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WOFE Registration Service

Foreign-invested Logistics Functions 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. Investors wishing to establish an international foreign-invested logistic functions enterprises should have at least one investor who has good performance and business experiences of operating international trade or international transport of goods or international transport of goods agency; the investor meeting those conditions should be the first major shareholder.
2. Investors wishing to establish a third party international foreign-invested logistic functions enterprises should have at least one investor who has good performance and business experiences of operating international trade or international transport of goods or international transport of goods agency; the investor meeting those conditions should be the first major shareholder.
3. The minimum registered capital is 5 millions USD
4. There must be a practical registered address
5. Have necessary business facilities

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 Logistic Functions Enterprises

• Examination and Approval Department: National Tourism Administration
• Time Limit: Withing 40 working days
• Required Documents:
  • Application for setting up WFOE
  • Feasibility report
  • Article of association
  • List and CV of board of director‚ unit management menber and the chief manager.
  • Credit certificate of investor (issued by the bank)
  • Proof of the use of premises (including rental contract, proof of premises)
  • Notice for pre-approval name
  • Letter of authorization for legal documents service
  • Instrument of commitment
  • Copies of the ID and the power of attorney of the personnel
  • Proof of legal qualifications of all the investors.
  • Proof of business facilities

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

• Examination and Approval Department: 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