So, the work permit, which was considered in the previous post “Official employment of a foreigner in China” and which you have received, will soon expire and you now need to extend it. Let’s take a look at its prolongation in this article. Now then, obviousl...

According to the legislation of the PRC, registration on any web portal or service requires the user to be identified as a real person. In this article we will discuss how to do this, what is required for this and what consequences it entails. On May 18, 2004, regulations were...

In all cases when the company needs to transfer money to the employee for something (besides the salary), s/he must report on spending. In this article, we will go over the entire process in detail. In total, there are two options: The company in advance transfers money...

Big China is understood to comprise four regions – the PRC itself, two SAR (special administrative region) – Hong Kong and Macau, as well as Taiwan, which is not a country de jure. So, in terms of the status of an individual within the state, the situation is...

In July 2018, the State Council of the People’s Republic of China issued a decree to conduct the fourth national economic census (第四次全国经济普查). There is nothing complicated in it, but the documents and materials related to the census use many terms and concepts that...

One of the most annoying things at work is the process of preparing an expenses report. Regular expense reports (报销 单) always take one raw in a report table. But after you return from somewhere, say, a business trip, or after meeting guests, you get tons of taxi bills and pr...