Frequently Asked Questions

HainanInc is a corporate advisory group that helps foreign capital and executives establish, operate, and grow a presence in the Hainan Free Trade Port — spanning entity formation, Free Trade Port incentives, immigration, employment, trademark protection, and ongoing compliance.

Both. We serve private wealth principals relocating or restructuring personally, and corporate entities establishing or operating a Hainan presence — under the same engagement model either way.

We also operate from Sanya. Both offices run on the same team and the same documented compliance calendar rather than independent regional desks, so a client's engagement doesn't depend on which office happens to be handling it.

We run the compliance calendar, review what is prepared, and remain your point of contact — but the books and the tax filings themselves are carried by a licensed bookkeeping firm. Keeping another company's statutory books and filing its returns are licensed activities in mainland China, and we do not hold that licence. Each affected service page names the licence and says which part is ours.

A licensed labour dispatch provider is, not HainanInc. Acting as the legal employer of another company's staff is a licensed activity in mainland China; we select and manage the provider, reconcile each payroll cycle, and handle the relationship, while they carry the employment, social insurance, and housing fund obligations. Chinese law also restricts which roles can be filled this way and caps dispatched headcount, so we test your hiring plan against those limits before an offer goes out rather than after.

The Free Trade Port's preferential regimes — a reduced corporate income tax rate for enterprises in encouraged industries, a capped individual income tax rate for qualifying talent, and duty exemptions under the zero-tariff lists. None are automatic: each depends on eligibility conditions the entity has to meet at the outset and keep meeting, substantive operation in Hainan being the main one. Assessing whether they are genuinely available to a given business is its own practice area for us.

With a confidential assessment of your objectives, capital structure, and jurisdictional exposure, followed by a written proposal setting out entity structure, timeline, and fee architecture — presented for your approval before any engagement begins.

A briefing on the regulatory, banking, and substance requirements shaping foreign entry into the Free Trade Port. Request a copy through our enquiry form and we will confirm scope before sending it.

Milestone-based, scoped in writing before work begins. Government disbursements are billed at cost and itemised separately. Engagements typically start with a paid strategic consultation before any structuring work is scoped.

English and Mandarin Chinese are our working languages, and both are used for documentation and correspondence. Where a matter requires another language, we arrange certified translation rather than claiming in-house capability.

We never publish client names. The engagements described on this site are composite accounts drawn from work of that type, with identifying details removed. During an initial consultation we can talk through examples closer to your own circumstances.

More than ceasing to trade. Deregistration runs through a liquidation committee and shareholder resolutions, a creditor announcement period, tax clearance, and the surrender of the entity's licences, chops, bank accounts, and registrations. Tax clearance is the stage that determines the timeline, because the authority reviews the entity's filing history rather than processing a single application. Until the process completes the registration stays open and its obligations keep falling due, so an abandoned entity is not a closed one.

The individual named in that role, personally. A Chinese entity's legal representative can bind it, and their own name attaches to its conduct in a way a non-executive director's name in a home jurisdiction does not. The role is often filled by whoever was available at formation, without that person being briefed on what they accepted — so we brief the individual before they are named, and set out what replacing them later actually requires.

No. We advise on the role, brief the person taking it, and prepare the appointment and change filings, but we do not sit in it. Occupying the role is a standing personal exposure rather than a service line, and a practice that took it on for a fee would be selling the appearance of governance rather than governance itself.