In Wuhan, for example, it is legal to set up a specific company office in a residential villa, but it is not possible to set up a place of business that produces fumes, noise, odor pollution, and safety hazards. According to "Wuhan Interim Measures for the Registration and Management of Enterprise Residence (Business Premises)

The enterprises engaged in computer system services, data processing, software and information services, network services, cultural creativity, consulting and planning, animation and game design, e-commerce, translation services, industrial design, and equity investment of these 11 business projects, after submitting the certificate of property rights of the house and other materials, no need to submit proof of consent of interested parties, you can directly submit the certificate of consent of the person concerned. After submitting documents such as proof of housing ownership, enterprises can directly use residential premises as their residence (business premises) for registration, but only for "one address, one license".

The ground floor of a residential building whose planned use is residential and the residential building shall not be set up to produce fumes, noise, odor pollution and safety hazards such as catering, processing, entertainment, hotels, Internet cafes and other business premises.

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Local governments are allowing the registration of residential dwellings as business premises, but only with documents proving the consent of the interested owners. Some places have also conditionally liberalized the conditions for registering residences for business, such as Chongqing and Shaanxi, which stipulate that businesses engaged in specific industries (such as e-commerce, online trading services without physical stores, creativity, design, etc.) do not need to produce the consent of the owner's committee.

Local industry and commerce and market supervision departments have pushed the government to further study ways to simplify residence registration, improve operability, and allow convenient modes such as "one address, multiple licenses", "one license, multiple addresses" and "cluster registration". On the basis of allowing "one address, multiple licenses", "one license, multiple addresses", "cluster registration" and other convenient modes, further releasing and utilizing various types of venue resources, lowering the thresholds and restrictions on entrepreneurship, relaxing the conditions of domicile (place of business) and releasing the resources of domicile (place of business) in a conditional, planned and step-by-step manner.

People's Daily Online - Wuhan's new rules: residential next month to open 11 types of companies do not need the owners of the "proof of consent"

China.gov.cn - on the liberalization of the family residential address to register a company