China business, decoded

Doing business in and with China comes down to a handful of decisions — how to vet a supplier before you pay, whether you need a Chinese company at all, what it really costs to run one, how to protect your brand before someone else registers it, how to stay onside on tax residency, and how to move documents across a border. Everything below explains one of them in plain language, tied to the official rule.

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