Entity type selection, business scope drafting, and the registration filing itself — the decisions made here determine what the entity can legally do for the rest of its life.
What this covers
- Entity type comparison (WFOE, joint venture, or branch) against the client's actual activity and ownership requirements
- Business scope drafting, checked against the applicable negative and encouraged-industry lists
- Company name pre-approval with the market regulator
- Articles of association and founding resolutions drafted for the chosen structure
- Registration application filed and tracked through to certificate issuance
- Company chop and seal set produced and registered
- Initial statutory register opened and populated
Our services
Structure and scope selectionEntity type and business scope matched to the client's actual activity, checked against the current negative list.
The structure chosen at formation is not easily undone later. Whether an entity is set up as a wholly foreign-owned enterprise, a joint venture, or a branch determines what licences it can hold, how capital moves in and out, and what governance obligations it carries — restructuring after the fact is a materially larger project than getting it right the first time.
Registration filingThe application carried through to certificate issuance, not handed off once submitted.
Business scope is the second decision that compounds. A scope drafted too narrowly means a licence amendment before revenue against a new activity is even permitted; drafted too broadly against an encouraged or restricted category, it can trigger scrutiny the entity didn't need to invite. We screen the proposed scope against the current negative list and Hainan's own encouraged-industry catalogue before it is filed, not after a regulator flags it.
Chops, seals, and statutory registersThe governance instruments a newly certified entity is required to hold, produced and opened at formation.
We carry the registration application itself through to the certificate, then produce the company chop set and open the statutory registers the entity is legally required to hold from day one — the filing is complete when the entity can actually be governed, not merely when the certificate is issued.
Why choose HainanInc?
Scope checked against the current negative list before filing
One tracked application from name approval to certificate
Hainan Free Trade Port filing experience, not a generalist PRC playbook
Case study
Untangling an SPV's Reporting Obligations After a Structure Change
A special purpose vehicle connected to a capital markets transaction changed its asset composition mid-year, and the regulatory reporting calendar built for its original structure no longer matched what was actually required.
Composite illustration based on common engagement patterns; not a specific client.