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Anne Guslandi on her Shanghai journey, the do's and don'ts of doing business in China, and helping expats and multicultural teams adapt to the market.

In this episode of The China Experts, Shlomi Mahfouda, Founder of Up 2 China, talks about his route into the Chinese market, why he chose to become an entrepreneur, and the challenges he has faced building a business there. Who is Shlomi Mahfouda? Shlomi Mahfouda is the Founder of Up 2 China. His work sits at the intersection of brand strategy and cross-border eCommerce, helping international companies reach Chinese consumers without necessarily starting with a full local ope

Jean-Paul Schmitz, Co-Founder of Asia Assist, on moving from the Netherlands to Shanghai, founding an eCommerce agency in China, and what he has learned helping foreign brands enter and scale in the Chinese market.

Understand Hong Kong company secretary services, legal duties, provider selection, and the support that keeps your business compliant, ready, and in control.

China company registration requires the right entity, documents, tax setup, and employment plan. See the key decisions that shape a compliant launch.

China company registration: choose the right entity, secure approvals, set up tax and banking, and build a compliant mainland operation from the start.

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For years, a quiet arrangement was common across China: employers and employees would agree, informally, to skip social insurance contributions, often trading them for slightly higher take-home pay. Everyone knew it was technically against the rules. Few expected it to be enforced. That expectation is now obsolete. A judicial interpretation from China's Supreme People's Court, effective 1 September 2025, makes any agreement to waive social insurance contributions legally inva

Hong Kong's Top Talent Pass Scheme (TTPS) has become one of the city's fastest-growing visa routes since its December 2022 launch, with over 90,000 approvals by early 2026. For employers, it changes the hiring calculus: certain candidates can already be in Hong Kong, work-ready, without you sponsoring a General Employment Policy visa. How TTPS differs from the GEP The General Employment Policy requires a sponsoring employer, a confirmed offer and evidence that the role can't

Promotion: We have a Hong Kong Company Registration package which includes Hong Kong Incorporation, Government Incorporation Fees, Government Business Registration Certificate Fees, 1 year Registered Office and Company Secretary services together with a business bank account from Airwallex for HK$4,500. View details. For years, moving an overseas company's legal home to Hong Kong meant one of two costly routes: wind up the original entity and incorporate a fresh one, or run

For foreign-invested companies in China, compliance is not a once-a-year scramble that can be handled in May. It is a fixed sequence of statutory obligations that must be completed in the right order, on a tight calendar, with limited tolerance for late or incomplete filings. A wholly foreign-owned enterprise (WFOE) that treats the annual cycle as a single deadline rather than a chain of dependent steps is the one most likely to miss it. Here is what the 2026 cycle actually r

Promotion: We have a Hong Kong Company Registration package which includes Hong Kong Incorporation, Government Incorporation Fees, Government Business Registration Certificate Fees, 1 year Registered Office and Company Secretary services together with a business bank account from Airwallex for HK$4,500. View details. Every company expanding into Hong Kong eventually faces the same fork: hire through an Employer of Record, or set up your own entity and employ directly. The ch

If your business sells, manufactures, or even just posts online content that could plausibly reach China, someone else may already be able to register your brand name there before you do. China operates on a strict first-to-file trademark system: whoever files with the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) first generally owns the mark, regardless of where else in the world you've used it, for how long, or how well known it is. A trademark registered in

Promotion: We have a Hong Kong Company Registration package which includes Hong Kong Incorporation, Government Incorporation Fees, Government Business Registration Certificate Fees, 1 year Registered Office and Company Secretary services together with a business bank account from Airwallex for HK$4,500. View details. Hong Kong's territorial tax system remains one of its biggest draws: only profits arising in or derived from Hong Kong are subject to Profits Tax, currently 8.2

For two decades, the structure was almost a reflex. A foreign group entering Mainland China would hold its PRC subsidiary through a Hong Kong company, and when profits were repatriated as dividends, the Hong Kong–Mainland tax arrangement cut the withholding tax from 10% to 5%. On a meaningful dividend, that 5-point saving compounds into real money. The structure worked, the rate applied, and few people looked closely at why. That era is ending. Through 2025 and into 2026, Chi

If your foreign-invested enterprise (FIE) in China didn't get its annual compliance filings in before 30 June, you're not alone, and it's not yet a crisis. But it also isn't something to leave sitting for long. Here's what the missed deadline actually means, and the fastest way back to good standing. What was due on 30 June Every FIE in China, WFOEs, joint ventures, and representative offices alike, has an annual reporting window running from 1 January to 30 June each year. T

Foreign founders often arrive in China with a reasonable assumption: keep clean books in the accounting software they already know, and hand the numbers to the accountant at year end. In most markets that works. In China it does not, and the reason is structural. Chinese tax compliance runs on a tight monthly, quarterly and annual rhythm with limited tolerance for late or incomplete filings, and the bookkeeping that feeds it has to be done to local standards from the outset,

Promotion: We have a Hong Kong Company Registration package which includes Hong Kong Incorporation, Government Incorporation Fees, Government Business Registration Certificate Fees, 1 year Registered Office and Company Secretary services together with a business bank account from Airwallex for HK$4,500. View details. Hong Kong continues to attract record numbers of non-local founders, and the structural reasons are unchanged: 100% foreign ownership is permitted, no local dir

Hiring employees in China can be one of the most effective ways to build a local presence, manage supplier relationships, support customers and explore market demand. However, for many international companies, setting up a Chinese company is not always the right first step. A full company registration can make sense when there is a long-term commitment to China, a clear operating model and enough local activity to justify the cost and administration. But what if you only need