Commercial buildings can apply for a business license. Because the nature of the property rights of commercial housing is commercial, can be used for commercial purposes, after the purchase can be used as office land for business licenses, in the business license before the preparation of the appropriate information can go for. Commercial housing is planned for commercial use of housing shall not be engaged in catering services, song and dance entertainment, provide Internet access service places, production processing and manufacturing, operation of hazardous chemicals and other related to national security, the existence of serious safety and production hazards, affecting people's health, pollution of the environment, affecting the safety of people's lives and property of the production and operation activities.

Local people's governments at all levels and the relevant departments of the people's governments at or above the county level shall take measures to provide individual industrial and commercial households with support, convenience and information and counseling services in respect of business premises, entrepreneurship and vocational skills training, vocational skills appraisal, technological innovation and participation in social insurance. Associations of individual workers established in accordance with the law shall, under the guidance of the administration for industry and commerce, provide services for individual business households, safeguard the lawful rights and interests of individual business households, and guide individual business households to be honest and self-disciplined. Individual entrepreneurs voluntarily join the Association of Individual Workers.

Legal basis: Article 8 of the Regulations on Individual Industrial and Commercial Households

Applicants for registration as an individual industrial and commercial enterprise shall apply for registration to the registration authority in the place where the place of business is located. 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 business households use the name, the name as a matter of registration.