The establishment process varies based on one’s chosen investment structure and planned business scope. For example, setting up a manufacturing FIE requires an environmental evaluation to be completed, setting up a trading FIE must comply with the customs/commodity inspection requirements, and setting up simple services FIE may require neither.
Establishing a foreign investment structure in China generally takes between three and six months and involves the following government authorities:
Below we take Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprise (WFOE) as an example to demonstrate the setup procedure.
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