Corporate Formation in china

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Beijing is also a Chinese city that attracts large amounts of investment from transnational corporations. In the recent years, more and more transnational groups are choosing Beijing as the destination to establish Sino-foreign contractual joint ventures or their regional headquarters. Of the 270 transnational and world-renowned corporations that have invested in Beijing, 126 of them are among the world's top 500 industrial giants or service companies. So far, these companies have registered 5,600 representative offices in Beijing, representing more than 80 countries and regions, which is a first in China. All these have laid a solid foundation for the city's further opening up to the outside world. For more information about Beijing, Please visit http://www.investbeijing.gov.cn/english/index.html, http://www.ebeijing.gov.cn To facilitate people who want to invest and set up business in Beijing, here is an introduction of Types of business presence in China: Before starting up a business in China, you have to know what are the options. Foreign Investors generally establish a business presence in China in one of five modes: Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprise (WFOE); Representative Office; Foreign Invested Partnership Enterprises (FIPE); Joint Venture and Hong Kong Holding Company. Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprise (WFOE) is a Limited liability company wholly owned by the
foreign investor. WFOE requires registered capital and it's liability of equity , can generate income, pay tax in China and it's profit could be repatriate back to investor's home country. Any enterprise in China which is 100 percent owned by a foreign company or companies can be called as WFOE. Representative Office (RO) is a Liaison Office of it's parent company. It requires no registered capital. It's activities would be: product or service promotion, market research of it's parent company's business, Quality Control liaison office etc in China. RO generally is prohibited to generate any revenue nor generating contracts with local businesses in China. Joint Venture (JV) is a Limited liability company formed between Chinese investor and Foreign investor. The parties agree to create a entity by both contributing equity, and they then share in the revenues, expenses, and control of the enterprise. JV usually been used by foreign investor to engage the so called restricted in areas such like: Education, Mining, Hospital etc. Since March 1, 2010: Measures of Establishment of Foreign Invested Partnership Enterprises (FIPE) in China is taking effect. The regulation, which take effect since March 1, 2010, are known as the Administrative Measures for the Establishment of Partnership Enterprise in China by Foreign Enterprises or Individuals. There's no required minimum registered capital for a Foreign Invested Partnership Enterprise (FIPE) in Beijing, Beijing, Shenzhen, Hangzhou and rest cities of China Hong Kong Company usually been used as a Special Purpose vehicle (SPV) to invest Mainland China. Hong Kong is one of the quickest locations to Incorporate a business. Although a HK company is not a legal entity in Mainland China (MainlandChina and Hong Kong, See Wiki 1 country, 2 systems), lots foreign investors, especially investors from Europe and North America still chose to setting up a Hong Kong company as SPV to invest China.
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