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Overview

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Identifiers

Collect two identifiers from each business customer in China (People’s Republic of China — Mainland) and submit them as strings on the application body. Tax ID: Same code; replaces legacy Business Licence Number, Organization Code Certificate, and Tax Registration Certificate (unified from 2015). Registration number: Same code; replaces legacy Business Licence Number, Organization Code Certificate, and Tax Registration Certificate (unified from 2015).

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Sector regulators

PBoC · NFRA · CSRC · SAFE · CAC · MIIT

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How documents combine

For each evidence area, this table shows whether the listed documents are alternatives (any one of) or a bundle (all required). The artifact-by-artifact lookup follows below.

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Documents to collect

The physical documents you’ll collect from your customer, with the evidence area each one proves. One document can prove multiple areas — for example, Brazil’s Cartão CNPJ covers both tax and business-registration proof, so it appears once with both areas listed. Not applicable in China (People’s Republic of China — Mainland): Operating Permit. Skip these areas — no local artifact exists.

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Collection notes

  • Legal Registration: Issued by local AMR; printable from gsxt.gov.cn; confirms USCC, scope, legal rep.
  • Constitutive Documents: Filed at AMR on incorporation; amendments must be re-filed; FIEs also have historical JV contract pre-2020 (now superseded by AoA).
  • Tax Registration: No separate tax certificate issued since 2015 unification; USCC printed on Business Licence is the tax ID. Request STA system printout if auditor needs explicit STA confirmation.
  • Sector-Specific License: Collect the licence(s) relevant to the entity’s business scope; scope is stated on the Business Licence.
  • Governance Records: Annual report filings on NECIPS update current officers; SAMR extract is the primary artifact.
  • Signing Authority: Company chop (公章) has independent legal binding force in PRC law — a stamped document can bind the company even absent a signatory’s personal signature. Always obtain and verify the chop alongside any board resolution.
  • Address: Conduit universal policy: lease (no time bound) OR utility bill OR bank statement, with utility/bank dated within 90 days. Same evidence satisfies both registered-address and operating-address checks.
  • Good Standing: China does not issue a Certificate of Good Standing. The 营业执照 (Business Licence) proves registration, not ongoing standing; current operating status (存续/在营 active vs 注销/吊销 cancelled/revoked) is published on the National Enterprise Credit Information Publicity System (GSXT) at gsxt.gov.cn but is not surfaced as an issued certificate. Verification is by online GSXT search.

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Person roles

When you submit a person on the application body, set their role to one of Conduit’s canonical BusinessPersonRole values. Use this table to map a local corporate-governance title onto the right canonical role.

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Notes

  • Single identifier: the 18-character Unified Social Credit Code (USCC) serves as both the registry number and the corporate tax ID — collect one certificate; both businessInfo.taxId and businessInfo.businessEntityId take the same value.
  • Company chop (公章) has independent legal force. A document stamped with a valid 公章 can bind the company under PRC law even without the legal representative’s personal signature. Always collect and independently verify the chop alongside board resolutions; do not accept resolutions that lack a chop.
  • USCC = tax ID = registration number. Since 2015 there is no separate tax certificate to collect; the 18-character USCC printed on the Business Licence is the authoritative identifier across SAMR, STA, and PBoC systems. Legacy Organization Code Certificates (9-digit) or old Business Licence Numbers are obsolete — reject them.
  • 2024 Company Law (eff. 2024-07-01) allows supervisory board to be replaced by an audit committee. Small LLCs may now operate with no supervisor at all (unanimous shareholder approval required). The supervisor role in the NECIPS extract may therefore be blank for post-2024 entities; this is legally valid, not a gap.
  • FIE / WFOE structure changed under Foreign Investment Law 2020. Pre-2020 WFOEs and JVs governed by the old Sino-Foreign JV laws are now subject to standard Company Law; historical joint venture contracts (合资合同) are superseded by the Articles of Association. Request the current AoA, not legacy JV contracts.