Doing business in the Greater Bay Area

About the Greater Bay Area

The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) is a national strategic initiative aiming at transforming nine mainland China cities of Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Dongguan, Huizhou, Jiangmen, Zhongshan and Foshan and two Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macao into an international bay, rivalling existing global bays such as San Francisco Bay Area, Tokyo Metropolitan Area, and New York Metropolitan Area.

By leveraging each city’s unique strengths, the Greater Bay Area initiative aims to develop the region into a world-class innovation and technology (I&T) hub and a fast-moving city cluster for emerging industries offering regional competitive advantages on living, working and travelling.

In the Outline Development Plan released by the Chinese government, Hong Kong, Macao, Guangzhou and Shenzhen were prioritised as core engine cities. The relevant Central Government departments and the local governments will jointly take forward the development of the Greater Bay Area.

We provide company formation services, including the incorporation of Wholly Owned Foreign Enterprises, Representative Offices and Joint Ventures in mainland China, incorporation of Hong Kong Limited Companies, Representative Offices, subsidiaries of foreign corporations, branches for overseas companies, and Sole Proprietorship in Hong Kong.

Our company secretariats and administrators can assist clients with understanding compliance with local regulations, ensuring compliance with statutory deadlines and procedures, safekeeping, updating, maintaining registers, minutes book, and other statutory records of the company.

We provide our professional assistance in corporate and personal tax filing and tax optimisation strategy advice. In addition, we provide data entry of your bookkeeping records, reconciliation of bank statements, accounts receivables, accounts payable, and preparation and consolidation of accounting reports and financial statements.

We provide employees with salary statutory deductions calculation, payment arrangements to employees and statutory authorities, expense reimbursement arrangements, employee benefits computation, determination of final payment upon termination of an employee, preparation of year-end tax forms for employees, and preparation of personal tax returns.

Appointing Hawksford to act as a Temporary CFO for your business provides all the capabilities of an accounting department at a fraction of the cost of an in-house solution.

Hawksford helps entrepreneurs and foreign firms navigate Hong Kong’s immigration regulations when they require the service for themselves, their families, or their staff. We take time to review each case beforehand to guide you appropriately through the application process.

"Assisting us in both Mainland China and Hong Kong, Hawksford has always been a valuable partner to us, and we are very grateful for the services they have provided us with since day one. Working in the lighting industry assisting some of the most prestigious luxury brands worldwide, we often have extremely tight deadlines which Hawksford has always been able to accommodate. We appreciate and are proud testimonials of the well-delivered services that the teams at Hawksford consistently deliver."

Filippo Brunel - General Manager APAC, Luce5

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