Welcome to invest and start a business in Beijing. To help you better understand the registration process for market entities, we provide you with the procedures for change registration for limited companies.

If your company falls into any of the following categories, you may apply to or consult the Municipal Administration for Market Regulation.

1. Central SOEs, foreign-invested enterprises, and other enterprises authorized for registration by the State Administration for Market Regulation;

2. Companies where the municipal state-owned asset supervision and administration authorities fulfill their responsibilities as investors, as well as those in which such companies hold more than 50% of the shares through investment;

3. Joint-stock companies established through public fundraising;

4. Enterprises that should be registered with the municipal authority in accordance with the law, administrative regulations, decisions of the State Council, and other relevant regulations.

If your company does not fall into the above categories, you can apply to or consult the Administration for Market Regulation in the district where your enterprise is registered.

Processing Procedures

1. Application and Acceptance

(1) The applicant shall submit business application documents at the service window of the government service hall.

(2) If the application can be accepted on the spot or meets the acceptance criteria after on-the-spot corrections, the authority will proceed directly to the acceptance step and issue an acceptance notice on the spot.

(3) If the application meets the acceptance criteria after corrections based on the one-time notification, an acceptance notice will be issued.

2. Review and Decision-making

(1) If the application documents are complete, comply with legal forms, conditions, and standards, and pass the review, the authority will make a decision to grant administrative licensing.

(2) If the application documents are incomplete, do not comply with legal forms, conditions, and standards, and fail the review, the authority will make a decision to deny administrative licensing.

3. Certification and Delivery

The business processing results can be collected at the window or delivered by mail.