Legal basis: Regulations on Administration of Registration of Industrial and Commercial Enterprises
Article 2 The following production and business units (hereinafter referred to as industrial and commercial enterprises) in industry, transportation, construction, commerce, foreign trade, catering, service, tourism, handicrafts and repair industries shall register in accordance with the provisions of these Regulations:
(1) State-owned industrial and commercial enterprises;
(2) Cooperative camps under collective ownership and other industrial and commercial enterprises;
(3) Joint ventures or joint ventures;
(4) Industrial and commercial enterprises owned by railways, civil aviation, post and telecommunications departments and other public utilities.
Other industrial and commercial enterprises that the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government think need to be registered.