China market entry · Beijing · Since 2018
From WFOE registration to monthly compliance, one English-speaking team in Beijing runs your China entity — incorporation, bookkeeping, tax, audit and IP — so it works as smoothly as your home office.
Bookkeeping licence — Beijing Municipal Finance Bureau
ICP filing 京ICP备2023007986号
Certified Public Accountants & Tax Agents on staff
Member, Beijing Certified Tax Agents Association
Six connected services, delivered by the same advisers. Start with registration, or hand us an entity that already exists and needs to be put in order.
WFOE, joint venture and representative office set-up, end to end.
ExploreMonthly bookkeeping, statutory reporting, tax filing and payroll.
ExploreHolding structures, VIE architecture and cross-border ownership.
ExploreIncentive capture, transfer pricing and cross-border optimisation.
ExploreStatutory audit, special-purpose review and asset valuation.
ExploreTrademarks, patents, copyright and enforcement strategy.
ExploreFind your situation
| Your situation | Registration | Bookkeeping | Structure & tax | Audit & valuation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entering China for the first timeNo entity yet | ✓ | — | If structure matters | — |
| You have a WFOE but cannot read the statements | — | ✓ | Case by case | ✓ |
| Raising capital or preparing to list | Case by case | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Repatriating dividends or transferring equity | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Tax bureau enquiry or risk alert received | — | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Applying for HNTE status or a government grant | — | Case by case | ✓ | ✓ |
Most engagements start with one column and grow into two. If you are not sure which applies, call and describe the situation — we will tell you what genuinely needs doing this quarter, including nothing.
Most problems we are hired to fix were avoidable at the structuring stage: the wrong entity type, a business scope that blocks invoicing, a capital contribution schedule nobody tracked. We are built to prevent that.
Group
TrustBridge is the international practice of 北京诚立会计（集团）有限公司, an accounting group headquartered in Beijing’s Tongzhou District.
About the groupRegistration, bookkeeping, tax, audit and IP sit under one roof. You are not passing documents between three vendors who have never spoken to each other.
Every deliverable — licences, ledgers, tax filings, board resolutions — is explained in plain English by a named adviser who signs your emails.
You receive a scope, a timeline and a fee before work starts. Government charges are passed through at cost with receipts.
Books maintained to PRC GAAP and audit-ready standards, so a parent-company audit, a bank review or a tax inspection does not become a fire drill.
What clients get in month one
No mystery phases and no open-ended discovery. Each step has an owner, a deliverable and a date.
A call in English to map your business model, shareholders, capital plan and timeline. You leave with a written recommendation even if you never engage us.
We recommend WFOE, JV or RO, flag licensing risk, and confirm scope, duration and total cost in a signed engagement letter.
Name approval, business licence, seals, bank account and tax registration — handled by our Beijing team with weekly status updates.
Bookkeeping, VAT and CIT filings, payroll, annual audit and licence renewals continue on a fixed monthly fee.
Names withheld under client confidentiality; details verified with permission.
500+ companies registered · 50+ foreign-invested clients
19 working days
A German industrial-automation supplier needed a Beijing entity before a framework contract expired. Name approval, licence, seals, RMB and USD accounts and tax registration were completed in 19 working days against a 6-week plan.
0 penalties
A US e-commerce brand arrived with 14 months of unbooked sales, missing invoices and two dormant bank accounts. We reconstructed the ledgers, filed the backlog, negotiated the late-filing position and closed the exposure with no administrative penalty.
6 weeks
A Singapore fund held three Chinese subsidiaries through a single HK company with mismatched equity. We redesigned the chain, documented the transfer-pricing policy and completed the equity transfers inside six weeks.
“They answered the questions our lawyers could not, in language our board could act on. The registration itself was almost boring — which is exactly what we wanted.”
Managing Director
German industrial automation group, Beijing
“We had been with a local agent for three years and never received a report in English. TrustBridge rebuilt our books in six weeks and now sends a one-page dashboard every month.”
Group CFO
Dutch consumer brand, Shanghai
“The transfer-pricing file they prepared survived a full audit without adjustment. That single piece of work paid for the whole engagement.”
Finance Director
Singapore-held manufacturer, Suzhou
If yours is not here, call +86 400 098 9866 — we answer structure questions without a fee.
+86 400 098 9866Yes. In most sectors a foreign investor can hold 100% of a wholly foreign-owned enterprise (WFOE); China’s negative list now restricts foreign ownership in only a small number of industries. We confirm your specific business scope against the current negative list before registration, because the classification determines whether you need a partner, a special licence, or nothing at all.
A standard WFOE in Beijing takes four to six weeks from name approval to an operating bank account. The critical path is usually the business-scope review and the bank’s know-your-customer process, not the licence itself, which is typically issued within three to five working days of a complete filing.
No. Registration can be completed remotely with a notarised and apostilled power of attorney plus legalised shareholder documents. A director or legal representative does not have to be a Chinese national, and bank accounts can be opened with video verification at most major banks.
Bookkeeping is RMB 200 per month for a small-scale taxpayer and RMB 400 per month for a general taxpayer — RMB 2,400 and 4,800 a year respectively. A full finance-function retainer with payroll and management reporting is RMB 1,200 per month. Company registration starts at RMB 2,500, and the statutory annual audit is quoted separately, from around RMB 6,000.
The entity is flagged as abnormal, invoicing is suspended, and the legal representative can be restricted from leaving China or from holding director roles in new companies. Remediation is possible but gets more expensive with time: back filings, late-payment surcharges of 0.05% per day and possible fines. It is always cheaper to file nil returns than to stop filing.
Next step
A 30-minute call in English, no obligation. We will tell you what your structure should look like, what it costs and how long it takes — including the parts other firms leave out.
