What are you planning?
Describe the business and the work you would do in China. A small AI company, a studio or café, and a home for remote work need different practical checks.
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What would China add?
Name the customer, supplier, lab, specialist or place that would make the business work better. This gives you something concrete to investigate.
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Legal and structural feasibility
Check entry, work and residence status, foreign-investment access, entity needs, money, data, connectivity and sector-specific constraints where they affect the proposed activity.
Which city has what you need?
Compare cities by the people, equipment, suppliers or customers your work needs. Ask how you would work with those organisations.
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Would Beijing help?
Use Beijing when its research, institutional, technical, customer or policy capabilities serve the requirement. Skip this branch when another ecosystem is the better answer.
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Where will you work and live?
Your company address, workplace, customers, suppliers and home can be in different places. Plan around the locations you must visit most often.
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Which district or building fits?
Compare travel, services, premises and costs for the shortlisted places. A suitable district does not tell you whether a particular building will work.
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Verification
Confirm the responsible counterpart, live access route, eligibility, timing, costs, data terms, address or facility conditions and the facts that would stop the project.
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What is the first commitment?
Agree the first test, visit or setup task, who will do it, what it costs and when it is due. Use the result to decide the next commitment.