由Dalida Turkovic

图片北京在90年代初期： 共产主义强的视觉出现在典型的庭院样式住房(在块安置的12个家庭被建立在一个中央围场附近)，灰色毛衣服到处，几乎氖在街道给标志和仅偶尔的汽车和微型货车做广告。 在那些日子里有二货币： 元和FEC (外汇货币)仅可利用对外国人，以更低的交换率比元(1$=8.9yuan， 1$=7.4FEC)。 强的政府控制，恶化由最近事件在天安门广场，意味知道中国人民是 几乎不可能-他们未允许进入旅馆和，因此有对外国物品和生活方式的暴露，只是可利用的在旅馆。

90年代中期给中国带来了新看法和可能性。 私有制在生活方式和迅速扩展兴旺，带来隔夜改变在汽车工业，服务行业，街道做广告和不动产。 外国人想要利用设定一家私人企业许多机会在中国遭遇中国法律出席的障碍山。 外国人被允许开始事务的唯一的方式是与一个地方人合伙，会必须有归属和所有法定权利一个主要份额。 In order to apply, the name approval, acceptance from MOFTEC (the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Cooperation) and tons of other paperwork all had to be legally registered, which would take many months and was often dependant on how good guanxi (relationship building) your Chinese partner had with local authorities.

The beginning of the 21st Century brought further developments. The previously tedious business registration process could now be done by various consulting agencies, providing this service for a minimum sum in a much shorter time. The easiest way of setting up a company was to apply as a consultancy service, which term covered such a broad spectrum that it effectively allowed the individual to explore business opportunities according to the market growth. Three options became available:
- Full Chinese ownership for the investment of 100,000 yuan
- Joint venture with 51-49% ratio in favor of the Chinese partner for the same amount.
- Full foreign ownership (WOFE: Wholly Owned Foreign Enterprise) for $100,000
At this period China was still looking at limiting market growth to businesses with ’serious’ investment, although services for setting up ones own business were much improved and once the business was up and running the only further legal obligation was to pay taxes.

The year 2005 brought in yet more changes and China continues to relax its need for control. Setting up a consulting company now takes only a few months. With a small amount of paperwork and a minimum of $10,000, you can own the business in China, as long as it is already registered abroad, with a Hong Kong bank account. The second step would be to hire an accountant (part-time if necessary) and open a mainland China bank account. For office space, you can run your business from home as long as the real estate management has a licence for such services or if you own the apartment. So, these days you are pretty much free to find your own way, use your own guanxi and explore the many opportunities in the land of dragons.

Copyright 2006 Dalida Turkovic

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Dalida Turkovic - Master Coach and Master NLP Practitioner has lived and worked in China since 1990. Please visit her business coaching website Small Steps Coaching and her blog at Life Coaching First Steps.