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Commercial Intelligence & Market Research in China
Research on a new country, sector or customer base, focused on the decision you need to make. In China, that means local law, local regulators and local practice, handled by a qualified professional who practises there.
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03Identify competitors, channels and counterparties
04Turn market evidence into an actionable entry or growth decision
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Roberto Gilardino is Regional Partner at Horizons, supervising the advisory’s activities in North Asia as well as additional countries (including Mongolia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, UAE, Cyprus and Malta).
What Commercial Intelligence & Market Research involves in China
The topics from the China guide that this work depends on.
Key facts
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Corporate income tax
25% standard; 5% effective on first CNY 3m for small low-profit enterprises (to 2027)
VAT
13% / 9% / 6%; VAT Law in force from 1 January 2026
Foreign ownership
Open except sectors on the 2024 negative list (29 items); manufacturing fully open
Investment framework
Foreign Investment Law, in force 1 January 2020
Exchange control
Managed by SAFE; current-account remittances need supporting documents
Data protection
Personal Information Protection Law, in force 1 November 2021
New York Convention
Party since 1987 (reciprocity and commercial reservations)
Working time
8 hours a day, 40 hours a week
The topics this work touches
Establish & Structure
Foreign investors set up foreign-invested enterprises under the Foreign Investment Law, which replaced the old joint venture and wholly foreign-owned enterprise laws in 2020. Whether a sector is open depends on the national negative list.
Our full guides are checked against official sources. Guides drafted with AI are marked as such. None of this is legal or tax advice.
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