Direct-selling Company incorporation in China
Last Updated: March 5, 2011
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Application requirements(conditions)：
Application procedure and documents:
1. pre-approval of name of WFOE
Examination and Approval Department:
State Administration of Industry and Commerce (SAIC)
Time limit:
Within 5 working days
Required documents:
Pre-approval for names of enterprise
Appointment letter
2. Application for setting up WFOE
Examination and Approval Department:
Municipal bureau of commerce
Time limit:Within 100 working days
Required documents:
Documents and certificates to show the enterprise is capable of doing direct-selling
Marketing plans reports, and service network plans in direct-selling area authorized by
At least a local people’s government at county level
Instruction of the products according to the national standards
Samples of sales promotion contracts to be singed with salesperson
Credit certificates issued by accounting firms
Agreements between enterprises and banks in using deposits according to law
Any other requirements by the Bureau of Commerce
3. To process proposed agency code
Examination and Approval Department:
State Bureau of Technical Supervision (The Administration Center of Organization Code)
Time limit:
2 working days after acceptance
Required documents:
Approval of Articles of association of proposed China company
Application of proposed agency code
4. Industry and Commerce registration of WFOE
Examination and Approval Department:
State Administration of Industry and Commerce (SAIC)
Time limit:
7 working days
Required documents:
Application form of setting up WFOE
Articles of association of proposed China company
Approval by the approving authority and the copy of《Approval letter of foreign-invested enterprise》
Proof of legal qualifications of all the investors.(foreign investors should provide main body qualifications proof or the identification notarized by their domestic notary organ and also the Chinese embassy in those their home countries. Investors from Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan must also provide documents notarized by their domestic notary organ (documents from Hong Kong should be stamped and forwarded by the China Legal Service (H.K.) Ltd, Valid Mainland Travel Permits can be personal identification for Taiwan investors and do not need to be notarized.) If countries of which the foreign investors have not established or have already ended foreign relations with China, their main body qualifications proof or the identification should be notarized by their domestic authorities and then by third country’s embassy which the country has established foreign relations with China. All the notarized documents have to be notarized by the Chinese embassy located in the third country. )
2 x Bank reference letter
Company name application form, signed by investor.
4 x Letter of Authorization
Corporate secretary (contact) registration form
4 x Letter of Authorization for legal documents service
Besides, the printed name list of the investor, member of the board of director, general manager and supervisor, one copies each.
5. To record in Public Security Bureau
Examination and Approval Department:
Municipal Public Security Bureau (the administration center of embarkation and disembarkation)
Time limit:
6 working days
Required documents:
The registration application for record
The identification of legal representative
Business license, approval letter, photocopy of approval
6. To engrave of chop of enterprise
Examination and Approval Department:
Engrave of chop organization proposed by police station
Time limit:
2 working days
Required document:
Application form of chop engrave
7. Apply code of enterprise
Examination and Approval Department:
State Bureau of Technical Supervision (The Administration Center of Organization Code)
Time limit:
3 working days after acceptance
Required materials:
Application form
Returning paper of proposed agency code
The identification of legal applicant
Business license, approval letter, photocopy of approval
8. Tax registration
Examination and Approval Department:
Municipal Local Taxation Bureau
Time limit:
5 working days
Required document:
Identification of legal representative
Business license, approval letter, photocopy of approval
Housing contract
Registration form of tax
9. Registration and Approval with State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE):
State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE)
Time limit for handling:
20 working days after acceptance
Required materials:
Written application (stamped by chop)
Copy of business license provided by the legal representative, non-legal representative enterprise shall provide original and photocopy of business license
Approval documents for approving the setting up of enterprise issued by the Commerce Department, the original and photocopy of the certificate.
Effective contract of foreign-invested enterprises(except for wholly-owned foreign enterprise), original Articles of association of proposed China company and its photocopy.
Original and photocopy of code of enterprise
10. Opening bank account
Due to the different requirement of the bank, the required documents need to be confirmed.
11. Financial registration
Examination and Approval Department:
The financial bureau
Time limit for handling:
2 working days after acceptance
Required materials:
Business license, approval certificate, photocopy of approval
Financial registration form
12. Statistic registration
Examination and Approval Department:
The statistical bureau
Time limit for handling:
2 working days after acceptance
Required materials:
Copy of Business license, approval certificate, photocopy of approval
Statistic registration form
13. Customs procedure to register WFOE
Examination and approval department:
Customs
Time limit:
Within 5 working day
Required documents:
Copy of Business license
Approval certificate, photocopy of approval
Photocopy of Articles of association of proposed China company photocopy.
Photocopy of tax registration
Photocopy of bank account certificate
Photocopy of certificate of proposed agency code
Moulage of chop of enterprise. juridical person and apply to customs
Registration form for apply customs
Registration form of management for apply customs
law in 5 consecutive years before the time of application. Foreign
investors must have at least 3 years experience in foreign-invested direct-selling outside China.