Office Requirement for Setting up a New Company
Office serves mostly for the purpose of business operation, and it is one of the preconditions in business registration. You can find the registration address by yourself, or we can also provide you the registration address in economic zone.
1. On the Shanghai Certificate of Real Estate Ownership of the office building, the noted usage of the building shall be “for office purpose” (“办” in Chinese for your reference). You need to keep a copy of the Certificate with the chop of the owner on it.
2. You need to sign an official leasing contract with a term of more than 1 year with the leaser
3. If the office is rented through sub-leasing, the owner of the office shall issue a written consent on the sub-leasing.
Moreover, for manufacturing WFOE, you will need to apply the following two certificates in the name of the new company before the application for business license:
1. Fire safety certificate
2. Pollutant discharge permit
And for food and beverage WFOE, food sanitation license is needed besides the above two certificates.
If you want to use the registration address which we provide in economic zone, the address will be the virtual address, but this address will be free. The economic zone will provide us the leasing agreement and Shanghai ownership certificate, then we can handle all the process of setting up the WFOE. Such as prepare the docs which the government needed, name check, get the business license and etc. But an actual operational address is still recommended, if you need to apply for working visa & residence permit and/or your business requires office inspection by Tax bureau.