Business credit is very important when doing business around the world. While establishing business operations in China, finding local business partners and customers must be a major task. As well as the challenge of reaching out to a new business community, how can you be confident in the honesty of your potential partners? How can you check that the company really has the scope and capabilities claimed? If you find out that your intellectual property in China has been infringed (your product or trade mark has been copied) how can you start to research the infringer?
China company information is publicly available and can be accessed via the electronic database of each local Administration of Industry and Commerce. This search can reveal, amongst other details, if the company is an officially registered company in China, who can legally represent the company and sign contracts on behalf of the company, what the business scope of the company is, and where the company is located.
Why should I do the search?
This search is relevant to any EU SME who is searching for, or is approached by, a potential Chinese business partner, or is dealing with a (possible) infringer of their intellectual property.
Possible examples of situations in which you can do the search in order to find the official registered basic information of a Chinese company include:
* Hope to produce in China and you are looking for a Chinese manufacturer;
* Hope to have a distribution partner to sell your products on the Chinese market;
* Hope to license your technology to a Chinese company;
* Hope to engage in R&D with a Chinese company;
* Considering entering into a joint venture or a merger and acquisition;
* You have discovered the name and location of a company that infringes upon your IP, and you want to know more about that company, for example their address, information
about their shareholders, or the amount of their registered capital, in order to decide if you want to take action to enforce your intellectual property rights.
This guide will provide you with information on how to obtain the information from the database, what the information means and how you can use the information.
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