Potential UK investors may select various vestment approaches in starting business in China. Mostly adopted direct investment ways are China-foreign joint ventures, China-foreign co-operative enterprises, wholly foreign-owned enterprises and cooperative development, and newly emerging BOT project, mergers and acquisition, compensation trade, and etc.

Sino-Foreign Joint Venture(SFJV)
Sino-foreign joint venture is an equity joint company to be established in China with joint investment from foreign investors and Chinese partners. Inventors become shareholders of the company incorporated similar as the company incorporated in the UK with the liability limited by shares.

Sino-Foreign Co-operative Venture (SFCV)
The major difference of SFCV to SFJV is that the investment from various sources will not be converted into equity of the company, and the returns from the investment will be specified by a co-operative contract.

Wholly-Owned Foreign Enterprises (WOFE)
WOFE allows British investors to solely and wholly own and operate the company in China, but with constrains, such as to bring advanced technology in to China or to export the proportion products manufactured to other countries, and etc.

Representative Offices in China
British companies may select to open a Representative Office in China for market research, post-sale services, pre-investment preparation prior to full commitment of their investment. The procedures for opening a Representative Office is simpler than forming a company.

CIPUK, together with its strategic partners, offers reliable and competitive services to assist British companies doing business with China.