- Asia
- China
Asia
China
Company data from the China business register, through the Topograph API.
Topograph reads CreditChina (National Enterprise Credit Information) and Chinese business-data platform (through our local partner) and returns the company profile, legal representatives, shareholders and ultimate beneficial owners of China companies through one API.
What comes back for each datapoint and document, as on the coverage matrix.
Every request is a full register read, in verification mode.
Datapoints
- Company profileYes
- Legal representativesYes
- ShareholdersBy hand
- Ultimate beneficial ownersBy hand
Documents
- Register extractYes
- Articles of associationNo
- FinancialsNo
- UBO extractBy hand
- 企业信用信息报告 (CreditChina Credit Report)
- 股东信息报告 (Commercial Shareholder Report)
- 受益所有人报告 (Commercial Beneficial Owner Report)
A company profile typically comes back from the register in 60 s in verification mode.
These are typical observations, not a service-level commitment: set your timeouts well above them.
The registers this country’s data comes from. Secondary sources only enrich or check what the registers return.
National Enterprise Credit Information Publicity System, the official Chinese business credit register
- Chinese business-data platform (through our local partner)
Commercial Chinese business-data platform that compiles national business register filings, including the full shareholder list (股东信息) and the beneficial owner list that CreditChina does not publish. Its reports are retrieved by our local partner and are not official register certificates.
- GLEIF (Legal Entity Identifiers)Secondary
Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation – Legal Entity Identifier reference data
Request a company by its Unified Social Credit Code (统一社会信用代码) as the id, with countryCode set to CN. Its format, validation rules and an example value are in the full reference.
The full reference covers how each datapoint is sourced and mapped, the vocabularies the API returns, the documents you can order and exact example responses. It is free with a Topograph account.
- Identifiers and formats2
- Search patterns4
- Quirks8
- Legal forms23
- Officer roles3
- Company statuses10
- Documents3
- Example responses6