Online Chinese Business License Verification (Registration Number Search) for Free

If you are checking and searching a Chinese business license registration number by online system, here SMEsChina provides a free solution for your studies, in China, our government offices publish all information of registration and the approved registration files for the public by Chinese business license verification system, if you want to use this online tools to verify a local company or your partner, here is a right place for the business license verification. Also, SMEsChina will list other methods to verify other approved certificates of business registration.

All of these useful online tools and verification system are free. Before your searching and checking, SMEsChina suggests you use Google Chrome as the browser, because Chinese government verification system and websites are Chinese language (Simplified Chinese), and Google Chrome can help you translating to English or your mother tongue. You can download Google Chrome from this link: https://www.google.cn/chrome/.

OK, let’s go ahead.

First, you have to ask your partners, manufactures or cooperators to scan and send you the approved business registration license (new version is 5-in-1 business license), below is a sample of the latest 5-in-1 license (due to customer information privacy policy, some important information has been processed by SMEsChina teams).

In the upper left corner, you can find out the Unified Social Credit Code, this code contains numbers and letters, in China, this Unified Social Credit Code, also known as Tax Register Number (Tax ID) and corporate registration number.

And then, you have to link the website of National Enterprise Credit Information Publicity System: http://www.gsxt.gov.cn/index.html (known as: Chinese business license number verification system). And input the Unified Social Credit Code (the upper left corner of above sample picture) and click the search button, as below screenshot.

OK, the website will jump to the query result page automatically as below screenshot, and you can click the company name and registration number to check more details.

Now, you can check any information from this detail page to verify these registration information. Because all of these information are Chinese language, that’s why we suggest you to use Google Chrome to translate by online.

For your better understanding the information of verification for a Chinese business license and registration number. SMEsChina brief translated these items and descriptions as following screenshots.

Divided into four verification modules:

Module 1: Company name, registration number, legal representative, supervised authority, date of establishment. (due to customer information privacy policy, some important information has been processed by SMEsChina teams).

Module 2: Basic Information, Administrative License Information, Administrative Penalty Information, Listed in the List of Business Abnormalities. Here you may click each button to check out the related information.

Module 3: Included registration number, company type, registered capital, register date, supervised authority, registered address, details business activities, corporate name, legal representative, approved date, operating period.

Module 4: List of shareholder(s), and nationality, shareholder’s effective ID.

Included the names of supervisor and executive director.

Included change records of the company, and annual inspection records.

Included: Email, office address, shareholders and shares, website, enterprise asset status information, equity change information, social security information.

Here is a guidance on searching and checking the tax registration information from the State Taxation Administration. For example, above case, the company registered in Shanghai China, and you can open the website of Shanghai taxation office, the verification of taxation records is https://www.tax.sh.gov.cn/xbwz/wzfw/yihushi.jsp, and input the Tax id and click the search button.

Below is an approved Custom Permit (certificate), includes company name and register number and the Customs Code of the company.

Enter the website of the Customs District P.R.China, like above case registered in Shanghai China, the link is: http://credit.customs.gov.cn/, and input the company name or the Unified Social Credit Code. As following screenshot.

Included: company name, register number, registered address, business type, credit records, list of administrative penalty.

That’s all, all business licenses registration information, and the taxation records and the Customs certificate and credit records you may search and check by yourself from above verification system and online tools. If you need a lawyer, you can contact SMEsChina teams.