There are six documents you need to obtain to open a B&B, namely: health permit, business license, tax registration certificate, special industry license, fire inspection and approval letter, and food circulation license or food service license. The first thing you need to do to open a B&B is to apply for a business license at the local business department. Then you also need to go to the local Public Security Bureau's Public Security Detachment to apply for a license to operate a B&B. B&B refers to the use of self-use residential free room, or unused houses, combined with local humanities, natural landscape, ecology, environmental resources and agricultural, forestry, fisheries and animal husbandry production activities, operated in the form of family side business, to provide travelers with accommodation in the countryside life. This definition fully explains the qualities that make B&Bs different from hotels or restaurants. Unlike traditional hotels and inns, B&Bs may not have high-level luxury facilities, but they allow people to experience the local flavor, feel the passion and service of the B&B hosts, and experience a life different from the one they used to live.

Legal basis:

Regulations on Individual Business Households

Article 4: The State shall apply the principle of equal access to the market and fair treatment to individual business households. Where an application is made for the registration of an individual industrial or commercial enterprise, and the scope of business for which registration is sought does not belong to an industry whose entry is prohibited by laws or administrative regulations, the registration authority shall register it in accordance with the law.

Article 8 An application for registration as an individual industrial or commercial enterprise shall be made to the registration authority where the place of business is located to apply for registration. The applicant shall submit an application for registration, proof of identity and proof of business premises. Individual business registration matters include the name and residence of the operator, the form of composition, scope of business, place of business. Individual industrial and commercial households to use the name, the name as a matter of registration. Article XVII individual industrial and commercial households in the receipt of a business license, shall apply for tax registration in accordance with the law. Individual industrial and commercial enterprise tax registration changes in the content, shall, in accordance with the law to change or cancel the tax registration.

Article 20 Individual industrial and commercial households may, on the basis of business license and tax registration certificate, open an account with a bank or other financial institutions in accordance with the law, and apply for loans. Financial institutions shall improve and perfect the financial services for individual business households to apply for loans to provide convenience.