[Basis]

The Administrative Licensing Law of the People's Republic of China, The Decision of the State Council on Reform of the Investment System (Guo Fa [2004] 20#) and Notice on Reform of the City's Investment Management System (Jin Zheng Fa [2004] 96#)

[ Conditions for applying administrative licensing ]

(1) Scope of applied projects: within the area, registration will be carried out for the investment projects of domestic-funded enterprises out of the state-promulgated Governmental Confirmed Investment Project Catalogue (abbreviated as Catalogue below) except the project banned for investment in the laws and regulations of the country. The enterprise's fixed assets investment project refers to the project invested by the citizens, legal persons or other organizations without using the governmental capital.

(2) Project handling authority extent: the fixed assets investment of domestic investment in the area.

[Materials needed]

(1) Project application company shall fill in Tianjin-based Enterprises' Fixed Assets Investment Projects Registration Application Form with the company's seal stamped on it.

(2) Copies of valid business license or relevant identification materials for the legal persons.
(3) Land Application Form for the project (provided by investment promotion department).
(4) Location Opinion Letter for the project to be established issued by the planning department and the land resource administrative department shall be issued, and Pre-review Report for Constructive-use Land shall be issued for the confiscation of cultivated land.

(5) Development Qualification Certificate shall be obtained for real estate development project.
(6) Land Use Right Transfer Contract shall be offered for the projects with the land use right obtained through bidding, auction or listed selling.
(7) Other documents shall be offered according to relevant laws and regulations.

[Procedures]

•  Project application company shall fill in Tianjin-based Enterprises' Fixed Assets Investment Projects Registration Application Form with the company's seal stamped on it and offer relevant attachments.

•  Comprehensive Economy Bureau shall review the project registration status within one working day and go through registration procedures.

•  Comprehensive Economy Bureau shall not register the projects not in the registration scope or not qualified in application materials. The reasons for the failure of registration shall be notified to the applicants within one working day upon the reception of the application materials, attachments and opinions of relevant departments.

[Time limit]

Completed within one working day for applicants with full documents.

[Address]

Room 415, International Trade Service Center , 1# Tongda Square , Tianjin Harbor Bonded Area

[Department]

Comprehensive Economy Bureau, Tianjin Harbor Bonded Area

Undertaken by ： Li Jinhui, Tang Bin

Tel ： 25761305 25763837

[Basis]

The Administrative Licensing Law of the People's Republic of China, The Decision of the State Council on Reform of the Investment System (Guo Fa [2004] 20#) and Notice on Reform of the City's Investment Management System (Jin Zheng Fa [2004] 96#)

[ Conditions for applying administrative licensing ]

(1) Scope of applied projects: within the area, confirmation will be carried out for the investment projects of domestic-funded enterprises listed in the state-promulgated Governmental Confirmed Investment Project Catalogue (abbreviated as Catalogue below). The enterprise's fixed assets investment project refers to the project invested by the citizens, legal persons or other organizations without using the governmental capital.

(2) Project handling authority extent: projects confirmed by the country according to the Catalogue and projects confirmed by the area according to Tianjin Municipal Government Confirmed Investment and Project Management Authority Extent. For those above the area's confirmation extent, the area will forward to Tinjin Development and Reform Commission (TDRC) or to the state via TDRC for confirmation.

[Materials needed]

(1) Project Application Report (Compiled by institutions with corresponding project consultancy qualifications).

(2) Project application company shall fill in Tianjin-based Enterprises' Fixed Assets Investment Projects Confirmation Application Form with the company's seal stamped on it.
(3) Land Application Form for the project (provided by investment promotion department).

(4) Location Opinion Letter for the project to be established issued by the planning department and the land resource administrative department shall be issued, and Pre-review Report on Constructive-use Land shall be issued for the confiscation of cultivated land.

(5) Opinions from environmental protection authorities to papers on Environment Influence Evaluation

(6) Other documents shall be offered according to relevant laws and regulations.

[Procedures]

(1) Project application company shall fill in Tianjin-based Enterprises' Fixed Assets Investment Projects Confirmation Application Form with the company's seal stamped on it and offer relevant attachments.
(2) Comprehensive Economy Bureau shall review the project application report within one working day and go through confirmation procedures.

(3) Comprehensive Economy Bureau shall not confirm the projects not in the confirmation scope or not qualified in application materials. The reasons for the failure of confirmation shall be notified to the applicants within one working day upon the reception of the application materials, attachments and opinions of relevant departments.
(4) Concerning the confirmed projects, the project applicants shall timely report to the confirmation authorities for the changes of construction scale, main construction contents, product technical plans and construction locations etc. in written form. And the confirmation authorities shall issue written confirmation or request a re-handling of confirmation procedures.

[Time limit]

Completed within one working day for applicants with full documents.

[Address]

Room 415, International Trade Service Center , 1# Tongda Square , Tianjin Harbor Bonded Area

[Department]

Comprehensive Economy Bureau, Tianjin Harbor Bonded Area

Undertaken by ： Li Jinhui, Tang Bin

Tel ： 25761305 25763837

[Basis]

The Administrative Licensing Law of the People's Republic of China, Provisions on Guiding the Orientation of Foreign Investment (State Council Order No. 346), , The Decision of the State Council on Reform of the Investment System (Guo Fa [2004] 20#) and Notice on Reform of the City's Investment Management System (Jin Zheng Fa [2004] 96#)

[ Conditions for applying administrative licensing ]

(1) Scope of applied projects: projects attract foreign investments in the manners of sino-foreign joint ventures, sino-foreign cooperation, foreign solely investments, foreign companies' acquisitions of domestic enterprises (equity or assets) and investment expansion of foreign-invested enterprises.

(2) Project handling authority extent:

According to the classification in the Catalogue for the Guidance of Foreign Investment Industries, the projects listed in the category of encouragement and permission with total investment (including additional investment) below 100 million USD will be confirmed by the area. Concerning the key investment projects in social welfare fields involving city-wide unified planning and balancing, TDRC shall be consulted before confirmation. According to the classification in the Catalogue for the Guidance of Foreign Investment Industries, all the projects listed in the category of restriction and harbor projects with investment below 50 million USD shall be first reviewed and approved by the area and then forwarded to TDRC for confirmation.
According to the classification in the Catalogue for the Guidance of Foreign Investment Industries, the projects listed in the category of encouragement and permission with total investment (including additional investment) of and above 100 million USD and the projects listed in the category of restriction with total investment (including additional investment) of and above 50 million USD shall be first reviewed and approved by the area and then forwarded to the state by TDRC for confirmation.

[Materials needed]

•  Project Application Report

•  Project application company shall fill in Tianjin-based Foreign Business Investment Projects Confirmation Application Form with the company's seal stamped on it.
(3) Land Application Form for the project (provided by investment promotion department).
(4) Enterprise Registration Certificates (Business Licenses), Business Registration Certificates, Updated Enterprise Fiscal Statements (including Balance Sheet, Income Sheet and statement of cash flow) and capital verification reports from the opening banks (for projects to be approved by the state) of project investors.

(5) Investment Proposal, resolution of the company's board for investment-expansion and acquisition projects.
(6) Letter of Intent for Financing issued by banks for projects need bank loans.

(7) Location Opinion Letter for the project issued by the planning and administrative authorities according to their authority limits.
(8) Pre-review Report on Constructive-use Land issued by the administrative authorities for national land resources (For projects need to be confirmed by the state, this Report shall be issued by provincial or state-level administrative authorities for national land resources.)

(9) Opinions from environmental protection authorities to papers on Environment Influence Evaluation. (For projects need to be confirmed by the state, the Opinions shall be issued by provincial or state-level administrative authorities for environmental protection.)

(10) For projects with investment forms of state-owned assets or land use right, confirmation documents from relevant authorities according to their administration range are required.
(11) Other documents shall be offered according to relevant laws and regulations.

[Procedures]

Project application company shall fill in Tianjin-based Foreign Business Investment Projects Confirmation Application Form with the company's seal stamped on it and offer relevant attachments.
(2) Comprehensive Economy Bureau shall review the project application report and relevant documents within one working day and go through confirmation procedures.
(3) Comprehensive Economy Bureau shall not confirm the projects not in the confirmation scope or not qualified in application materials. The reasons for the failure of confirmation shall be notified to the applicants within one working day upon the reception of the application materials, attachments and opinions of relevant departments.

[Time limit]

Completed within one working day for applicants with full documents.

[Address]

Room 415, International Trade Service Center , 1# Tongda Square , Tianjin Harbor Bonded Area

[Department]

Comprehensive Economy Bureau, Tianjin Harbor Bonded Area

Undertaken by ： Li Jinhui, Tang Bin

Tel ： 25761305 25763837

[Basis]

The Administrative Licensing Law of the People's Republic of China, Provisions on Guiding the Orientation of Foreign Investment (State Council Order No. 346), , The Decision of the State Council on Reform of the Investment System (Guo Fa [2004] 20#) and Notice on Reform of the City's Investment Management System (Jin Zheng Fa [2004] 96#)

[ Conditions for applying administrative licensing ]

(1) Scope of applied projects:

Domestic investment entity obtains the full or part ownership, management rights and other related benefits and interests from overseas enterprises(or projects) through the input of currency, securities, real goods, intellectual properties or technology, stock rights, creditor's rights and assets or benefits and rights or the offer of assurance.
(2) Project handling authority extent: Resource exploration overseas investment projects with China party's investment of 30 million USD and above shall be forwarded to NDRC for confirmation with TDRC's review opinions attached.
 Non-resource exploration overseas investment projects with China party's investment of 10 million USD and above shall be forwarded to NDRC for confirmation with TDRC's review opinions attached.
All the investment projects to Taiwan or the countries having not established diplomatic relations with PRC shall be forwarded to NDRC for confirmation with TDRC's review opinions attached.
Concerning overseas bidding or acquisition projects, the investment entity shall give a written report about the issue to TDRC before the official start of bidding and other business activities. After getting the review opinions of TDRC, it will be reported to NDRC and obtain relevant confirmation correspondence issued by the Commission.
All other projects except those need to be reported to NDRC for confirmation shall be confirmed by TDRC and reported to NDRC for filing.

[Materials needed]

•  Project Application Report

•  Project application company shall fill in Tianjin Overseas Investment Projects Confirmation Application Form with the company's seal stamped on it.

•  Resolution of the company's board or relevant investment resolution.

•  Documents for prove the asset, operation and credit situations of China and foreign parties.

•  Financing Letter of Intent issued by banks.

(6) For the investment in the forms of securities, real goods, intellectual properties or technology, stock rights, creditor's rights and assets or benefits and rights, the investment amount shall be calculated based on the evaluation value of assets benefits and rights or the fair value. Assets evaluation report issued by qualified CPA, assets evaluation offices or other agencies or other 3 rd party documents capable to prove relevant assets benefits and rights values shall be presented.

(7) Letter of Intent or Framework Agreement and other documents signed by China and foreign parties for project bidding, acquisition, joint investment or cooperation.
(8) For overseas project bidding or acquisition, relevant confirmation correspondence issued by NDRC to the investor's project information report shall be attached.
(9) Other documents shall be offered according to relevant laws and regulations.

[Procedures]

•  Project application company shall fill in Tianjin Overseas Investment Projects Confirmation Application Form with the company's seal stamped on it and offer relevant attachments.

•  Comprehensive Economy Bureau shall review and approve the project application report within one working day and forward to TDRA or the state via TDRA for confirmation.

•  If the application documents are believed not complete or unqualified, the applicants shall be fully notified within one working day upon the reception of the application reports and attachments to clarify, add or adjust relevant situations or contents.

[Time limit]

Completed within one working day for applicants with full documents.

[Address]

Room 415, International Trade Service Center , 1# Tongda Square , Tianjin Harbor Bonded Area

[Department]

Comprehensive Economy Bureau, Tianjin Harbor Bonded Area

Undertaken by ： Li Jinhui, Tang Bin

Tel ： 25761305 25763837