To proceed the change of company name, you shall conduct a name availability search with the competent registry office first. An approval for the new company name shall be obtained before you apply for the change of company name with the competent registry office. Upon receipt of the approval for the new company name, you shall go through the following procedures:

On 1 January 2020, the Foreign Investment Law of the PRC came into effect and replaced the Law of the PRC on Chinese-Foreign Equity Joint Ventures, the Law of the PRC on Chinese-Foreign Contractual Joint Ventures and the Law of the PRC on Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprises. Since then, foreign invested enterprises in China are no longer divided into sino-foreign equity joint ventures, sino-foreign contractual joint ventures or wholly foreign owned enterprises