You can apply for a business license, and you need a business license to open a shop in the community. Without a business license, industrial and commercial enterprises or individual operators are not allowed to start business, engrave official seals, sign contracts, register trademarks or advertise, and banks are not allowed to open accounts.

Materials to be prepared for handling individual business license:

1. My ID card and photocopy (foreigners need to provide temporary residence permit and photocopy).

2, the premises of the housing lease contract or real estate license and a copy.

3. Two one-inch bareheaded color photos.

4. If they are laid-off workers and poor households of state-owned and collective enterprises. You also need to bring unemployment cards, preferential cards for unemployed people, special hardship cards and their copies in order to enjoy preferential policies for reducing or exempting management fees in accordance with relevant state regulations.

5, engaged in food, cosmetics and other special industries, but also need to prepare health certificates and copies (involving pre-approval industries need to provide approval opinions).

Bring the above documents to the local industrial and commercial office and explain to the staff what kind of business license to apply for. After checking the relevant documents, the staff will fill in the form.