Beijing Municipality, Measures for the Implementation of the «Tentative Provisions for the Administration of the Establishment of Sino-foreign Equity and Cooperative Joint Venture Employment Agencies»

Promulgated: December 28 2005
Effective: January 1 2006
Interpreting authority: Municipal Labour and Social Security Bureau, Municipal Commerce Bureau, Municipal Administration for Industry and Commerce Bureau

Main contents: Sino-foreign equity and cooperative joint venture employment agencies may engage in the following businesses:
(1) employment registration of Chinese and foreign job seekers, registration of job vacancies of work units and recommendation of job candidates;
(2) career guidance and consultation services;
(3) collection and release of information on the supply and demand of employment and vocational training;
(4) organizing recruitment fairs; and
(5) other businesses related to employment agency services approved by the municipal labour and social security bureau (Article 4).
Applicants for the establishment of Sino-foreign equity and cooperative joint venture employment agencies shall have registered capital (monetary and non-monetary) of not less than US$300,000 (Article 5). The Measures set forth the procedures for the establishment of Sino-foreign equity and cooperative joint venture employment agencies and their branches and sub-branches, and their change of investors, ratios of equity interests, enterprise names, places of business, terms and scopes of business, total investment and registered capital, as well as the procedures for early termination, dissolution, liquidation, etc. Investors of the Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions and Taiwan establishing equity and cooperative joint venture employment agencies in Beijing shall, mutatis mutandis, be handled in accordance with these Measures (Article 16).
Related legislation: Tentative Provisions for the Administration of the Establishment of Sino-foreign Equity and Cooperative Joint Venture Employment Agencies, Oct 8 2001, CLP 2001 No.9 p.7; Beijing Municipality, Regulations for the Administration of the Labour Market, Jul 31 1998, CLP 1998 No.9 p.14; Beijing Municipality, Provisions for the Administration of Employment Agency, Jun 18 2000 and Provisions for the Administration of Foreigners Working in China, Jan 22 1996, CLP 1996 No.4 p.5