist before — a filing-based route for issuing tokens offshore that are backed by onshore Chinese assets, provided you get CSRC sign-off first.
It’s not an open door. It’s more like a door with a bouncer, a guest list and a metal detector. But for foreign investors who spent years with no door at all, that’s a real shift and it’s the opening RWA Global Inc and Golden Dolphin are trying to walk through.
The assets in question aren’t abstract. China is the largest new-energy vehicle market on the planet, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers counted around 16.5 million units sold in 2025, more than half the country’s total new-car sales. The charging infrastructure underneath has scaled just as hard, past 19 million charging points by late 2025, in a domestic charging market researchers put north of $25 billion. Physical, cash-generating, capital-hungry assets, which happens to be exactly the profile tokenization was built to finance.
The idea is simple even when the execution isn’t: wrap economic rights to real assets in regulated digital securities, and you can widen the investor pool, strip some friction out of fundraising, and bring a little liquidity to things that have always been hard to trade — without stepping outside a compliance framework.
The market has been drifting this way for a while. Strip out stablecoins and tokenized real-world assets sat somewhere around $24–30 billion on-chain by the end of 2025, more than triple a year earlier, per trackers like RWA.xyz; add stablecoins back in and CoinGecko’s 2026 report puts the whole thing past $300 billion. The forecasts get loftier from there — Boston Consulting Group has floated $16 trillion by 2030, Standard Chartered $30 trillion by 2034. Take those with the usual grain of salt, but they’re big enough that BlackRock, Franklin Templeton and most of Wall Street are already in the room.
None of this is entirely new ground for China. The country tokenized a portfolio of more than 9,000 EV charging stations back in 2023 but that was the wild-west era, before any national framework existed, and regulators hit pause on mainland institutions’ offshore RWA activity in September 2025 while they worked out a position. What’s different now is the rulebook. RWA Global Inc says it is structuring the Golden Dolphin engagement to sit inside the February 2026 regime from day one, which is less about flash and more about not having the whole thing unwound later.
“China’s new-energy economy is among the most dynamic in the world, yet global investors have had few compliant ways to participate in it directly,” said Kevin Yunai, founder and CEO of RWA Global Inc. He frames the Golden Dolphin work as a first step toward “a transparent, regulated bridge between international capital and Chinese real-world assets.”
Donna Tang, a partner at Esquare Legal, reads it in similar terms, less a single transaction than “an early step toward a compliant offshore bridge between China’s industrial value and global capital,” and a cleaner way for outside investors to get exposure to the country’s clean-energy push.
Whether the model scales is the open question. A lot rides on how the CSRC handles filings in practice, and the first deals through any new regime tend to move slowly. But if it works, the template, onshore assets, offshore tokens, regulator in the loop could end up mattering well beyond a single $300 million deal. RWA Global Inc and Golden Dolphin say more details are coming.
Disclaimer: This article is for informational purposes only and is not an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any security, token or financial instrument, nor investment, legal, tax or financial advice. The advisory engagement described is indicative and subject to client decisions, qualified counsel and applicable regulators; the $300 million figure is approximate. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, and actual results may differ. Market figures cited are drawn from third-party sources and have not been independently verified.
