Chinese foreign companies

Fees for incorporation of domestic limited companies

Services include:

Registered Shenzhen Limited Company (with Mainlanders as shareholders) 6,000 RMB

Qianhai Company

Guangzhou Co., Ltd

Zhuhai Hengqin Company

Qianhai Company

Information required for foreign companies + companies with natural persons as shareholders to settle in Qianhai

1. Company name (Shenzhen + trade name + industry + limited company)
2. Shareholder information, such as using a company as a shareholder and giving a Hong Kong company name, requires a PRC appointed lawyer notarization
3. Natural person shareholders and legal persons need to be present to provide their ID cards and return certificates
4. Corporate Identity Card & Home Return Card (Front & Back Clear Sketch Board)
5. Supervisor’s identity card and homecoming certificate (front and back clear sketch board)
6. Residential address of the legal person and supervisor
7. Business Scope (Business)

Handle the information obtained by the user

1. Original and copy of business license
2. Official seal, contract seal, financial seal, invoice seal, legal person seal
3. Articles of Association

Preferential policies that can be enjoyed by registering Qianhai companies

1. The address of the registered company in Qianhai can be attached to the address of the business secretary in Qianhai free of charge, and the enterprise can operate in a different place, which greatly reduces the cost of entrepreneurship and operation
2. If more than 70% of the main revenue of an enterprise registered in the Qianhai Free Trade Zone meets the Catalogue of Preferential Enterprise Income Tax, the enterprise will be subject to enterprise income tax at a reduced rate of 15%.
3. Insurance companies registered in Shenzhen are exempt from business tax on the income derived from providing international shipping insurance business to enterprises registered in Qianhai;
4. The income obtained by enterprises registered in Qianhai from offshore service outsourcing business is exempt from business tax;
5. Modern logistics enterprises registered in Qianhai that meet the prescribed conditions enjoy the policy of levying business tax on the difference of pilot logistics enterprises;
6. Improve the standards for the identification of technologically advanced service enterprises, and the identified technologically advanced service enterprises shall be levied enterprise income tax at a preferential rate of 15%, and the employee education and training expenses incurred shall be deducted before the enterprise income tax according to the proportion of no more than 8% of the total salary of the enterprise;
7. For private equity enterprises, Qianhai will give corresponding settlement incentives according to the scale of the private equity fund;
8. Overseas high-end talents can be exempted from individual income tax;
9. Qianhai’s innovative financial policies and low-interest cross-border loans have attracted more and more enterprises to settle in the Qianhai Free Trade Zone.

Register Shenzhen company

• Is a Hong Kong or Taiwanese registered Shenzhen company a foreign company?
• Yes, foreign shareholders who register companies in China are all foreign investors.
• In Sino-foreign joint ventures, can the Chinese party be a natural person?
• No, the Chinese side must contribute capital in the form of a domestic company.
• Can foreign companies be allowed in industries such as finance, real estate, education, transportation, and mining?
• No, these are all industries that affect the lifeblood of the country’s economy, and the shareholding ratio of foreign investors in some industries is restricted or even prohibited.
• Are there any requirements for a registered address?
• Proof of lease or title deed is required.
• Does the registered capital need to be paid-up?
• According to the time agreed in the charter, the actual payment shall not exceed 5 years in ordinary areas and 10 years in Qianhai

Guangzhou Co., Ltd

Guangzhou is an open coastal city in China, adjacent to Hong Kong and Macao, is the political, economic and cultural center of Guangdong Province, and is also a commercial and trade center city in South China integrating manufacturing, transportation, commerce, finance, information, education and talents, and is located in the regional center of the Pearl River Delta, one of the most economically active and developed regions in China.

Information required for foreign companies + companies with natural persons as shareholders to settle in Qianhai

1. Company name (Guangzhou + trade name + industry + limited company)
2. Shareholder information, such as using a company as a shareholder and giving a Hong Kong company name, requires a PRC appointed lawyer notarization
3. Natural person shareholders and legal persons need to be present to provide their ID cards and return certificates
4. Corporate Identity Card & Home Return Card (Front & Back Clear Sketch Board)
5. Supervisor’s identity card and homecoming certificate (front and back clear sketch board)
6. Residential address of the legal person and supervisor
7. Business Scope (Business)
8. Office lease contract: The owner must go to the district or town rental house housing management office to go through the housing lease registration and record, and sign a rental contract for more than one year;
9. Bank credit certificate

Handle the information obtained by the user

1. Original and copy of business license
2. Official seal, contract seal, financial seal, invoice seal, legal person seal
3. Articles of Association

Preferential policies for wholly foreign-owned enterprises in Guangzhou

1. Productive enterprises with a business period of more than 10 years can be exempted from the first two years from the year in which they start to make profits, and the enterprise income tax will be reduced by half for the next three years.
2. Productive high-tech enterprises with a business period of more than 10 years (subject to the certificate of high-tech enterprises) from the beginning of the year of profit, exempt from 2 years halved 3 years of enterprise income tax, halved of the enterprise income tax, enterprises can apply for approval, approved by the financial department at the same level to be fully exempted, after the expiration of the period, still for advanced technology enterprises for an extension of three years halved levy enterprise income tax, halved tax rate of less than 10%, according to the tax rate of 10%.
3. All technology-intensive and knowledge-intensive projects, or productive projects with a foreign investment of more than US$30 million and a long recovery period, can be levied at a rate of 15%.
4. For advanced technology enterprises, after the expiration of the period of exemption or reduction of enterprise income tax in accordance with the law, if they are still advanced technology enterprises after verification, they can extend the enterprise income tax for 3 years and reduce the enterprise income tax by half
5. After the expiration of the period of exemption or reduction of enterprise income tax in accordance with the law, the output value of the exported products in the current year reaches 70% of the total output value of the products in the current year, and the enterprise income tax can be reduced by half according to the tax rate stipulated in the tax law. For product export enterprises that have paid enterprise income tax at a rate of 15%, enterprise income tax shall be levied at a rate of 10% if they meet the above conditions.
6. If a foreign investor directly invests the profits from the enterprise in the enterprise, or sets up a new enterprise in the development zone with a business period of not less than 5 years, he or she shall return 40% of the enterprise income tax paid for the reinvested part, and if the above-mentioned investment belongs to a product export enterprise or an advanced technology enterprise with a business period of not less than 5 years, the enterprise income tax paid for the reinvested part shall be refunded in full.
7. Productive foreign-invested enterprises may be exempted from paying land use fees during the preparatory period stipulated in the contract. Product export enterprises and advanced technology enterprises can be exempted from land use fees.
8. The land in the development zone shall be transferred for compensation in accordance with the relevant laws and regulations of the state and local governments, and the state-owned land use certificate of the People’s Republic of China shall be applied for for the enterprises in the zone

Zhuhai Hengqin Company

In order to further optimize the investment environment of the Zhuhai Special Economic Zone, run foreign-invested enterprises well, and implement the autonomy and special economic policies granted to the Zhuhai Special Economic Zone by the state, the Zhuhai Special Economic Zone Management Committee has decided to implement further preferential treatment for foreign investment while conscientiously implementing the various preferential investment policies already existing by the state. The specific provisions are as follows:

Information required for foreign companies + companies with natural persons as shareholders to settle in Qianhai

1. Company name (Zhuhai City + trade name + industry + limited company)
2. Shareholder information, such as using a company as a shareholder and giving a Hong Kong company name, requires a PRC appointed lawyer notarization
3. Natural person shareholders and legal persons need to be present to provide their ID cards and return certificates
4. Corporate Identity Card & Home Return Card (Front & Back Clear Sketch Board)
5. Supervisor’s identity card and homecoming certificate (front and back clear sketch board)
6. Residential address of the legal person and supervisor
7. Business Scope (Business)
8. Proof of real estate and lease agreement of the business premises
9. Bank credit certificate

Handle the information obtained by the user

1. Original and copy of business license
2. Official seal, contract seal, financial seal, invoice seal, legal person seal
3. Articles of Association

Zhuhai’s main preferential policies for foreign-invested enterprises

The tax and import/export incentives open to foreign-invested enterprises in Zhuhai change with national and local policy, so this page does not list rates. Tell us your industry and investment amount and we will check the latest official rules and reply.