# China

Company data from the China business register, through the Topograph API.

## Overview

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.

## Coverage

What comes back for each datapoint and document, as on the coverage matrix.

Every request is a full register read, in verification mode.

| Datapoint | Returned |
| --- | --- |
| Company profile | Yes |
| Legal representatives | Yes |
| Shareholders | By hand |
| Ultimate beneficial owners | By hand |

| Document | Returned |
| --- | --- |
| Register extract | Yes |
| Articles of association | No |
| Financials | No |
| UBO extract | By hand |

### Documents, as the register names them

- 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)

### Speed

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.

## Sources

The registers this country’s data comes from. Secondary sources only enrich or check what the registers return.

- **[CreditChina (National Enterprise Credit Information)](https://creditchina.gov.cn)**: 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)](https://www.gleif.org/en/lei-data/gleif-golden-copy/download-the-golden-copy)** (secondary): Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation – Legal Entity Identifier reference data

## Identifiers

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 China 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.

| In the full reference | Entries |
| --- | --- |
| Identifiers and formats | 2 |
| Search patterns | 4 |
| Quirks | 8 |
| Legal forms | 23 |
| Officer roles | 3 |
| Company statuses | 10 |
| Documents | 3 |
| Example responses | 6 |

- Create a free account: https://www.topograph.co/sign-up?redirect_url=%2Fcountries%2Fcn
- Sign in: https://www.topograph.co/sign-in?redirect_url=%2Fcountries%2Fcn

With a session, https://www.topograph.co/countries/cn.md returns the full reference as Markdown. Assistants signed in to the [Topograph Wizard MCP](https://docs.topograph.co/guides/topograph-mcp) can read it there too.

## China business register guide

[China business register guide](https://www.topograph.co/guides/business-registers-in-china): how the register works, what it publishes and which documents it issues.

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Source: https://www.topograph.co/countries/cn