Enterprise Service

Guidance on Registration for Hainan Free Trade Port Foreign-Invested Enterprises (including Hong Kong,Taiwan and Macao)

Business registration preparation materials

Please provide the following documents:

Provide the pre-selected company name; registered address; registered capital and currency; copies of qualification certificates for all investors (including front and back photos of shareholder's business license/registration certificate/ID card/passport photo page, etc.); shareholding ratios of all investors; scope of business; scanned copies of the identification documents of the legal representative, directors, supervisors, general manager, financial officers, market entity registration liaison, and authorized representatives, as well as registered mobile phone numbers of these persons.

Proof of eligibility of all investors

Investor is foreign enterprise,Provide Photocopies of qualification certificates of all Investor

(1)If it is from a country that has not acceded to the《Convention abolishing the requirement of legalization for foreign public documents》(APOSTILLE),the business certificate of a foreign enterprise and its legal representative must be notarized by a local lawyer and authenticated by the local embassy. Then translate into Chinese and provide photocopies.(All certification documents the must be translated by a legitimate translation agency,and marked with“Accurate translation”).

(2)If enterprises come from these countries in the list in APOSTILLE,they don't need to be certified by the embassy.Instead,enterprises can undergo the certification process in specific institution.For example,in Singapore,the competent authority for APOSTILLE is the Singapore Law Institute.

Investors from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan (corporate shareholders of natural person shareholders without a communication certificate to and from the mainland) shall provide notarized documents from a local notary public (generally a law firm) in accordance with the law.

The investor of the proposed Hainan company are foreign legal persons.If the legal person:

(1)Has a previous record of visiting China,it is required to provide a scanned copy of the passport's front page with the facial image,pages showing entry and exit records to China,and the passport's signature page.

(2)Has no previous record of visiting China,they will need to notarize their passport with the issuing authority of their home country and the Chinese Embassy or Consulate in that country.The final notarized documents must also be translated,and scanned copies of the translated documents should be provided (the translation should match the original documents).

If the legal representative,investor,or other high-ranking executive of the proposed company in Hainan is a resident of Hong Kong,Taiwan,or Macao and holds a"Hong Kong/Taiwan/Macao Resident Permanent Identity Card,"it is advisable to obtain notarization from the Ministry of Public Security.It is also recommended to provide a “Mainland Travel Permit for Hong Kong and Macao Residents”(Reason:Hong Kong/Taiwan/Macao Resident Identity Cards do not have recorded information in the mainland China public security system,whereas the Mainland Travel Permit is used for travel to and from the mainland and has recorded information in the mainland China public security system.

Registration of market entities

Name pre-approval (1-3 working days) Establishment (information processing depends on the degree of cooperation of your company signed documents, information entry submitted to the registration audit 1-3 working days out of the results)

During the establishment phase, the legal representative, business liaison, and financial responsible person's information needs to be provided by the individual with a verification code and scanned QR code authentication before submission.

If the proposed Hainan company serving personnel or foreign shareholders signing directors for foreign / Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, you need to enter all the information generated by the filing application (all information entry is complete before generating), print the hand signatures, scanned to us to upload the system.

If the incumbents of the proposed Hainan company or the foreign shareholders signing directors are all mainland Chinese, scan the QR code with WeChat.

Engraving the seal and obtaining the business license (1 - 3 working days) After the establishment of the company for seal engraving, generally engraved official seal, financial seal, invoice seal, corporate seal.

Tax registration, social security account opening ( working day) Bank account opening (on-demand account, the materials required as follows, generally complete information - working days)

Basic deposit account (RMB)

● Official seal, financial seal, corporate seal

● Business license, seal filing receipt

● Original ID card/passport of legal representative

● Constitution, address agreement

● Payment contact ID card (2-digit), original Internet banking administrator ID card (2- digit), real-name phone number (Note: payment contact and Internet banking administrator can be the same)

● Foreign shareholder's business license, notarized authentication document and Chinese translation, beneficiary passport/ID card scan (the beneficiary is a natural person who holds more than 25% interest in aggregate after layer penetration)

● The original ID card of the person in charge

Note: The bank account opening stage requires the legal representative of Hainan Company to record a small video verification by cell phone in accordance with the template required by the bank, or video phone verification, or the bank's designated APP for legal representative identity verification. Foreign exchange to be paid account (the same material as the basic account) FDI registration and capitalization account (in addition to the materials required for the basic account, the following materials are also required)

● Shareholding structure chart of Hainan Company (tracing back to natural persons and listed companies and providing relevant document photos)

● Foreign shareholders are required to provide a statement describing the mode of capital contribution and a description of the enterprises invested in China (please list the name, place of registration, registered capital and source of funds of the invested enterprises in China)

●Identity documents of the actual controller (if it involves return investment, please provide)