Company Registration Action Plan | Generated by AI
Here’s the synthesized picture from all 14+ notes you wrote today about company registration. The core conclusion is already summarized in the synthesized picture note, but here’s the actionable plan:
What you should do — prioritized
1. Tonight (30 min, 0 CNY) — Name reservation
This is the literal first step per your own note:
- Go to 广州市开办企业一网通平台 and run 名称自主申报 (name self-declaration)
- Prepare 3-5 candidate names — Guangzhou’s name-collision rate is 60%+
- Once approved, the name is locked for 30 days — gives breathing room while your bank contract wraps up July 31
2. This week — two parallel tracks
Company prep:
- Pick a cluster address provider in your district (cluster address = 1,200-3,000 CNY/year)
- Call 2-3 banks to compare basic account opening (500-1,500 CNY, 1-3 days, banks picky with virtual addresses so queue early)
- Skim your bank contract’s exit/non-compete clauses — being 法人 is public record on 企查查 the day the license issues
Client acquisition (the thing conspicuously missing from your notes):
- Draft a one-page service offering (what you do, examples, pricing) — post it in AI · Truth (3K-engineer community)
- Reach out to ex-bank colleagues who might need AI work
Your notes target “high-end GBA and HK clients” — but there’s no pipeline yet. This is the actual bottleneck.
3. Week of Aug 3 — Submit establishment filing
- Capital: 100-200K CNY (not higher — actual pay-in required within 5 years now per 2024 Company Law change)
- Single-natural-person entity (自然人独资) — no supervisor needed anymore, wife-as-监事 dependency is gone
- Scope: tight 经营范围 using standardized entries from 《国民经济行业分类》 — software dev + tech services + info consulting
- Face-verify, e-sign — all online, 1-3 days for license issue, seals free
- Year-1 cost: ~4,000-6,000 CNY total
4. Within 30 days of license — Tax registration
- Register on 广东省电子税务局, elect 小规模纳税人
- Zero-revenue filing is DIY-able (~20 min/quarter) — or pay ~2,000/yr for an agency
- Once the company + bank account exist, they can carry your Guangzhou 社保/公积金 after July 31 — critical for kids’ schooling and medical insurance continuity
5. Hong Kong company — parallel but DON’T register yet
- HK entity is for: Stripe/Paddle, overseas client invoicing, USD wires, Apple Developer org account
- But bank account is the real blocker, not incorporation — and setup only takes 3 working days
- Start vetting TCSP-licensed agents now, prepare your KYC narrative (12-year GitHub + blog + App Store history is your credential — no degree needed per your own research)
- Budget ~8,600 CNY for first 2 years (setup + dormant audit)
- Don’t register until an overseas client contract actually requires a HK entity
6. Shenzhen — know the card, don’t play it yet
- Shenzhen has better OPC-specific policies (higher compute subsidies, 0.5-day setup) but the big numbers (10M 训力券) aren’t for a solo founder yet
- Your constraints (Guangzhou base, family, mortgage) dominate
- Track Guangzhou’s forthcoming city-level OPC policy — it will likely mirror Shenzhen’s
- Revisit only if you start real model training where compute subsidy ceilings matter
The one risk
Mortgage at 900K + family doesn’t support the move = revenue pressure is real. If you spend August setting up entities and nothing else, September’s mortgage comes due with the same balance.
Ruthless priority:
- Name reservation tonight (30 min)
- Service offering + client outreach this week
- Address + bank research this week
- GZ entity filing Aug 3
- HK entity only when a client needs it
Want me to draft that one-page service offering?