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.

Business license is a certificate issued by the administrative department for industry and commerce to industrial and commercial enterprises and individual operators to engage in certain production and business activities. Its format shall be uniformly stipulated by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce.

The registered items include: name, address, person in charge, amount of funds, economic composition, business scope, business mode, number of employees, business period, etc.

Business licenses are divided into originals and duplicates, which have the same legal effect. The original shall be placed in a prominent position in the company's domicile or business premises, and the business license shall not be forged, altered, leased, lent or transferred.

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According to the Regulations of the People's Republic of China on the Administration of Company Registration:

Article 51

The company registration authority shall make a decision on whether to accept or not according to the following circumstances:

(1) If the application documents and materials are complete and conform to the statutory form, or the applicant submits all the corrected application documents and materials as required by the company registration authority, it shall decide to accept them.

(2) The application documents and materials are complete and conform to the statutory form, but if the company registration authority considers that the application documents and materials need to be verified, it shall decide to accept them and inform the applicant in writing of the matters, reasons and time to be verified.

(3) If there are errors in the application documents and materials that can be corrected on the spot, the applicant shall be allowed to correct them on the spot, and the applicant shall sign or seal the correction place and indicate the date of correction; If it is confirmed that the application documents and materials are complete and conform to the statutory form, it shall be decided to accept it.

(4) If the application documents and materials are incomplete or do not conform to the statutory form, the applicant shall be informed of all the contents that need to be corrected on the spot or within 5 days; If informed on the spot, the application documents and materials shall be returned to the applicant.

If it is notified within 5 days, it shall receive the application documents and materials, and issue a receipt certificate for the application documents and materials. Fails to inform, since the date of receipt of the application documents and materials is accepted.

(5) For matters that do not fall within the scope of company registration or the registration jurisdiction of this organ, it shall immediately decide not to accept them, and inform the applicant to apply to the relevant administrative organ.

Where the company registration authority applies by letter, telegram, telex, fax, electronic data interchange, e-mail, etc., it shall make a decision on whether to accept or not within 5 days from the date of receiving the application documents and materials.

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