Foreign Company Establishment in China

From our experience, a service industry can be set up within 20 working days, a Chinese trade company needs another 5 working days to obtain import and export permits.

Our prices include all service package for foreign companies registration.

– Collection, approval, and verify the documentation prepared by customers.
– Offer a legal virtual office address to obtain the approval of registration.
– Name search and submit application, get the approval of the corporate name.
– Documents and forms preparation, and signature of the corporate shareholder(s).
– Apply for the certificate of registration of foreign owned enterprise approved by the local Municipal Commission of Commerce.
– Obtainment of the business registration license from the local licensing authority, know as: 5-in-1 business license.
– Issuing of the corporate stamps, known as corporate seals.
– Documents collection and submitting for tax registration, and VAT taxpayer application.
– Basic and capital accounts opening and capital account declaration.
– Government cost, translate fee, and drafting of the legal files and forms.
– Import and export license registration and permits application.
– Yearly administrative and maintaining services, such as license renew.
– Annual bookkeeping and tax declaration services for income tax report, annual audit, government inspection, tax final settlement.

Shareholder(s):
Known as owners, as the investors of the company to operate daily transactions, you can learn the detail requirements from our guidance <Qualifications and Legal Requirements of Shareholder>. Shareholder(s) can be an existed business or individual(s).

Executive Director:
As well as the legal representative of a company, appointed by the shareholders and sign the contracts, agreements on behalf of the company. You can learn its qualifications from our guidance <Legal Representative Requirements>. Executive director can be a Chinese citizen or a nonresident, no restriction on nationality.

Supervisor:
Known as: secretary, on behalf of the shareholder(s) to supervise the senior management teams, no nationality restriction. You can learn supervisor’s requirements from our guidance <Legal Requirements of the Supervisor>.

Finance Manager:
You have to hire a local accountant as the financial manager to report the tax returns each month, and report your VAT and profits depending on your daily operations.

Different business entities can apply for the different business scope from industrial selections. You can choose the business activities from different selections and industrial classifications. For example, if your China company is a garment business to operate daily purchase and sale (trade classification), also you can select garment design from service classification, even you can select electronics as the business scope if you need. In China, most companies have already obtained the approval of cross-industry business.

Here, SMEsChina has listed a table of required documents you have to prepare in your home country, and call a courier to send these documents to SMEsChina offices. Our lawyers need to submit the documents to local government office to verify and check.

Here, SMEsChina has listed a refer links for your studies, you have to decide the following information of company registration through our related guidance links.

You have to look for a local lawyer and fill in the information and files of a foreign company establishment and business registration, SMEsChina also provides the services to our foreign customers. Here is a list of required documents and forms of company formation for your studies. Detail documents you may refer to the page <Registration Documents Download> to get more studies.

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