Application requirements

1 Application scope:

Sino-foreign joint ventures, Sino-foreign cooperation ventures, wholly foreign-owned enterprises, foreign investment partnership enterprises, domestic enterprises merged by foreign investors, capital increase and reinvestment projects of foreign-invested enterprises within the administrative regions of the municipality, and other foreign investment projects.

2 Acceptance authority:

Incentive projects implemented across regions (excluding Chinese holding or relative shareholding requirements) and allowing categories of projects should be put on record by the Municipal Development and Reform Commission. Incentive projects not implemented across regions (excluding Chinese holding or relative shareholding requirements) and allowing categories of projects should be put on record by the development and reform departments of districts and counties and the project record-filing departments of Binhai New Area and National Development Zone.

Required materials

All application materials must be in duplicate:

1. Tianjin Foreign Investment Project Record-filing Application Form.

2. The enterprise registration certificates from the project investors (business license).

3. Report of the investment intent, board resolution on the capital increase, merger and acquisition projects.

4. Projects that obtain land use rights through bidding, auction or listing should be provided with land use right transfer contract or confirmation of land transfer transaction.

5. Transfer documents from the district and county development and reform departments, and project approval departments of Binhai New Area and the National Development Zone.

6. Other documents in accordance with relevant laws and regulations.

Procedures

I. Applicants receive the Tianjin Foreign Investment Project Record-filing Application Form at the No 155 window, D hall on the second floor of the Administrative Licensing Service Center. (The application form can be downloaded online from www.tjxzxk.gov.cn);

II. Applicants hold the application materials to the Development and Reform Commission window, D hall on the second floor of the Administrative Licensing Service Center to start the joint approval process of investment projects. The staff will issue an investment project approval notice to the applicants. Applicants hold the notice and application materials to No 158 and No 159 windows on the second floor. After checking the application materials, the staff will offer the Receipt of Application Materials to the applicants;

III. After receiving the application materials, the staff will send them to the windows of the Development and Reform Commission. The application will immediately be handled once the staff reviewed the application materials; if the application materials are incomplete or do not conform to the statutory form; all the contents and standards that need to be corrected will be clearly informed to applicants at one time.

IV. The approval will be passed within seven work days and the applicants shall be informed to obtain the relevant approval documents. The reasons for not giving administrative permission shall be explained.

Window: D Hall, 2nd Floor, No 155 window of the Development and Reform Commission

Tel: +86-22-24538211

Add: No 79 Administrative Licensing Service Center, Hongxing Road, Hedong District, Tianjin (at the crossroad of Hongxing Road and Weiguo Road)

(This English version is only for reference. To learn more, please refer to the authoritative Chinese version.)