Registration of WOFE and Representative Office in Shanghai

Registration of establishment of Company and Representative Office in Shanghai

The following requirements shall be met to set up the Wholly Owned Foreign Enterprise and Representative Office in Shanghai:

Wholly Owned Foreign Enterprise (WOFE)

1¡¢ The investor shall be a well-established foreign company or natural person.

2¡¢ Having registered capital to launch the business. (normally more than USD140,000)

3¡¢ Having fixed premises for operation.

4¡¢ To comply with the Catalogue of Industries Guiding Foreign Investment.

Contact Raymond.L@aptsh.com to get the details.

Representative office in Shanghai (R.O)

1¡¢ The investor shall be a well-established foreign company.

2¡¢ Renting an office space in the appointed building which is for foreign companies. (about 500 appointed buildings in Shanghai)

3¡¢ The business scope is market studies or contacting the clients for its parent company only.

Contact Raymond.L@aptsh.com to get the details.

Discrimination in WOFE and R.O

	Investor	Registered capital	Registered address	Business scope	bank account
WOFE	Foreign company or natural person	More than USD140,000 usually	Office, industrial building, retail	Trading, consulting, manufacturing and so on	To charge for trading and services from clients
R.O	Foreign company	N/A	Office space in appointed buildings	market studies or contacting the clients for its parent company only	To charge with foreign exchange from parent company only

Registration details: enter www.corpsh.com for more information