How Do I Know If a Chinese Company Exists Legally?

You can search for the information of the enterprise in China’s National Enterprise Credit Information Publicity System.

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This is a website of the State Administration for Market Regulation of China, available at: http://www.gsxt.gov.cn/index.html

The Administration for Market Regulation is the registration authority for Chinese enterprises. Therefore, this system is the most authoritative platform to verify the legal status of Chinese enterprises.

The website is available in the Chinese language and you can visit it outside China.

You need to paste the legal Chinese name of the Chinese company in the search box, and then click “Search”. See the picture below:

If you can’t find the company here, either the company doesn’t exist, or its current legal name is not what you type in. In short, this means that the company in this name doesn’t exist.

If you can find the company, you can know its status, such as existence, revocation, or deregistration. See the picture below:

Of course, if you find this operation too troublesome, you can always entrust us to do this for you and we won’t charge any fee for such work. For our China company verification services, please click HERE.

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Contributors: Meng Yu 余萌

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