- Close to Chencheng residence, one of five prime presidential sites

- Combination of urban and natural river view

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Maxxelli Blog Chongqing are pleased to present a list of approved means of judicial assistance or advice.
All companies on the list have been checked and approved by the American Consulate in Chengdu

YuYi Lawyers Office
200#, Zhongshan 1st Rd, 3rd Floor
Linghua Building, YuZhong District
Phone: 023-6350-0255
Reception Room: 197#, Ren Min Road.
Tel: 023-6385-0925

ZhongHao Lawyers Office
#68. Zou Rong Rd.
22 FL. Da Du Hui Plaza
Yu Zhong Dist.
Phone:  023-6371-6888
Zhang Ming Jie, (Jason Zhang )
Zhang Hui, (Dominic Zhang)

XingQuan Lawyers Office
192#, ZhongShan 2nd Road
23 FL. B, GangTian Building, YuZhong District
Phone: (23) 6352-3758, 023- 6353-7164
Liu Xin Quan, (English Speaker)
Tang Quan, (English Speaker)

YuanBing Lawyers Office
131# ZhongShan 3rd Road
LiangLuKou, 12 Fl.,Commerce Center
Hilton Hotel, YuZhong District
Phone:  023-6387-4080
Fax: 023-8903-8567
Zhu Yang, (English Speaker)
Yan Li, (English Speaker)
Deng Zhong He, (English Speaker)

PingZheng Lawyers Office
78#, Yang He 1st Village, 26 Fl.
International Business Building, Jiang Bei District
Phone: 023-6775-7385, 023- 6775-6581

Jiangjin JunCe Law Offices
10th Floor, Da Xi Men Real Estate Exchange Ctr., Jiangjin City
Phone:  023-4755-3045, 023-4752-1704

Haworth & Lexon Law Office
2507-2508, Future International Building, Jianxin Rd.(N), Chongqing 400020
Tel: （8623） 8679 8588  8679 8720
Fax: （8623） 8679 8722
Email：hl@hllawyers.com
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Solton & Partners
Enrich International Plaza, 12 FL
#168, 3rd Zhongshan Rd, Yuzhong Dist.
Eric R. Zimmermann, Esq., Attorney
Phone: 023-6389-2901
Fax: 023-6363-1834

The economy of western China has developed rapidly since the implementation of the western development strategy in China. The Western China International Fair, as the biggest window and most important platform for the opening-up of western China, has made great contribution to promoting the cooperation among western China provinces, between the eastern, central and western regions of China and between domestic and overseas enterprises, and realizing mutual benefits and win-win cooperation.

Venue: Chengdu International Exhibition & Convention Center 成都世纪城新国际会展中心

Website: http://www.westernchinafair.org/

Getting there: Take subway line 1 to Century City Station

Organizers: Minister of Commerce P.R.C., Minister of Agriculture P.R.C., CCPIT, etc.

Contact:
Sichuan International Chamber of Commerce
Add: 11/12F, Sichuan International Chamber of Commerce, 36 Shuxing Xijie, Chengdu
Tel: 028-87534738, 87534791
Fax: 028-87534737, 66258388

How to understand Guanxi

Whenever you read or hear about China you cannot get around the Chinese word Guanxi (关系).

For non- Chinese it is difficult to understand what this little word really stands for.

The original meaning is “relationship”. But most dictionaries mention that it can also mean “concerning something”, “condition” or “involvement”. And that is where most foreigners have trouble understanding how relationship can also mean “condition”.

Guanxi is used as a term for a personal network. Those networks influence almost all decisions made in China while contracts and agreements are seen as guidelines which can be questioned or changed.

Most foreigners find it hard to believe that Guanxi is not a synonym for the Western term “corruption”. In China they use the word Huilu (贿赂) for this illegal process.

So what is Guanxi, if it doesn´t mean corruption?

Guanxi- Relationships are unlike corruption not based on unions, groups or institutions but are concerning the link between two individual persons. From there on the network can be expanded to the people the other one has Guanxi with.

The dangerous thing about introducing other people to the people you have Guanxi with, is that you could lose your face (honor, credibility) in case the introduced person is not trustworthy or reliable.

This kind of relationship needs a long time to be built up but when established it can be on a very high level. Some of the relationships are based on living together in the same village or because two people were studying in the same university.

But unlike the western definition of friendship or companionship, Guanxi can only exist if the help one gives to the other is equal to the received favor. Eventually you have to “pay back” your Guanxi- Partners.

Time and consistence play an important role in this process which involves work and caretaking. It could be compared to a fire. You have to put wood into the flames to keep it going.

People you have good Guanxi have the skill to know when to get new wood and when it is time to use the fire. That’s why it is very important for Chinese to categorize people as family, friends or foes.

All this is normally unnoticeable for foreigners who are most of the time outside of this very Chinese network.

Interesting enough “Mei Guanxi” which could be wrongly translated as “no relationship” means actually “don´t worry”, “never mind” or “doesn´t matter. So don´t be insulted if someone on the street appears to tell you “We have no relationship”.

(1)After your application materials have been verified by tax officials, you will be given Tax Demand Notice. You should pay your tax into the appointed banks or credit cooperatives within the prescribed time limit. If you want to settle the amount due by card,you can use your cards in the automatic machines at the collection window of the tax service hall. If you’ll pay your tax in cash or by credit card, you will be directly given tax memorandum. If you are approved by tax authorities to report and pay tax by mailing or electronically, the current tax payment shall be remitted while the declaration materials are being mailed or sent.
(2)If you should miss to pay your taxes within the prescribed time limit, or if a withholding agent fails to remit tax within the prescribed time limit, the tax authorities shall, in addition to setting a new time limit for tax payment, impose a surcharge for overdue payment, equal to 0.05 percent of the overdue tax for each day in arrears, starting from the first day the payment becomes overdue.

(3)Shall you or your withholding agent fail to pay tax or underpay tax as a result of the responsibilities of the tax authorities, the tax authorities may, within three years, require you or your withholding agent to pay the tax in arrears, but they shall not impose any fine on the tax in arrears. If you  or your withholding agent fail to pay  taxes or underpay taxes throughyour/his  own faults, such as making an erroneous calculation, the tax authorities may, within three years, pursue the collection of the tax in arrears and impose a surcharge. If special circumstances exist, the period for pursuing the collection of the tax in arrears may be extended to five years. When tax evasion, tax fraud and refusal of pay tax are concerned, and the tax authorities are perusing the payment of tax evaded, underpaid or defrauded, and the surcharge, the period is not restricted by the proceeding provision.
(4)The procedure of entrusting banks to handle tax payment
In order to improve efficiency and serve taxpayers better, Chongqing Local Taxation Bureau has signed cooperative agreements of “Banking & Taxation Integration” , with Chongqing Municipal Branch of Industrial & Commercial Bank of China(ICBC), Post Bureau of Chongqing Municipal, Credit Cooperatives Union of Chongqing Municipality, and others. You can sign “Entrusted Transfer of Tax Payment Agreement” with any of the units mentioned above, to entrust them to transfer tax payment.
The procedure of handling entrusted transfer of tax payment:
(1) With your I.D. Card and “Entrusted Transfer of Tax Payment Agreement” with signature, you should open a current saving account in a chosen entrusted unit. If you have already opened a saving account,you can also use the original account, but you have to handle the above procedure.
(2) Having received the copy of I. D. Card and “Entrusted Transfer of Tax Payment Agreement”, the entrusted unit shall open an account for you, and write down the account number and the I. D. number in “Entrusted Transfer of Tax Payment Agreement”
(3) If you have accepted the “Banking & Taxation Integration”, he can report and pay tax in tax functions, or by telephone; or he can use his card to pay tax in a banking outlet
(4) If you have agreed to a fixed tax payment of a fixed schedule and you don’t report and pay tax within the prescribed time limit, and if the balance is enough, the entrusted unit shall transfer tax payment from your account to a local taxation function in accordance with the agreement.
(5) If you don’t report and pay tax within the prescribed time limit, you will have to accept punishment in the local supervising function, then you can continue to report and pay tax.

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Ein Sino-Foreign Cooperative Joint Venture ist ein Joint Venture einer chinesischen und einer ausländischen Firma innerhalb Chinas. Die chinesische Firma stellt dabei normalerweise Personal, Landnutzungsrechte und Fabrikgebäude, während die ausländische Firma nötige Technologien, wichtiges Equipment und Kapital einbringt. Dieser Joint Venture Typ basiert auf einer Vereinigung in der Bereiche wie die Kooperationsbedingungen, Einkommen, Eigentum und Vertragsaustrittsbedingungen festgeschrieben sind.

Unterschiede zwischen einem Sino-Foreign Equity Joint Venture und einem Sino-Foreign Cooperative Joint Venture

Es gibt drei Hauptunterschiede:

• Während ein Sino-Foreign Equity Joint Venture immer auf einer juristischen Person und damit in eingeschränkter Haftung beruht, kann ein Sino-Foreign Cooperative Joint Venture in einer juristischen Person oder in voller Haftung bestehen. Letzteres ist weit verbreitet, da die Partner persönlich für sämtliche möglichen Verluste in der Zukunft verantwortlich sind.
• In einem Sino-Foreign Equity Joint Venture werden die Gewinne im selben Verhältnis an die Partner verteilt wie die Kapitaleinsätze während diese Verteilung in einem Sino-Foreign Cooperative Joint Venture gemäß der Wünsche der Parteien verteilt werden können. Letzteres Joint Venture ist somit flexibler.
• In einem Sino-Foreign Cooperative Joint Venture kann neben registriertem Kapital zu kooperativen Konditionen, z.B. Markteintrittsrechte etc. investiert werden.

In China, Volvo Car Corporation’s management team led by Freeman Shen is well established and Volvo Car China has now grown from a national sales company into a full-fledged organisation with its headquarter in Shanghai. Now when we are talking about Volvo Car China Operation, we are talking about a subsidiary in China which includes sales and marketing, manufacturing, purchasing, product development and all other supporting functions.

We have started building the Chengdu plant, and investigations are ongoing for a potential plant in Daqing. It will be extremely important to use the Volvo manufacturing and quality systems in these plants so that we will build the same quality Volvo cars and engines as those being built for Volvo elsewhere.

Our R&D organisation in Shanghai will become the centre for product development, engineering, design and sourcing in China, and an important and integrated part of our global product development network. Our diversified product development team has taken on engineering tasks in new product design and local sourcing as well as supporting global teams in new product and new technology development.

Meanwhile, we are developing and optimising the supply base in China not only for the China plants but also for Volvo Cars’ entire global operation. Currently, it is our priority to hire new staff to work with product development for the Chinese market and support local production and purchasing activities. We will implement the same quality standards as those in Europe and are willing to build a long-term relationship with our suppliers in China. A design center is being located in Shanghai to support the global design team in understanding the market trend in China and the preference of Chinese consumers.

There is also full focus to increase sales in China by strengthening sales and marketing activities, including expanding the dealer network, recruiting and training sales consultants and improving customer experience and satisfaction.

China Growth Plan Progress
We have made lots of progress in China in the past year. Sales increased by 36 per cent, to 21,000 units by the end of June, compared with the same period last year. Our sales network is expanding systematically, with increased interest and enthusiasm from dealers across the country. In the first half of 2011, 11 new dealers joined our sales force and turned the total dealer number to 117 nationwide. We are also working on further improvement of customer satisfaction together with our dealers.

Road ahead
China overtook the United States as the world’s largest car market in 2009, and continued a strong growth momentum in 2011, especially in the market segment where we are competing. In the luxury car segment, the sales boom has provided tremendous opportunities for us. However, our goal of selling 200,000 vehicles per year from last year’s amount of 30,000 vehicles will not be an easy job. This requires lots of hard work, passion for our customers and cars, speed to market and smart thinking from all of us.

Nobody has ever done what we are doing today. We are not just another multinational company in China. Here we are making history together. Facing the market and fierce competition, we need to have a strong sense of urgency and install great courage to achieve our ambitious goals in China.

My colleagues and I are committed to writing a new chapter in China’s auto industry. We will work very hard and smart, with customers, partners and other stakeholders to unlock the tiger of Volvo and regain its glory. Together with our global team, we will make Volvo Cars a most admired brand and one of the most successful businesses in China.

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