Business licenses need to be declared lost in the newspaper, but you should go to the local industrial and commercial department to find out. Maybe you can reissue these licenses there without declaring lost in the newspaper.

If you are catering, you have to go to the health department to complete the formalities.

If you are grocery store and sell food, you need to go to the industrial and commercial department to apply for the Food Circulation Permit again. Because now it is the industrial and commercial department that issues certificates to the food circulation industry.

general steps:

1. First, publish a loss statement in your local newspaper at or above the prefecture level, with the content of "XXX business license and food hygiene license were accidentally lost on XX, XX, XX, and are now declared invalid".

2. Take the newspaper with the lost statement, bring the original copy of the business license, the original ID card and the copy to the place where you apply for a business license.

Fill out a form, and you will get a new business license in a few days.