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WOFE Registration Service

Foreign-Invested City Planning Service Enterprise Registration

Eyes on China Registration Services

We take care of the registration procedure, saving you both time and resources and ensuring that your WOFE is correctly registered according to all of the PRC ’s latest legislations:

• Collecting, making and/or approval letters, feasibility report, proof of legal qualifications of all the investors, contract, filled forms, articles signed and documents requested
• Going and returning to the 13 Examination and Approval Departments according to their time limit
• Dealing with the 14 Examination and Approval Departments according to deadlines
• Fulfilling additional requirements in order to fully register your WOFE

Application Requirements

1. There must be minimum registered capital of 100,000RMB
2. There must be a practical registered address
3. Investor shall enterprises or technical personnel engaged in urban planning service in foreign countries or regions
4. Have more than 20 professional and technical personnel of urban planning building, road traffic, landscaping and associated works, and other aspects, among them, ratio of foreign professional and technical personnel and all professional and technical personnel should not be less than 25%, the number of foreign professional and technical personnel of urban planning, construction, road transport, professional landscaping expatriate professional should not be less than 1 person
5. Have technical equipment and fixed workplace accordance with the national requirements

Application Procedure

1. Pre-approval of WOFE Name

• Examination and Approval Department: Administration of Industry and Commerce

2. Pre-approval of setting up Foreign-invested City Planning Service Enteprise

• Examination and Approval Department: National Tourism Administration
• Time Limit: Within 100 working days
• Required Documents:
  • Application for setting up WFOE
  • Article of association
  • Feasibility report
  • Project proposals and setting up program
  • Credit certification of investor (issued by the bank)
  • Identification of legal representative
  • Notice for pre-approval name of the enterprise, name list of the pre-approval investor
  • Documents and supporting documents of chairman, board members, managers, engineering and technical representation sent by Investors
  • Investors' last three years of investment balance sheet and income statement audited by CPA and CPAs.
  • Registered certificate of enterprises engaged in urban planning service in Foreign investors' host country or region
  • Experience and performance certificates of engaging in urban planning service from government authorities or trade associations, societies, the civil organizations of Foreign investors' host country or area.
  • Proof of legal qualifications of all the investors.

Please note: Foreign investors should provide a main body qualifications proof or an identification notarized by a domestic notary organ as well as by 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 foreign inverstors are from countries which have not established or have ended foreign relations with China, their main body qualifications proof or the identification should be notarized by their domestic authorities and then by a third country´s embassy whose country has established foreign relations with China. All the notarized documents have to be notarized by the Chinese embassy located in the third country.

3. Process of Proposed Agency Code

• Examination and Approval Department: State Bureau of Technical Supervision (The Administration Center of Organization Code)

4. Industry and Commerce WOFE Registration

• Examination and Approval Department: Administration of Industry and Commerce

5. Record at the Public Security Bureau

• Examination and Approval Department: Municipal Public Security Bureau (the Administration Center of Embarkation and Disembarkation)

6. Enterprise Chop Engrave

• Examination and Approval Department: Engraving of organization chop proposed by police station

7. Application for Code of Enterprise

• Examination and Approval Department: State Bureau of Technical Supervision (The Administration Center of Organization Code

8. Tax Registration

• Examination and Approval Department: Municipal Local Taxation Bureau

9. Registration of Administration of Foreign Exchange

• Examination and Approval Department: Beijing Center of Foreign Exchange Control

10. Opening Bank Account

Local bank

11. Financial Registration

• Examination and Approval Department: The Financial Bureau

12. Statistic Registration

• Examination and Approval Department: The Statistical Bureau

13. Beijing Customs Procedure for WOFE Registration

• Examination and Approval Department: Customs