Welcome to ChinaInvest.biz Magazine - March 2010 Issue

ChinaInvest.biz Media Limited is a member of Klako Group and will be providing monthly insight into investment, tax and operational issues for foreign companies entering and operating in China.

Many foreign companies are feeling the pressure to establish an entity in China. Often the establishment
requires a high capital investment and more importantly a risk factor. Due to these aspects, more and
more investors are establishing offshore companies to act as holding entities for the China investment and
therewith taking over the full liability for the Chinese operation. The establishment of many of these offshore
companies is an easy process and due to an uncomplicated tax system and accounting requirements, simple
to operate. Double taxation agreements have been drafted and implemented between China and many of
these offshore jurisdictions, which adds an additional benefit.

One such jurisdiction is Hong Kong, which is an excellent location to set up a business, not only because
it is one of the world’s major trading, finance and service centers but also because of its simple taxation system. The foundation of a limited company in Hong Kong offers important tax and operative advantages. It enables you to save a considerable amount of costs and increase the profit from import and export. The taxation for the earned profit of the company in Hong Kong is 16.5% or if it is an offshore profit 0%.

It is important for a company to evaluate its best entry strategy and all options for structuring or re-structuring their China entities. It is important to consider which option fits your profile most.

Hong Kong - A Stepping Stone to China
By Klaus Koehler, Managing Director, Klako Group

Asia, especially China, is emerging as the world’s economic growth engine. Hong Kong is the perfect
base from which to access this dynamic market. A uniquely global business city, at the heart of Asia
with a Chinese perspective,” is the perfect description used by HKInvest to attract foreign investors
into the region.

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Interview with Matthieu Brutsaert, Chief Representative of RFR SAS, Shanghai Representative Office

RFR is an engineering company that specialises in the design of complex structures and of sophisticated envelopes, in intimate symbiosis with the physical character of the building concerned. Its competence goes far beyond construction techniques alone, to attain the creation of elegant structures that reconcile engineering and architecture.

The work of RFR is founded on mastery of the technical tools and of the associated scientific concepts. Its use of the most advanced computer applications and exploitation of the most recent technologies enable the company to generate a synthesis of construction parameters which lead to solutions that are at once rigorous, innovative and efficient.

RFR was founded in Paris in 1982 by Peter Rice, and is also based at Stuttgart in Germany, at Shanghai in China, and at Abu Dhabi in the Emirates. The firm has distinguished itself over the intervening years on many projects, executed in every part of the world. The wide range of skills possessed by its staff, composed of engineers, architects and industrials designers, enable it to operate in very diverse contexts, and to use the widest variety of materials.

RFR has been able to design structures of high quality, intended for unique locations like the Musée du Louvre or the Louis Vuitton store on the avenue des Champs Elysées in Paris, the Capitol in Washington, the Irish Parliament building in Dublin, or the library of the Indian Parliament in New Delhi.

RFR interprets its calling in terms of a global vision that is synonymous with quality. Today, RFR is a multi-award winning international multi-disciplinary Engineering Consultancy firm, which alone in their field in delivering global expertise to the highest creative and technical standards in engineering in Europe, Middle East and Asia, with fullservice offices in Paris, Abu Dhabi, Stuttgart and Shanghai- continuing to realize dreams of notable architect’s -Frank Gehry LV Paris, Morphosis, Paul Andreu, Kohn Pederson Fox, SPARCH Asia (ex. SMC Alsop).

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