A briefing on the regulatory, banking, and substance requirements shaping foreign entry into the Free Trade Port, covering capital routing, entity formation, and the substance tests a new presence has to meet in its first year — drawn from the same filings, renewal calendars, and client engagements our practice runs on day to day, not from published guidance alone.
What's inside
Capital routing and banking
What actually changes when RMB capital moves through a Hainan entity — the foreign exchange control and banking compliance considerations that determine how quickly capital clears and what documentation a bank will ask for before it does.
Entity formation and substance
The structuring decisions made at formation that determine what licences are available later, how capital can move, and what ongoing reporting an entity carries for the rest of its life under economic substance rules.
Work authorisation and relocation
Where avoidable status lapses actually happen in the executive visa and work permit renewal cycle, and what a documented filing plan looks like in practice rather than in the brochure version of the process.
Our services
Our practice areas cover the whole life of a foreign-owned presence in Hainan — from the feasibility assessment made before anything is filed, through formation and licensing, payroll, tax and ongoing compliance, to the deregistration that closes an entity properly — alongside the Free Trade Port incentives that are the reason to be here rather than anywhere else in China. One engagement model means a single accountable team across all of them.
