−Removed: have been engaged in the retail and wholesale distribution of a wide spectrum of food and beverage products in Guangdong province,
−Removed: China since 2011.
−Removed: We have eight stores in Dongguan City, Guangdong Province to serve our clients and we have developed
−Removed: our online platform for our wholesaler and other end users.
−Removed: In addition, we are actively seeking quality target companies in the
−Removed: food, beverage and alcohol industries for mergers and acquisition for further development of our company.
+Added: conduct our business through our PRC subsidiaries, which are a food and beverage supply chain company group based in Guangdong
+Added: province, China.
+Added: With the mission to improve people’s lives by offering safe and quality foods, we are committed to building a
+Added: first class food supply chain business in China and in the global markets.
+Added: Through quality control and sales of selected branded products,
+Added: we provide a one-stop quality food purchase experience for both businesses and individual customers.
+Added: Our products are well recognized
+Added: among consumer groups in the Pearl River Delta region of China.
+Added: vision is “Safe Foods for the People.” We strive to improve the consumers’ food experience in respect of brand, quality,
+Added: service and speed.
+Added: Through online and offline channels, we deliver quality food products to consumers through sales targeting regional
+Added: wholesalers, major food and beverage chains, supermarkets and other retailers.
+Added: purchase, supply, distribute and sell alcohol and non-alcohol beverages, packaged staple foods, condiments and seasonings, and household
+Added: drinking water related purification devices.
+Added: Since our founding in 2011, we have primarily engaged in the wholesale distribution and
+Added: retail sale of wine and liquor products in Southern China.
+Added: In the recent years, we have expanded into the non-alcohol beverage and food
+Added: markets through strategic acquisitions.
+Added: currently mainly purchase and sell four categories of food and beverage and related products.
+Added: Our offerings have evolved over our history
+Added: of development.
+Added: Our current core lines of products include the following four categories:
+Added: beverage, including wine, liquor and spirits;
+Added: beverage, primarily bottled drinking water;
+Added: food products, primarily including edible oil, condiments and seasonings;
+Added: water purification products, such as whole house water filtration systems and purification solution products.
+Added: manage the entire process of product procurement, warehousing, distribution, logistics, and delivery through our supply chain system.
+Added: We cultivate long-term cooperation relationships with many high-quality upstream suppliers to secure the supply demand and stable product
+Added: We continuously enhance food quality and safety standards through our quality control system and supplier development management
+Added: Through continuous optimization and management of supply planning, logistics management and quality assurance, we have improved
+Added: product procurement efficiency and order management capabilities.
+Added: advertise and sell products using a hybrid marketing model through our supply chain platform, social media, primarily WeChat, distributor
+Added: network, key customer channels, product displays at our stores, and community promotions.
+Added: We promote direct sales to business and individual
+Added: consumers on our e-commerce supply chain platform – “Fugu Online.” Further, we make online or offline bulk sales through
+Added: our agents and independent distributors.
+Added: Prior to the launching of our supply chain platform, the majority of our sales had been made
+Added: through independent distributors.
+Added: We believe our distribution network is still an important component of our hybrid sales model.
+Added: agent and distributor sales model helps enhance the brand awareness of our products among end customers.
+Added: Furthermore, we have achieved
+Added: a substantial portion of our sales through key customer channels.
+Added: We have established long-term and stable cooperative relations with
+Added: certain large enterprises.
+Added: We hold periodic offline promotions, offline anniversary activities, and offer loyalty rewards to key customers.
+Added: We initiate promotions to expand our customer base and build brand awareness.
+Added: As we have multiple product lines, there are many opportunities
+Added: for cross-selling across our platform as we seek to introduce customers to all product offerings.
+Added: We also believe our strong reputation
+Added: is a factor in retaining and attracting customers.
+Added: are on path to build a closed-loop industry supply chain system for our products.
+Added: Through connecting upstream suppliers and downstream
+Added: enterprises, we have formed a supply chain network, broadened market penetration through the technology driven e-commerce platform and
+Added: services, and aligned third-party production, supply and marketing with distribution and sale to achieve cost reduction and efficiency.
+Added: our deeply rooted brand image, fast and efficient multi-channel sales model, precise consumer positioning, superior service experience,
+Added: and an online platform connecting suppliers, core enterprises, and customers in the food supply chain, today we are well positioned to
+Added: become a competitive leader in the food supply chain market in China.
History and Structure
−Removed: Valley Treasures, Inc., formerly Crypto-Services, Inc., was incorporated in the State of Nevada on March 21, 2014.
−Removed: We were initially
−Removed: incorporated to offer users with up-to-date information on digital currencies.
−Removed: July 22, 2015, we filed an amendment to its Articles of Incorporation with the Nevada Secretary of State to change our name from
−Removed: Crypto-Services, Inc.
−Removed: to Fortune Valley Treasures, Inc.
−Removed: December 14, 2016, we entered into a sale and purchase agreement (the “Original Agreement”) with DaXingHuaShang Investment
−Removed: Group Limited, a company incorporated under the laws of the Republic of Seychelles (“DIGLS”), and its shareholders.
−Removed: DIGLS is engaged in the business of retail and wholesale of imported wine products in China and owns all of the equity capital
−Removed: of DaXingHuaShang Investment (Hong Kong) Limited (“DILHK”), Qianhai DaXingHuaShang Investment (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
−Removed: (“QHDX”) and Dongguan City France Vin Tout Ltd.
−Removed: (“FVTL”).
−Removed: Pursuant to the Original Agreement, we agreed
−Removed: to issue 300,000,000 shares of our common stock to the stockholders of DIGLS in exchange for 100% of the shares of DIGLS.
−Removed: 11, 2018, we entered into a termination agreement with DIGLS, terminating the Original Agreement and all transactions contemplated
−Removed: under the Original Agreement.
−Removed: On April 6, 2018, we entered into a share exchange agreement by and among DIGLS, and each of the
−Removed: shareholders of DIGLS, pursuant to which we issued 300,000,000 shares of common stock in exchange for 100% of the issued shares
−Removed: The share exchange closed on April 19, 2018 and DIGLS became our wholly-owned subsidiary.
−Removed: the year 2020, in order to increase our wine market share, FVTL set up two subsidiaries, namely “Dongguan City Fu
−Removed: La Tu Trade Ltd (FLTT)”
−Removed: and “Dongguan City Fu Xin Gu Trade Ltd (FXGT)”
−Removed: in Dongguan City.
−Removed: March 1, 2019, we entered into a sale and purchase agreement to acquire 100% of the shares of Jiujiu Group Stock Co., Ltd.
−Removed: (“JJGS”),
−Removed: a company incorporated under the laws of the Republic of Seychelles, in exchange for 100 shares of our common stock and closed
−Removed: the acquisition of JJGS on March 1, 2019.
−Removed: After the closing, JJGS became the Company’s wholly owned subsidiary.
−Removed: all of the equity interest of Jiujiu (HK) Industry Limited (“JJHK”) and Jiujiu (Shenzhen) Industry Co., Ltd.
−Removed: (“JJSZ”).
−Removed: JJGS and JJHK are holding companies and conduct business through their operating subsidiary, JJSZ, which engages in retail
−Removed: and wholesale distribution of our wine products.
−Removed: June 22, 2020, we entered into a sale and purchase agreement along with Qianhai DaXingHuaShang Investment (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.,
−Removed: a company incorporated in China and a wholly-owned subsidiary of FVTI (“QHDX”), to acquire 90% of the shares of Dongguan
−Removed: Xixingdao Technology Co., Ltd.
−Removed: (“Xixingdao”), a company incorporated in China, in exchange for 4,862,681 shares of
−Removed: our common stock and closed the acquisition of Xixingdao on August 31, 2020.
−Removed: After the closing, Xixingdao became the Company’s
−Removed: The shares were issued to the original owners of Xixingdao on December 28, 2020.
−Removed: Xixingdao’s principal business
−Removed: is drinking water distribution and delivery in Dongguan City, Guangdong Province.
−Removed: To increase its market share,
−Removed: Xixingdao set up eight subsidiaries primarily operating wholesale distribution of our water products to serve the local
−Removed: following diagram illustrates our corporate structure as of the date of this Annual Report.
+Added: was incorporated under the laws of the State of Nevada on March 21, 2014 under the name Crypto-Services, Inc.
+Added: The company was originally
+Added: formed with the purpose of providing users with up-to-date information on digital currencies.
+Added: On September 22, 2016, the company amended
+Added: its articles of incorporation to change its name from “Crypto-Services, Inc.” to “Fortune Valley Treasures, Inc.”
+Added: April 11, 2018, FVTI entered into a share exchange agreement with DaXingHuaShang Investment Group Limited, a company incorporated under
+Added: the laws of the Republic of Seychelles (“DIGLS”), and its shareholders, Yumin Lin, Gaosheng Group Co., Ltd.
+Added: and China Kaipeng
+Added: Group Co., Ltd, pursuant to which FVTI issued 15,000,000 shares of common stock (split-adjusted) to the shareholders of DIGLS in exchange
+Added: for 100% of the issued shares of DIGLS (the “Share Exchange”).
+Added: Upon the consummation of the Share Exchange on April 19, 2018,
+Added: DIGLS became our wholly owned subsidiary.
+Added: is a holding company and owns all of the equity of DaXingHuaShang Investment (Hong Kong) Limited (“DILHK”), a private company
+Added: limited by shares formed under the laws of Hong Kong.
+Added: DILHK owns 100% of the equity of Qianhai DaXingHuaShang Investment (Shenzhen) Co.,
+Added: (“QHDX”), a wholly foreign owned enterprise organized under the laws of China, which, in turn, owns 100% of the equity
+Added: of FVT Supply Chain, an operating subsidiary.
+Added: March 1, 2019, FVTI entered into a share purchase agreement to acquire 100% of the shares of Jiujiu Group Stock Co., Ltd.
+Added: a company incorporated under the laws of the Republic of Seychelles, with the shareholders of JJGS in exchange for 5 shares of our common
+Added: stock (split-adjusted).
+Added: Following the closing of the acquisition on March 1, 2019, JJGS became our wholly owned subsidiary.
+Added: all of the equity of Jiujiu (HK) Industry Limited (“JJHK”), a Hong Kong company limited by shares.
+Added: JJHK owns 100% of the
+Added: equity of Jiujiu (Shenzhen) Industry Co., Ltd.
+Added: (“JJSZ”), a PRC operating company engaged in retail and wholesale distribution
+Added: of alcohol beverage products.
+Added: July 13, 2019, FVTI and QHDX entered into an equity interest transfer agreement, which was amended on September 12, 2019, with the controlling
+Added: shareholder of Yunnan Makaweng Wine & Spirits Co., Ltd.
+Added: (“Makaweng”), a PRC limited liability company engaged in the
+Added: business of distribution of wine and beer.
+Added: Pursuant to the agreement, QHDX would purchase 51% of Makaweng’s equity interest from
+Added: the controlling shareholder of Makaweng in exchange for shares of FVTI common stock.
+Added: On August 28, 2019, the registration of the transfer
+Added: of the 51% of equity interest of Makaweng to QHDX with local government agencies was completed.
+Added: On December 3, 2020, QHDX and the controlling
+Added: shareholder of Makaweng entered into a share transfer agreement, pursuant to which the parties agreed that QHDX would transfer all of
+Added: the 51% of Makaweng equity interest back to the controlling shareholder.
+Added: Upon the effectiveness of the agreement, QHDX no longer owned
+Added: an equity interest in Makaweng.
+Added: FVTI has not issued any shares to the controlling shareholder and the control of Makaweng has never been
+Added: transferred to QHDX.
+Added: However, the registration of the transfer of the 51% interest by QHDX to the controlling shareholder has not been
+Added: completed as of the date hereof.
+Added: June 22, 2020, FVTI and QHDX entered into a share purchase agreement with Dongguan Xixingdao Technology Co., Ltd.
+Added: (“Xixingdao”),
+Added: a PRC company, and the two former shareholders of Xixingdao, who collectively owned all of the equity interest in Xixingdao.
+Added: is engaged in the business of drinking water distribution and delivery in Dongguan City, Guangdong Province.
+Added: Pursuant to the agreement,
+Added: QHDX purchased 90% of Xixingdao’s equity interest from the sellers in exchange for 243,135 shares of FVTI’s common stock
+Added: (split-adjusted).
+Added: We obtained the control of Xixingdao and Xixingdao became our subsidiary on August 31, 2020.
+Added: The shares were issued
+Added: on December 28, 2020.
+Added: September 28, 2021, FVTI effected a one-for-twenty reverse stock split (referred to herein as “reverse split”) of the issued
+Added: and outstanding shares of common stock, $0.001 par value, by filing a Certificate of Change with the Secretary of State of the State
+Added: The reverse split became effective with FINRA and in the OTC marketplace on October 21, 2021 when the common stock began trading
+Added: on a split-adjusted basis.
+Added: Prior to the reverse split, FVTI was authorized to issue 3,000,000,000 shares of common stock and there were
+Added: 313,098,220 shares of common stock outstanding.
+Added: As a result of the reverse split, FVTI is authorized to issue 150,000,000 shares of common
+Added: stock, and there are currently 15,655,038 shares of common stock outstanding.
+Added: Unless otherwise stated, all shares and per share amounts
+Added: in this report have been retroactively adjusted to give effect to this reverse stock split.
+Added: chart below depicts the corporate structure of the Company as of the date of this report.
+Added: Plan and Recent Development
(COVID-19) Update
−Removed: December 2019, a novel strain of coronavirus (COVID-19) was
−Removed: first identified in China and has since spread rapidly globally.
−Removed: The outbreak of COVID-19 has resulted in quarantines,
−Removed: travel restrictions, and the temporary closure of stores and business facilities globally.
−Removed: In March 2020, the World Health
−Removed: Organization declared the COVID-19 a pandemic.
−Removed: In 2020, COVID-19 had a material impact on our business, financial condition,
−Removed: and results of operations.
+Added: December 2019, a novel strain of coronavirus (COVID-19) was first identified in China and has since spread rapidly globally.
+Added: of COVID-19 has resulted in quarantines, travel restrictions, and the temporary closure of stores and business facilities globally.
+Added: March 2020, the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 a pandemic.
+Added: In 2020, COVID-19 had a material impact on our business,
+Added: financial condition, and results of operations.
including, but not limited to, the following:
temporally closed our offices in early 2020, as required by relevant PRC regulatory authorities.
−Removed: Our offices were
−Removed: subsequently reopened pursuant to local guidelines.
−Removed: In 2020, the pandemic caused disruptions in our operations
−Removed: and supply chains, which resulted in delays in the shipment of products to certain of our customers.
−Removed: large number of our employees were in mandatory self-quarantine and the entire business operations of the Company halted
−Removed: for over a month from February to March 2020.
+Added: Our offices were subsequently reopened
+Added: pursuant to local guidelines.
+Added: In 2020, the pandemic caused disruptions in our operations and supply chains, which resulted in delays
+Added: in the shipment of products to certain of our customers.
+Added: large number of our employees were in mandatory self-quarantine and the entire business operations of the Company halted for over
+Added: a month from February to March 2020.
customers were negatively impacted by the pandemic, which reduced the demand of our products.
−Removed: As a result, our revenue and
−Removed: income were negatively impacted in the first half of 2020.
−Removed: the second quarter of 2020, the COVID outbreak in China
−Removed: has gradually been controlled.
−Removed: Our business has also returned to normal operations, although management assessed that our results
−Removed: of operations had been negatively impacted for the year.
−Removed: COVID-19 could adversely affect our business and results of operations
−Removed: in 2021 if any COVID resurgence causes significant disruptions to our operations or the business of our supply chain, logistics
−Removed: and service providers.
−Removed: We cannot predict the severity and duration of the impact from such resurgence,
−Removed: If any new outbreak of COVID-19 is not effectively and timely controlled, or if government responses to outbreaks
−Removed: or potential outbreaks are severe or long-lasting, our business operations and financial condition may be materially and adversely
−Removed: affected as a result of the deteriorating market outlook, the slowdown in regional and national economic growth, weakened liquidity
−Removed: and financial condition of our customers or other factors that we cannot foresee.
−Removed: Any of these factors and other factors beyond
−Removed: our control could have an adverse effect on the overall business environment, cause uncertainties in the regions where we conduct
−Removed: business, and could materially and adversely impact our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: business plan is to extend our market share through acquiring quality businesses in the food and beverage industries, in
−Removed: order to increase our customer base and supply channels, as well as to acquire more skilled employees and business connections
−Removed: in the industries.
−Removed: We plan to further develop our online marketing platform and internal operation management system by
−Removed: engaging an external IT company during 2021.
−Removed: In the past year, we successfully acquired Xixingdao, a drinking water distribution
−Removed: While we terminated proposed acquisitions of two target companies as a result of their inability to meet our performance
−Removed: requirements, as disclosed below, we are in the process of completing the acquisition of Valley Holdings, a food wholesale and
−Removed: food additives business.
−Removed: We expect to continue to explore new opportunities to acquire additional quality and compatible businesses
−Removed: in our industries.
+Added: As a result, our revenue and income
+Added: were negatively impacted in the first half of 2020.
+Added: the second quarter of 2020, the COVID outbreak in China has gradually been controlled.
+Added: Our business has also returned to normal operations,
+Added: although management assessed that our results of operations had been negatively impacted for the 2020 fiscal year.
+Added: COVID-19 could
+Added: adversely affect our business and results of operations in 2022 if any COVID resurgence causes significant disruptions to our
+Added: operations or the business of our supply chain, logistics and service providers.
+Added: We cannot predict the severity and duration of the impact
+Added: from such resurgence, if any.
+Added: If any new outbreak of COVID-19 is not effectively and timely controlled, or if government responses to
+Added: outbreaks or potential outbreaks are severe or long-lasting, our business operations and financial condition may be materially and adversely
+Added: affected as a result of the deteriorating market outlook, the slowdown in regional and national economic growth, weakened liquidity and
+Added: financial condition of our customers or other factors that we cannot foresee.
+Added: Any of these factors and other factors beyond our control
+Added: could have an adverse effect on the overall business environment, cause uncertainties in the regions where we conduct business, and could
+Added: materially and adversely impact our business, financial condition and results of operations.
+Added: Holdings Acquisition
+Added: business plan is to extend our market share through acquiring quality businesses in the food and beverage industries, in order to increase
+Added: our customer base and supply channels, as well as to acquire more skilled employees and business connections in the industries.
+Added: to further develop our online marketing platform and internal operation management system by engaging an external IT company during 2021.
+Added: In the past year, we successfully acquired Xixingdao, a drinking water distribution business.
+Added: We expect to continue to explore new opportunities
+Added: to acquire additional quality and compatible businesses in our industries.
+Added: Our management believes that successful acquisitions will
+Added: bring synergies to our business and enhance our shareholders’ value.
consider the following factors when evaluating quality acquisition targets:
(i) costs involved in an acquisition;
−Removed: (ii) financial
−Removed: performance of the target;
+Added: (ii) financial performance
+Added: of the target;
(iii) the reputation of the target in its industry;
−Removed: (iv) the target’s existing customer base;
−Removed: (v) the target’s supplier network;
−Removed: (vi) the expertise and experience of the target’s management and employees;
−Removed: (vii) the inventory condition of the target.
−Removed: management believes that successful acquisitions will bring synergies to our business and enhance our shareholders’
−Removed: Acquisition and Termination
−Removed: July 13, 2019, the Company and QHDX entered into an equity interest transfer agreement, which was later amended on September 12,
−Removed: 2019 (“Makaweng Agreement”), with Xingwen Wang, a shareholder and legal representative of Yunnan Makaweng Wine &
−Removed: Spirits Co., Ltd.
−Removed: (“Makaweng”), a PRC limited liability company engaged in the business of distribution of wine and
−Removed: Pursuant to the Makaweng Agreement, QHDX purchased 51% of Makaweng’s equity interest from Xingwen Wang in exchange
−Removed: for shares of our common stock (“Makaweng Issuable Shares”).
−Removed: On August 28, 2019, the registration of transferring
−Removed: the 51% of equity interest of Makaweng to QHDX with local government authorities was completed.
−Removed: December 3, 2020, QHDX and Xingwen Wang, an original shareholder of Makaweng, signed a share transfer agreement (the “Share
−Removed: Transfer Agreement”) pursuant to which the parties agreed that QHDX would transfer all of the 51% of equity interest of
−Removed: Makaweng it held to Mr.
−Removed: Upon the effectiveness of the Share Transfer Agreement, QHDX no longer owned an equity interest
−Removed: As of the date of the
−Removed: Share Transfer Agreement, the Company has not issued any common shares to Xingwen Wang and the control of Makaweng has
−Removed: never been transferred to QHDX.
−Removed: Acquisition and Termination
−Removed: December 30, 2019, the Company, along with QHDX, entered into an equity interest transfer agreement (the “BTF Agreement”)
−Removed: with shareholders (the “BTF Original Shareholders”) of Foshan BaiTaFeng Beverage Development Co., Ltd.
−Removed: (“BTF”),
−Removed: who collectively owned 100% equity interest of BTF, a limited liability company engaged in the business of bottling and distributing
−Removed: of drinking water in China.
−Removed: to the BTF Agreement, QHDX agreed to purchase 80% of BTF’s equity interest (the “BTF Equity Transfer”) from
−Removed: Chunbin Li, the legal representative and one of the BTF Original Shareholders of BTF (the “BTF Seller”), in exchange
−Removed: for shares of our common stock (“BTF Issuable Shares”).
−Removed: February 28, 2021, FVTI, QHDX and the Original Shareholders of BTF signed a termination agreement pursuant to which the parties
−Removed: mutually agreed to terminate the Agreement.
−Removed: The BTF Agreement was terminated effective as of February 28, 2021 and the parties
−Removed: have no further rights or obligations under the BTF Agreement.
−Removed: The parties further agreed to waive their rights to any claims
−Removed: that may arise under the BTF Agreement.
−Removed: As of the date of the termination agreement, no equity interest of BTF had been transferred
−Removed: Holdings Acquisition
−Removed: March 16, 2020, the Company, along with JJGS, entered into an equity interest transfer agreement (the “Valley Holdings Original
−Removed: Agreement”) with Valley Holdings Limited (“Valley Holdings”), a Hong Kong company, and Angel International
−Removed: Investment Holdings Limited (the “Valley Holdings Seller”), a 70% shareholder of Valley Holdings.
−Removed: Valley Holdings
−Removed: owns approximately 88.44% of the equity interest of Valley Foods Holdings (Guangzhou) Co., Ltd.
−Removed: (“Valley Food”), which
−Removed: is a limited liability company incorporated in China and engaged in the business of food wholesale and production and sale of
−Removed: food additives in China.
−Removed: to the Valley Holdings Agreement, JJGS agreed to purchase 70% of Valley Holdings’
−Removed: equity interest (the “Valley Holdings
−Removed: Equity Transfer”) from the Valley Holdings Seller in consideration of shares of FVTI’s common stock (“Valley
−Removed: Holdings Issuable Shares”) valued at $14 million (subject to adjustments in the event of Valley Holdings failing to meet
−Removed: a net profit of HK$5 million (approximately US$0.6 million) for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019).
−Removed: According to the Valley
−Removed: Holdings Agreement, the total number of Valley Holdings Issuable Shares will be determined based on the closing price of FVTI’s
−Removed: common stock as of the business day immediately preceding the date of the Valley Holdings Closing (as defined below).
−Removed: January 6, 2021, the parties entered into an agreement to terminate
−Removed: the Valley Holdings Original Agreement.
−Removed: Under the termination agreement, there were no termination penalties incurred by FVTI
−Removed: January 6, 2021, FVTI, along with its Hong Kong subsidiary, DILHK, entered into a new equity interest transfer agreement
−Removed: (the “Valley Holdings Agreement”) with the Seller and Valley Holdings.
−Removed: Pursuant to the agreement, DILHK
−Removed: agreed to purchase 70% of Valley Holdings’
−Removed: equity interest (the “Equity Transfer”) from the Seller in consideration
−Removed: of shares of FVTI’s common stock (“Issuable Shares”) valued at $12 million (subject to adjustments in the event
−Removed: Valley Holdings’
−Removed: net profit is more than HK$5 million (approximately US$0.6 million) or less than HK$3 million (approximately
−Removed: US$0.4 million) for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020).
−Removed: According to the agreement, the total number of Issuable Shares
−Removed: will be determined based on the average of the closing prices of FVTI’s common stock for the 30 business days preceding
−Removed: the date of the Closing (as defined below).
−Removed: closing of the Equity Transfer (the “Closing”) is intended to occur on or around April 30, 2021.
−Removed: Closing is subject to certain conditions, including but not limited to (a) completion of due diligence review of Valley
−Removed: Holdings and its subsidiaries to the satisfaction of DILHK, (b) completion of the initial draft of the audited consolidated
−Removed: financial statements of Valley Holdings for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019, (c) execution of non-competition agreements
−Removed: and confidentiality agreements with the senior management members of Valley Holdings and its subsidiaries, and (d) assignment
−Removed: to Valley Holdings of all of the intellectual property related to the operations of Valley Holdings and its subsidiaries.
−Removed: to the agreement, FVTI will issue the Issuable Shares to an escrow account for the beneficiary of the Seller within
−Removed: 30 business days after the Closing.
−Removed: The Issuable Shares shall be released from the escrow account to the Seller within
−Removed: 30 days upon an independent registered accounting firm’s written confirmation that Valley Holdings’
−Removed: audited net profit
−Removed: is at least HK$3 million (approximately US$0.4 million) for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020.
−Removed: ensure the continuous operations of Valley Holdings and its subsidiaries, the parties agreed that Valley Holdings and its subsidiaries
−Removed: will retain their existing employees and will enter into non-competition and employment agreements with all management members
+Added: (iv) the target’s existing customer base;
+Added: (v) the target’s
+Added: supplier network;
+Added: (vi) the expertise and experience of the target’s management and employees;
+Added: and (vii) the inventory condition
+Added: of the target.
+Added: January 6, 2021, we entered into an equity interest transfer agreement (the “Valley Holdings Agreement”) with Valley Holdings
+Added: Limited (“Valley Holdings”), a Hong Kong company, and Angel International Investment Holdings Limited (the “Valley
+Added: Holdings Seller”), a 70% shareholder of Valley Holdings.
+Added: Valley Holdings owns approximately 88.44% of the equity interest of Valley
+Added: Foods Holdings (Guangzhou) Co., Ltd.
+Added: (“Valley Food”), a limited liability company incorporated in China and engaged in the
+Added: business of food wholesale and production and sale of food additives in China.
+Added: Pursuant to the agreement, we would purchase 70% of Valley
+Added: Holdings’ equity interest from the Valley Holdings Seller in consideration of shares of our common stock valued at $10.5 million
+Added: (subject to certain adjustments).
+Added: According to the agreement, the total number of issuable shares will be determined based on the average
+Added: of the closing prices of our common stock for the 30 business days preceding the date of the closing.
+Added: closing of the acquisition has not occurred as of the date of the report as a result of delays in satisfaction of the closing
+Added: The closing is subject to certain conditions, including but not limited to (a) completion of due diligence review of Valley
+Added: Holdings and its subsidiaries to our satisfaction, (b) completion of the audited consolidated financial statements of Valley Holdings
+Added: as provided in the agreement, (c) execution of non-competition agreements and confidentiality agreements with the senior management members
+Added: of Valley Holdings and its subsidiaries, and (d) assignment to Valley Holdings of all of the intellectual property related to the operations
of Valley Holdings and its subsidiaries.
−Removed: The parties further agreed that Valley Holdings will not make any profit distributions
−Removed: within two years after the execution of the Agreement.
−Removed: DILHK or the Seller may terminate this Agreement
−Removed: in writing in the event that any closing condition is not met before April 30, 2021.
−Removed: As of the date of this report,
−Removed: the closing of the Valley Holdings Equity Transfer has not occurred.
−Removed: plan to diversify our existing product portfolio strategically, and thereby provide our customers with a wider range of choices
−Removed: and broaden our existing customer base.
−Removed: plan to continue to solidify our relationships with our existing suppliers as well as identifying new suppliers.
−Removed: plan to strengthen our corporate image by increasing marketing and promotion efforts.
−Removed: plan to attract, motivate and retain high-quality talent.
−Removed: will continue to expand and explore additional services and products to enrich our one-stop services to our customers.
−Removed: Business, Products and Product Distribution
−Removed: sell a variety of wines, such as dry red wine, dry white wine, rosé
−Removed: wine, and sweet wine.
+Added: industry and Market
+Added: obtained the industry and market data used throughout industry publications and research, studies and other similar third-party sources,
+Added: as well as our estimates based on such data.
+Added: All of the market data and estimates used in this report involve a number of
+Added: assumptions and limitations, and you are cautioned not to give undue weight to such data and estimates.
+Added: We believe that the data from
+Added: these third-party sources is reliable;
+Added: however, we have not independently verified the data, besides our business and the industry which
+Added: we are operating is subject to a high degree of risk and uncertainties.
+Added: in food and beverage market in China
+Added: to China Economic Vision, a research and consulting company with the research coverage mainly in China, the growth rate of food and beverage
+Added: market in China reached 6.28% in 2018 and then declined to 4.40% in 2019.
+Added: The decline was mainly due to the drop in demand of liquor
+Added: products and dairy products.
+Added: In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic led to a sharp decrease in the growth rate of the industry, the market
+Added: reached RMB4,590.2 billion, and a year-over-year (“YoY”) growth of 0.86%.
+Added: The decrease in the growth rate was mainly due
+Added: to the quarantine measures implemented in some areas, store and office closures, lockdown and social gatherings restrictions to control
+Added: the COVID-19 outbreaks in China.
+Added: and Beverage Market Scale in China from 2016 to 2020
+Added: China Economic Vision
+Added: Economic Vision estimated that, with the orderly recovery of the overall economic and the upgrading of product consumption structure,
+Added: the food and beverage industry will develop favorably in the future, but the growth rate will slow down.
+Added: The food and beverage market
+Added: in China is expected to reach RMB5608.8 billion by 2025, and a YoY growth of 3.45%.
+Added: and Beverage Market Forecast in China from 2021 to 2025
+Added: China Economic Vision
+Added: of alcohol beverage market in China
+Added: In 2018, the growth rate of alcohol beverage market
+Added: in China reached 10.68% driven by multiple factors, such as industrial restructure adjustment, consumption upgrading,
+Added: and the rapidly growth of the Baijiu (Chinese alcohol beverage) industry.
+Added: In 2019, the growth rate dropped to 2.21%
+Added: because the market returned to rationality which caused the decrease of Baijiu sales;
+Added: the downtrend of domestic wine production
+Added: and the reduction of imported wines.
+Added: 2020, the alcohol beverage products market scale in China reached RMB 859.6 billion, and the YoY negative growth of 0.22%.
+Added: It was mainly
+Added: due to the city lockdown order and the prohibition of social gatherings.
+Added: Beverage Products Market in China from 2016 to 2020
+Added: China Economic Vision
+Added: Economic Vision estimated that, although the pandemic has brought uncertainties to the alcohol beverage products market, the trend of
+Added: raising quality standard of production for the alcohol beverage products market has never changed.
+Added: Alcohol consumption has gradually
+Added: changed from basic consumption to personalized and diversified high-quality consumption.
+Added: With the orderly recovery of the consumption
+Added: in China, the market will continue to develop steadily in the future.
+Added: The alcohol beverage products market in China is expected to reach
+Added: 997.8 billion in RMB by 2025, and a YoY growth of 2.24%.
+Added: Beverage Products Market Forecast in China from 2021 to 2025
+Added: of bottled water market in China
+Added: bottled water industry in China has a vigorous development in recent years.
+Added: More household users have changed their drinking water habits
+Added: and demanded for high-quality drinking water, especially natural mineral water, which has been the major driver for the growth in bottled
+Added: water products (with natural mineral).
+Added: The bottled water market in China reached RMB107.8 billion in 2019, with a YoY growth of 20.58%.
+Added: to China Economic Vision, a large number of companies, which were the main consumers of the bottled water market, stopped the operation
+Added: and production and reduced their use of bottled water the during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
+Added: In addition, to avoid the risk of spreading
+Added: the COVID-19, people are recommended to use the bottled water only without returning buckets and promoted to use one-time disposable
+Added: packaged water.
+Added: These measures caused the decline in the demand for bottled water.
+Added: The bottled water market in China reached RMB113.6
+Added: billion in 2020, and the YoY growth of 5.38%.
+Added: Water Market in China from 2016 to 2020
+Added: China Economic Vision
+Added: with bottled water, disposable medium and large packaged water has better quality and consumption experience, and its cost is lower than
+Added: the bottled water, which is suitable for the household consumption.
+Added: Based on China Economic Vision’s estimate, even with
+Added: the gradual replacement of disposable medium and large packaged water, it will have a limited impact on the bottled water market
+Added: in the short term, but the growth rate of bottled water market will slow down in the long run.
+Added: The bottled water market in China
+Added: is expected to reach RMB223.7 billion by 2025, and the YoY growth was 14.13%.
+Added: Water Market Forecast in China from 2021 to 2025
+Added: China Economic Vision
+Added: sell a variety of wines, such as dry red wine, dry white wine, rosé wine, and sweet wine.
Currently we sell about 40 different
1 unchanged sentence
sell a variety of water, peanut oil, soybean oil and blended oil.
−Removed: Currently we sell about 30 different brands of water and 3
−Removed: different brands of oil.
+Added: Currently we sell about 30 different brands of water and 3 different
+Added: brands of oil.
have put significant efforts in developing and promoting our brand name in different regions of China.
−Removed: Our products are mainly
−Removed: sold to retailers, such as wine and water retail stores, convenience stores and supermarkets.
−Removed: The selling price varies
−Removed: by quantities of products each retailer orders from us.
−Removed: have cultivated business relationships and achieved recognitions with different organizations over the years, which have improved
−Removed: our business and management efficacy.
−Removed: Specifically, we have been collaborating with Shenzhen Institute of Tsinghua University
−Removed: since 2011, who has been helping us develop an innovative management model, operating model and franchising model.
−Removed: been a member of Guangdong Provincial Liquor Industry Association since 2011.
+Added: Our products are mainly sold to
+Added: retailers, such as wine and water retail stores, convenience stores and supermarkets.
+Added: The selling price varies by quantities of products
+Added: each retailer orders from us.
+Added: have cultivated business relationships and achieved recognitions with different organizations over the years, which have improved our
+Added: business and management efficacy.
+Added: Specifically, we have been collaborating with Shenzhen Institute of Tsinghua University since 2011,
+Added: who has been helping us develop an innovative management model, operating model and franchising model.
+Added: We have been a member of Guangdong
+Added: Provincial Liquor Industry Association since 2011.
wine product operations are based in Humen Town, Dongguan City.
−Removed: We lease a six-floor building with a total floor
−Removed: area of 1,200 square meters.
−Removed: Our wine retail store is located on the first floor which we use exclusively as
−Removed: a retail store and for sample products display.
−Removed: We use the remaining five floors as the Company’s conference room, offices
+Added: We lease a six-floor building with a total floor area of 1,200 square
+Added: Our wine retail store is located on the first floor which we use exclusively as a retail store and for sample products display.
+Added: We use the remaining five floors as the Company’s conference room, offices and storage.
water and oil product management office is also located in Humen Town, Dongguan City.
−Removed: We lease the building which has
−Removed: over 1,300 square meters.
+Added: We lease the building which has over 1,300 square
It includes sales, customer service, warehouse, delivery and finance departments.
−Removed: manages one office, seven wholesales stores and one warehouse.
−Removed: We also maintain one registered office for the subsidiary
−Removed: with lease term of three years.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2020, the Company has total twelve separate operating lease agreements for
−Removed: three office spaces, one warehouse and eight stores in PRC with remaining lease terms of from 21 months to 76 months.
−Removed: have developed our WeChat applet “FVTI food safety & healthy supply platform”
−Removed: (short name “Fu Gu Online”).
+Added: The office manages one office, seven wholesales
+Added: stores and one warehouse.
+Added: We also maintain one registered office for the subsidiary with lease term of three years.
+Added: As of December 31,
+Added: 2021, the Company has total three office spaces, one warehouse and thirteen stores in PRC with remaining lease terms of from
+Added: 21 months to 76 months.
+Added: have developed our WeChat applet “FVTI food safety & healthy supply platform” (short name “Fu Gu Online”).
Some of our agents and wholesalers have ordered from this platform.
+Added: purchase, distribute and sell a wide range of beverage and foods through our supply chain online platform and offline sales channels.
+Added: We also develop some of the water products we distribute.
+Added: We offer the following four categories of food and beverage products:
+Added: of brands offered
+Added: Alcohol beverage
+Added: Liquor/Spirits
+Added: Non-alcohol beverage
+Added: Packaged staple foods
+Added: and seasonings
+Added: Household products
+Added: purification system
+Added: Wine and Liquor Products
+Added: offer a variety of wine products including dry red wine, dry white wine, rose wine and sweet wine.
+Added: Our liquor products include imported
+Added: liquor and domestically produced spirits.
+Added: We currently sell over 30 different types of wine, liquor and spirits products.
+Added: launched our brand “Falantu Art Winery,” with the goal to cultivate a wine-centered food and art culture, advocate healthy
+Added: living, and bring romance to people’s lives.
+Added: Our supply chain brings together high-quality wines from most major French producing
+Added: regions and selected wine production countries.
+Added: We forge alliance relationship with vineyards at French Burgundy (Bourgogne), Bordeaux
+Added: (Bordeaux), Chile’s Central Valley, Spanish wineries and other high-quality wine makers.
+Added: To increase our market share, we have
+Added: set up multiple branches in Guangdong, China, to promote wine sale and wine culture to Chinese consumers.
+Added: Bottled Water and Soft Beverage Products
+Added: drinking water products we sell mainly include bottled water of different sizes.
+Added: The sources of our bottled water are from tap water
+Added: or extracted groundwater.
+Added: In addition to selling on our supply chain platform, these different brands of bottled water are available
+Added: at supermarkets, grocery stores, other E-commerce platforms, and through the manufacturer’s distributors.
+Added: currently sell 36 different brands of bottled water products.
+Added: In response to consumer preferences, our water products are packaged in
+Added: individual containers of difference sizes, ranging from small single serving bottles of 380 milliliter to 750 milliliters, to medium-sized
+Added: jugs of 1.5 to 5 liter and large 15 to 19 liter carboys.
+Added: Below are some of branded bottled water products that have generated large sales
+Added: volume on our supply chain platform.
+Added: Pre-package Foods
+Added: foods include various brands of edible oils, condiments and seasonings.
+Added: have selected to sell edible oil based on their quality and popularity among the customers
+Added: (b) Condiments
+Added: and seasonings
+Added: offer a variety of kitchen condiment products on the platform, and through multiple layers of screening, brands that are widely welcomed
+Added: by consumers in the Pearl River Delta region are selected.
+Added: Household drinking water purification products
+Added: sells a series drinking household water treatment systems and devices that improve water quality and healthy lifestyle.
+Added: whole house water purification systems and water filtration devices.
+Added: are continuously seeking new and suitable brands of products for sales to enrich our product varieties.
+Added: We have recently added several
+Added: new brands of wine and liquor products to our product portfolio.
+Added: We aim to offer more high-quality wine and liquor products for our customers.
+Added: Providing a wide variety of wine and liquor products to the customers will continue to be our alcohol beverage segment operational strategies.
+Added: Product Distribution / Supply Chain Operations
+Added: supply chain system manages the entire process of product procurement, warehousing, distribution, logistics and delivery.
+Added: digital management system, we can fully track our products from upstream suppliers to downstream end customers.
+Added: emphasize to provide products with high standard of food safety and quality, therefore we carefully select high quality products.
+Added: conduct market research and supplier information review to select manufacturers and products, and carry out our own and third parties
+Added: sample testing on their products to ensure the product with high quality and safety.
+Added: When we completed the selection process with satisfactory
+Added: results, we will sign a contact with the suppliers to purchase selected products from selected manufactures and seek to maintain a long-term
+Added: cooperation relationship to secure stable supply and quality control.
+Added: To maintain the standard of food safety and quality, we conduct
+Added: sample checking on the products on a regular basis and evaluate the suppliers’ performance annually.
+Added: mainly have two types of customers:
+Added: retailer customers and wholesale distributors.
+Added: For the year ended December 31, 2019, sales to one
+Added: customer accounted for 10% or more of our revenue and approximately 80% of our revenue were generated from that customer.
+Added: we had successfully expanded our customer base and launched more products.
+Added: As a result, none of our customers accounted for 10% or more
+Added: of our revenue.
+Added: We have generated income from a wider range of customers for the years ended December 31, 2021 and
+Added: recognized brand
+Added: believe that our brand image and reputation give us a distinct competitive advantage among the food and beverage companies in Guangdong
+Added: Province and the Pearl Delta Region.
+Added: Since the launch of our wine distribution business in 2011, we have demonstrated a strong brand
+Added: advantage in the food and beverage industry and become a well-recognized brand among consumers in the geographic areas in which we operate,
+Added: especially in Guangdong Province.
+Added: In recent years, our offline sales mainly in Dongguan City, and online sales have covered major online
+Added: sales channels.
+Added: With a greater brand influence and revenue growth, we are able to further strengthen our product procurement capacity.
+Added: Our growing business scale, increasingly diversified sales channels and reliable product supplies have further promoted our company’s
+Added: brand awareness and influence.
+Added: The strength of our brands facilitates the organic growth of customer traffic on our platform, enhances
+Added: buyer loyalty and attracts more sellers to our platform.
+Added: quality product portfolio
+Added: have built a diversified product portfolio spanning primarily from alcohol beverage and drinking water, to pre-packaged staple foods,
+Added: condiments, and household water purification devices and systems.
+Added: A diversified product mix enables us to enhance our company’s
+Added: sales volume and market influence.
+Added: We strive to create a one-stop shopping experience and become one of the first places for food shopping
+Added: for consumers.
+Added: independently manage the core links of the food and beverage industry supply chain and achieve product quality control through supplier
+Added: access, quality inspection and other measures.
+Added: Leveraging our information technology capability, we utilize our information management
+Added: platform to effectively control all links in the industry chain to achieve the full traceability of product quality.
+Added: product supply chain system
+Added: manage the entire process of product procurement, distribution, logistics, and delivery through our supply chain system.
+Added: Our supply chain
+Added: e-commerce platform is our central control hub that is facilitated by logistics management to ensure product supply and quality management
+Added: to reinforce safety and quality assurance.
+Added: We continuously strengthen cooperation with reputable suppliers to form a stable and long-term
+Added: relationship and optimize procurement costs while ensuring product quality.
+Added: On product source, our supply planning team, based on the
+Added: sales history and trend forecasts of various channels, analyzes and forecasts sales and supply, formulate procurement plans, and improve
+Added: procurement efficiency.
+Added: We also formulate a complete product quality control system to enhance product quality assurance.
+Added: Through continuous
+Added: optimization and management of supply planning, logistics management and quality assurance, we have improved product procurement efficiency
+Added: and order management capabilities while ensuring high product quality.
+Added: Multi-channel
+Added: marketing and sales model
+Added: have established a multi-channel marketing and sales model consisting of e-commerce supply chain platform, social media, primarily WeChat,
+Added: distributor network, key customer channels, product displays at our brick and mortar stores, and community promotions.
+Added: Our Fugu Online
+Added: platform not only identifies potential customers and market products and services to targeted groups based on data collected through
+Added: our information systems, it also serves as our O2O management platform, which can provide marketing services to traditional merchants.
+Added: Our online and offline bulk sales through our agents and independent distributors help enhance the brand awareness of our products among
+Added: end customers and collect feedback for us to improve our product selection and management.
+Added: Our key customer and large enterprise sales
+Added: channels, online and offline promotions, and community activities all offer loyalty rewards to key customers.
+Added: Our brand reputation and
+Added: cross-selling across our platform further strengthen our ability to retain customers and drive revenue growth.
+Added: in class customer services management
+Added: a food industry enterprise, we have been focused on improving the consumer shopping experience since our establishment, have built a
+Added: customer-oriented corporate culture and best in class customer service capabilities.
+Added: Combining with our own brand positioning, we promote
+Added: a corporate culture with a customer first mindset with the highest quality service as our purpose.
+Added: We are committed to improving customer
+Added: satisfaction and loyalty.
+Added: We improve the pre-sales and after-sales service system to enhance consumer stickiness.
+Added: Further, we have established
+Added: a membership system to promote customer loyalty.
+Added: We are able to conduct a more in-depth analysis of customer needs and historical buying
+Added: habits through the purchase tracking, which provides us with valuable information related to future product procurement and marketing
+Added: our product portfolio and provide our customers with a wider range of choices
+Added: believe continuous expansion of our existing product portfolio and accommodation of evolving demand and customers’ preferences
+Added: will distinguish us from our competitors, while providing our customers with a wider range of choices will facilitate the broadening
+Added: of our customer base as well as reinforcing our market presence in wine industry.
+Added: to solidify our relationships with supply chain participants
+Added: intend to continue solidifying our relationship with our existing suppliers as well as identifying new suppliers.
+Added: We intend to increase
+Added: our market share by diversifying our existing product portfolio and procuring products which we anticipate demand.
+Added: We believe that our
+Added: strategic diversification will further complement our existing product portfolio, enhance our product mix and strengthen our market position
+Added: in the food and beverage industry in China.
+Added: our corporate image by increasing marketing and promotion efforts.
+Added: believe our brands and reputation are critical to our business development.
+Added: To further enhance customer awareness of our brands, we
+Added: will continue our effective and targeted marketing efforts.
+Added: This may include (i) placing mass media commercials, (ii) advertising in
+Added: newspapers, magazines, the internet, billboards and banners, and (iii) sponsoring programs.
+Added: We also utilize innovative multimedia
+Added: promotional channels such as social media and mobile phone applications.
+Added: motivate and retain high-quality talent.
+Added: customer-oriented business philosophy emphases on delivering excellent customer service.
+Added: We believe maintaining a positive working environment
+Added: will encourage better staff relations and talent retention, as well as enhancing the quality of our customer service by motivating staff.
+Added: In order to foster a work environment that attracts and inspires our people to achieve excellent performance, we seek to motivate and
+Added: retain valuable and talented staff by aligning compensation and remuneration with performance.
+Added: As part of our continuing efforts to enhance
+Added: our customer service, we will also continue to enhance our employee training programs by developing our orientation program, coaching,
+Added: on-the-job training to enhance individual staff skills and knowledge of sales and marketing techniques, customer services, product information,
+Added: quality control and industry knowledge.
+Added: opportunities to acquire quality companies in the food and beverage industry for further development of our company.
+Added: of our key corporate strategies has been to expand our market share through acquiring quality businesses in the food and beverage industries,
+Added: in order to increase our customer base and supply channels, as well as to acquire more skilled employees and business connections in
+Added: the industries.
+Added: We have previously successfully acquired Xixingdao, a drinking water distribution and delivery company.
+Added: continue to explore new opportunities to acquire additional quality and compatible businesses in our industries.
+Added: Our management believes
+Added: that successful acquisitions will bring synergies to our business and increase long term value to our shareholders.
+Added: and explore additional services and products to enrich our one-stop services to our customers.
+Added: will continue to strive to provide our customers with the convenience of our one-stop shopping experience and a wide variety of unique,
+Added: quality products at reasonable and competitive prices.
+Added: We believe this is one of the keys to differentiating ourselves from our competitors
+Added: in the food and beverage industry in China.
+Added: To further strengthen our services, we will continue to refine our product related services
+Added: to our customers by enhancing our product consultation services, sourcing services, delivery services, and post-sale evaluation with
+Added: improved customer service and service options.
+Added: With our continued expansion and dedication to exploring additional product related services
+Added: to amplify our one-stop services to our customers, we believe we can strengthen and maintain our position in the food and beverage industry
+Added: Required from the PRC Authorities to Operate and Securities Listing and Issuance
+Added: required for the Operations of Our PRC Subsidiaries
+Added: PRC subsidiaries are required to obtain certain permits and licenses from the PRC government agencies to operate our business in China,
+Added: (a) business licenses, (b) food business licenses, and (c) Electronic Data Interchange License (“EDI”) license.
+Added: conduct our business in China through our PRC subsidiaries.
+Added: All of our PRC subsidiaries are required to obtain, and have obtained, the
+Added: required business licenses from the State Administration for Market Regulation (“SAMR”).
+Added: The PRC Food Safety Law mandates
+Added: a licensing system for food production and trade and requires vendors engaging in food production or sale or catering services to obtain
+Added: a food business license in accordance with the applicable laws.
+Added: Among our PRC subsidiaries, the following thirteen companies are required
+Added: to obtain food business licenses and have received such licenses pursuant to the PRC Food Safety Law:
+Added: Dongguan City FVT Supply Chain
+Added: Technology Co., Ltd.
+Added: (“FVTL or FVT Supply Chain”), Dongguan Xixingdao Technology Co., Ltd.
+Added: (“Xixingdao”), Dongguan
+Added: City Fu La Tu Trade Co., Ltd.
+Added: (“FLTT”), Dongguan City Fu Xin Gu Trade Co., Ltd.
+Added: (“FXGT”), Dongguan City Fu Lai
+Added: Food Co., Ltd.
+Added: (“FLFL”), Dongguan City Fu Xin Technology Co., Ltd.
+Added: (“FXTL”), Dongguan City Fu Xiang Technology
+Added: Co., Ltd (“FGTL”), Dongguan City Fu Ji Food & Beverage Co., Ltd.
+Added: (“FJFL”), Dongguan City Fu Yi Beverage Co.,
+Added: (“FYBL”), Dongguan City Fu Jing Technology Co., Ltd.
+Added: (“FJTL”), Dongguan City Fu Sheng Drinking Water Co.
+Added: (“FSWL”), Dongguan City Fu Jia Drinking Water Co., Ltd.
+Added: (“FJWL”), and Shenzhen Fu Jin Trading Technology
+Added: Therefore, these thirteen subsidiaries have the required government permits to engage in food purchase
+Added: and sale activities.
+Added: However, a food business license is not required for the sale of edible agricultural products and prepacked food.
+Added: Companies engaged in the sale of prepacked food must report to the food safety regulatory agencies of the local government for recordation.
+Added: Four of our subsidiaries, Dongguan City Fu Guan Healthy Industry Technology Co., Ltd.
+Added: (“FGHL”), Dongguan City Fu Xi Drinking
+Added: Water Co., Ltd.
+Added: (“FXWL”), Dongguan City Fu Li Trading Co., Ltd.
+Added: (“FLTL”) and Guangdong Fu Gu Supply Chain Group
+Added: (“FGGC” or “FG Supply Chain”), are subject to such reporting requirement and are in the process of
+Added: completing the recordation procedure.
+Added: Guangdong provincial government has not issued detailed implementation rules, and as such, changes
+Added: in rules and regulations may impose additional requirements for our subsidiaries in China.
+Added: relevant PRC Telecommunications Regulations require a telecommunication service provider in China to obtain an operating license from
+Added: the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, or MIIT, or its provincial counterparts, prior to commencement of operations.
+Added: subsidiary, FVT Supply Chain, engages in food, beverage and related product purchases and sales via its online platform.
+Added: As a provider
+Added: of online data processing and transaction processing services, FVT Supply Chain is required to obtain an Electronic Data Interchange
+Added: (EDI) license and has obtained the EDI license.
+Added: The relevant PRC regulations, including the Classification Catalogue of Telecommunications
+Added: Services, are still evolving, and there have been limited guidance and interpretation with respect to the scope of various types of telecommunication
+Added: We may be subject to additional license requirements if we further expand our online operations and services.
+Added: addition, on November 14, 2021, the CAC published the Regulations of Internet Data Security Management (Draft for Comments) (the “Internet
+Added: Data Security Regulations”), which further regulate the internet data processing activities and emphasize the supervision and management
+Added: of network data security, and further stipulate the obligations of internet platform operators, such as to establish a system for disclosure
+Added: of platform rules, privacy policies and algorithmic strategies related to data.
+Added: The draft regulations require data processors to (i)
+Added: adopt immediate remediation measures when finding that network products and services they use or provide have security defects and vulnerabilities,
+Added: or threaten national security or endanger public interest, and (ii) follow a series of detailed requirements with respect to processing
+Added: of personal information, management of important data and proposed overseas transfer of data.
+Added: As of the date of this report,
+Added: the draft regulations have not been adopted and the final provisions are subject to changes.
+Added: If the above proposed regulations are adopted
+Added: as proposed, based on our initial evaluation, while we have implemented some of the data security measures, we would not be in full compliance
+Added: with the new draft regulations.
+Added: We are also still evaluating any additional necessary actions we should take pursuant to the proposed
+Added: regulations to satisfy the personal information protection and internet data security regulatory requirements.
+Added: Failure to comply with
+Added: the effective cybersecurity, data privacy and internet data security regulatory requirements in a timely manner may subject us to government
+Added: enforcement actions and investigations, fines, penalties, suspension or disruption of our operations, among other things.
+Added: December 28, 2021, the CAC, NDRC, and several other agencies jointly issued the Cybersecurity Review Measures, or the Measures,
+Added: which took effect on February 15, 2022 and replaced the previously issued Revised Measures for Cybersecurity Review.
+Added: Under the Measures, an “online platform operator” in possession of personal data of more than one million users must apply
+Added: for a cybersecurity review if it intends to list its securities on a foreign stock exchange.
+Added: The operators of critical information infrastructure
+Added: purchasing network products and services, and the online platform operators (together with the operators of critical information infrastructure,
+Added: the “Operators”) carrying out data processing activities that affect or may affect national security, shall conduct a cybersecurity
+Added: review, and any online platform operator who controls more than one million users’ personal information must go through a cybersecurity
+Added: review by the cybersecurity review office if it seeks to be listed in a foreign country.
+Added: Pursuant to the Measures, we don’t believe
+Added: we will be subject to the cybersecurity review by the CAC, given that (i) we possess personal information of a relatively small number
+Added: of users in our business operations as of the date of this report, significantly less than the one million user threshold set
+Added: for a data processing operator applying for listing on a foreign exchange that is required to pass such cybersecurity review;
+Added: data processed in our business does not have a bearing on national security and thus shall not be classified as core or important data
+Added: by the authorities.
+Added: We don’t believe that we are an Operator within the meaning of the Measures, nor do we control more than one
+Added: million users’ personal information, and as such, we should not be required to apply for a cybersecurity review under the Measures.
+Added: However, in view of the fact that the Measures was released recently and there is a general lack of guidance and substantial uncertainties
+Added: exist with respect to their interpretation and implementation.
+Added: For example, there is still no clear definition of “online platform
+Added: operator.” Whether the data processing activities carried out by traditional enterprises (such as food, medicine, automobile and
+Added: other production enterprises) are subject to such review and the scope of the review remain to be further clarified by the regulatory
+Added: authorities in the subsequent implementation process.
+Added: regard to the current effective data security management regulations, we don’t believe that we are required to conduct data security
+Added: review for listing overseas.
+Added: However, according to the Regulations on Network Data Security Management (Draft for Comment), as an overseas
+Added: listed company, we will be required to conduct an annual data security review and to comply with the relevant reporting obligations.
+Added: We have been closely monitoring the development in the regulatory landscape in China, particularly regarding the requirement of approvals,
+Added: including on a retrospective basis, from the CSRC, the CAC or other PRC authorities with respect to this offering, as well as regarding
+Added: any annual data security review or other procedures that may be imposed on us.
+Added: If any approval, review or other procedure is in fact
+Added: required, we cannot assure you that we will be able to obtain such approval or complete such review or other procedure timely or at all.
+Added: For any approval that we may be able to obtain, it could nevertheless be revoked and the terms of its issuance may impose restrictions
+Added: on our operations and offerings relating to our securities.
+Added: The regulatory requirements with respect to cybersecurity and data privacy
+Added: are constantly evolving and can be subject to varying interpretations, and significant changes, resulting in uncertainties about the
+Added: scope of our responsibilities in that regard.
+Added: Failure to comply with the cybersecurity and data privacy requirements in a timely manner,
+Added: or at all, may subject us to government enforcement actions and investigations, fines, penalties, suspension or disruption of our operations,
+Added: among other things.
+Added: See “Risk Factor — The Chinese government may intervene or influence the operations of our PRC subsidiaries
+Added: and exercise significant oversight and discretion over the conduct of their business and may intervene in or influence their operations
+Added: at any time, which could result in a material change in operations of our PRC subsidiaries and/or the value of our common stock”;“Risk
+Added: Factor — Recent regulatory developments in China, including greater oversight and control by the CAC over data security, particularly
+Added: for companies seeking to list on a foreign exchange, may subject us to additional regulatory review or otherwise restrict our ability
+Added: to raise capitals outside China;
+Added: and any actions by the Chinese government to exert more oversight and control over overseas securities
+Added: offerings could significantly limit or completely hinder our ability to offer or continue to offer securities to investors and cause
+Added: the value of such securities to significantly decline or be worthless.”
+Added: Required to Issue Securities
+Added: are subject to PRC rules and regulations relating to overseas listing and securities offering, and a substantial extension of the PRC
+Added: government’s oversight over our business operations or overseas listings may hinder our ability to offer or continue to offer our
+Added: Based on PRC laws and regulations effective as of the date of this report and subject to different interpretations
+Added: of these laws and regulations that may be adopted by PRC authorities, we believe that, as of the date of this report, we or
+Added: our PRC subsidiaries are not required to obtain any permission from the CSRC, the CAC, or any other PRC authority in connection with
+Added: this offering.
+Added: As a result, we have not submitted any application to the CSRC, the CAC or other PRC authorities for the approval of this
+Added: offering or the Nasdaq listing.
+Added: As of the date of this report, we and our PRC subsidiaries have not received any inquiry,
+Added: notice, warning or objection in relation to this offering or Nasdaq listing from the CSRC, the CAC or any other PRC authorities.
+Added: August 8, 2006, six PRC regulatory agencies, including the Ministry of Commerce, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration
+Added: Commission, the State Administration for Taxation, the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, CSRC and the State Administration
+Added: for Foreign Exchange (“SAFE”), jointly issued the Regulations on Mergers and Acquisitions of Domestic Enterprises by Foreign
+Added: Investors (the “M&A Rule”), effective on September 8, 2006 and amended on June 22, 2009.
+Added: The M&A Rule requires that
+Added: an offshore special purpose vehicle (“SPV”) formed for listing purposes and controlled directly or indirectly by Chinese
+Added: companies or individuals shall obtain the approval of the CSRC prior to the listing and trading of such SPV’s securities on an
+Added: overseas stock exchange.
+Added: On September 21, 2006, the CSRC published procedures specifying documents and materials required to be submitted
+Added: to it by an SPV seeking CSRC approval of overseas listings.
+Added: However, the provisions of the M&A Rule remain ambiguous as to the scope
+Added: and applicability of the CSRC approval requirement.
+Added: The CSRC has not issued any definitive rule or interpretations.
+Added: Based on the current
+Added: PRC law, rules and regulations, our Chinese legal counsel, Grandall Law Firm, is of the opinion that the M&A Rule and related regulations
+Added: do not require the Company or PRC subsidiaries to obtain prior approval from CSRC for the listing and trading of our shares on an overseas
+Added: securities market, given that our wholly foreign-owned enterprise subsidiaries were established by direct investment, rather than by
+Added: a merger with or an acquisition of any PRC domestic companies as defined under the M&A Rule.
+Added: However, there remains uncertainty as
+Added: to how the M&A Rules will be interpreted or implemented, and the opinions of our PRC counsel are subject to any new laws, rules and
+Added: regulations or detailed implementations and interpretations in any form relating to the M&A Rules.
+Added: We cannot assure you that the
+Added: relevant Chinese government agencies, including the CSRC, will reach the same conclusion.
+Added: July 6, 2021, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council
+Added: jointly issued the Opinions on Severely Cracking Down on Illegal Securities Activities According to Law, or the Opinions.
+Added: emphasize the need to strengthen the administration over illegal securities activities and the supervision over overseas listings by
+Added: Chinese companies.
+Added: Effective measures, such as promoting the construction of relevant regulatory systems, will be taken to address risks
+Added: and incidents of China-based companies that are listed overseas, cybersecurity issues, data privacy protection requirements and other
+Added: similar matters.
+Added: As of the date of this report, no official guidance or related implementation rules have been issued, and
+Added: our PRC counsel is of the opinion that this offering does not constitute illegal securities activities under the Opinions.
+Added: the Company has obtained all requisite licenses and operational permits and none of our permits has been denied.
+Added: Notwithstanding the
+Added: forgoing, there are still uncertainties as to how the Opinions will be interpreted and implemented by the relevant PRC governmental authorities.
+Added: addition, on December 28, 2021, the CAC, the National Development and Reform Commission (“NDRC”), and several other governmental
+Added: agencies jointly issued the Revised Measures for Cybersecurity Review, or the Revised Cybersecurity Measures, which took effect
+Added: on February 15, 2022.
+Added: Under the Revised Cybersecurity Measures, an “online platform operator” in possession of personal data
+Added: of more than one million users must apply for a cybersecurity review if it intends to list its securities on a foreign stock exchange.
+Added: The operators of critical information infrastructure purchasing network products and services, and the online platform operators (together
+Added: with the operators of critical information infrastructure, the “Operators”) carrying out data processing activities that
+Added: affect or may affect national security, shall conduct a cybersecurity review, and any online platform operator who controls more than
+Added: one million users’ personal information must go through a cybersecurity review by the cybersecurity review office if it seeks to
+Added: be listed in a foreign country.
+Added: December 24, 2021, the CSRC issued the Administrative Provisions of the State Council Regarding the Overseas Issuance and Listing of
+Added: Securities by Domestic Enterprises (the “Draft Administrative Provisions”) and the Measures for the Overseas Issuance of
+Added: Securities and Listing Record-Filings by Domestic Enterprises (Draft for Comments) (the “Draft Filing Measures”), collectively,
+Added: the Draft Overseas Listing Rules, which are currently published for public comments only.
+Added: The Draft Overseas Listing Rules require that
+Added: companies applying for overseas securities issuance, listing, and post-listing capital operations, including IPO, multi-listing, spin-off
+Added: listing, SPAC, refinancing, issuance for asset acquisitions, equity incentives, changes of control and certain other transactions, shall
+Added: be subject to statutory procedures, such as filing and information reporting requirement.
+Added: According to the Draft Overseas Listing Rules,
+Added: among other things, after making initial applications with overseas stock markets for offerings or listings, all China-based companies
+Added: shall file with the CSRC within three business days.
+Added: In addition, overseas offerings and listings may be prohibited for such China-based
+Added: companies when any of the following applies:
+Added: (a) if the securities offerings and listings are prohibited by applicable PRC laws and rules;
+Added: (b) if securities offerings and listings may constitute a threat to, or endanger national security as reviewed and determined by PRC
+Added: (c) if there are material ownership disputes over applicants’ equity interests, major assets, core technologies or
+Added: (d) if a PRC company or its controlling shareholders or de facto controllers have committed certain crimes, under investigation
+Added: for suspicion of major violations in the prior three years;
+Added: (e) if any directors, supervisors, or senior executives of applicants have
+Added: been subject to administrative punishments for severe violations, or are under investigations for crimes or major violations;
+Added: other circumstances as provided.
+Added: The Draft Administrative Provisions further stipulate that a fine between RMB 1 million and RMB 10 million
+Added: may be imposed if a company fails to fulfill the filing requirements with the CSRC or conducts an overseas offering or listing in violation
+Added: of the Draft Overseas Listing Rules.
+Added: In the case of severe violations, an order to suspend relevant businesses or halt operations for
+Added: rectification may be issued, and relevant business permits or operational license revoked.
+Added: issuance and listings subject to the Draft Overseas Listing Rules include direct and indirect issuance and listings.
+Added: Where an enterprise
+Added: whose principal business activities are conducted in PRC seeks to issue and list its shares in the name of an overseas enterprise based
+Added: on equity ownership, assets, income or other similar rights and interests of an PRC domestic enterprise, such activities are deemed an
+Added: indirect overseas issuance and listing (the “Indirect Overseas Issuance and Listing”) under the Draft Overseas Listing Rules.
+Added: Our PRC counsel has advised us that this offering and the proposed listing of our shares on Nasdaq Capital Market would be deemed an
+Added: Indirect Overseas Issuance and Listing under the Draft Overseas Listing Rules and will be required to complete the filing procedures
+Added: and submit the relevant information to CSRC after the Draft Overseas Listing Rules become effective.
+Added: As of the date hereof, the rules
+Added: have not become effective and we are not required to complete the filing procedures if we complete the offering and transferring the
+Added: trading of our securities on the Nasdaq before the rules take effect.
+Added: In addition, our PRC counsel advised us that, even if the filing
+Added: procedures are implemented, we would only submit the filing materials as provided by the rules and no CSRC approve is required under
+Added: Because we are relying on an opinion of counsel, there is uncertainty inherent in relying on an opinion of counsel in connection
+Added: with whether we are required to obtain permissions from a governmental agency that is required to approve of our operations and/or listings.
+Added: the CSRC requires that we obtain its approval prior to the completion of this offering, the offering would be delayed until we have obtained
+Added: CSRC approval, which may take several months.
+Added: There is also the possibility that we may not be able to obtain or maintain such approval
+Added: or that we inadvertently concluded that such approval was not required.
+Added: If prior CSRC approval was required while we inadvertently concluded
+Added: that such approval was not required or if applicable laws and regulations or the interpretation of such were modified to require us to
+Added: obtain the CSRC approval in the future, we may face regulatory actions or other sanctions from the CSRC or other Chinese regulatory authorities.
+Added: These authorities may impose fines and penalties upon our subsidiaries’ operations in China, limit our operating privileges in
+Added: China, delay or restrict the repatriation of the proceeds from this offering into China, or take other actions that could have a material
+Added: adverse effect upon our business, financial condition, results of operations, reputation and prospects, as well as the trading price
+Added: of our common stock.
+Added: The CSRC or other Chinese regulatory agencies may also take actions requiring us, or making it advisable for us,
+Added: to terminate this offering prior to closing.
+Added: Any failure of us to fully comply with new regulatory requirements may significantly limit
+Added: or completely hinder our ability to offer or continue to offer the common stock, causing significant disruption to our business operations,
+Added: severely damage our reputation, materially and adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations and cause the common
+Added: stock to significantly decline in value or become worthless.
+Added: See “Risk Factor — “China Securities Regulatory Commission
+Added: and other government agencies may exert more oversight and control over offerings that are conducted overseas and foreign investment
+Added: in China-based issuers, and we face uncertainty with respect to future actions by the PRC government that could significantly affect
+Added: our ability to offer or continue to offer securities to investors and cause the value of our securities to significantly decline or be
+Added: worthless.” “Risk Factor — The Chinese government may intervene or influence the operations of our PRC subsidiaries
+Added: and exercise significant oversight and discretion over the conduct of their business and may intervene in or influence their operations
+Added: at any time, which could result in a material change in operations of our PRC subsidiaries and/or the value of our common stock”;
+Added: “Risk Factor — Recent regulatory developments in China, including greater oversight and control by the CAC over data security,
+Added: may subject us to additional regulatory review, and any actions by the Chinese government to exert more oversight and control over foreign
+Added: investment in China-based issuers could significantly limit or completely hinder our ability to offer or continue to offer securities
+Added: to investors and cause the value of such securities to significantly decline or be worthless.”
is a country with both an ancient wine tradition and a new and an emerging wine-consuming market.
−Removed: Wine production in China has
−Removed: thousands of year of history.
−Removed: Today, China is also an emerging wine-producing nation in its own right with brands such as Great
−Removed: Wall, Changyu and Dynasty.
+Added: Wine production in China has thousands
+Added: of years of history.
+Added: Today, China is also an emerging wine-producing nation in its own right with brands such as Great Wall, Changyu
Local wines account for 80 percent of wine consumed in China.
−Removed: According to The International Wine and
−Removed: Spirit Record (the “IWSR”), China is one of the fastest-growing wine markets in the world, with rising personal incomes
−Removed: driving an enhancement of tastes and consumption levels.
−Removed: In 2017, the wine consumption per capita was only about 1.2 liters accounting
−Removed: for less than 1/3 of the global total as well as 1/10 of the U.S.
−Removed: Therefore, we believe there are great potential
−Removed: for growth in the Chinese wine market.
−Removed: still dominates the Chinese wine market with a share of 48 per cent according to
−Removed: Euromonitor International.
−Removed: The best sales in Chinese supermarkets
−Removed: are imported wines from RMB60-180, or approximately $9.00 - $27.00 per bottle.
−Removed: One major challenge is that Chinese consumers switch
−Removed: from one brand to another rather quickly, exhibiting little brand loyalty.
+Added: According to The International Wine and Spirit Record (the
+Added: “IWSR”), China is one of the fastest-growing wine markets in the world, with rising personal incomes driving an enhancement
+Added: of tastes and consumption levels.
+Added: In 2017, the wine consumption per capita was only about 1.2 liters accounting for less than 1/3 of
+Added: the global total as well as 1/10 of the U.S.
+Added: Therefore, we believe there are great potential for growth in the Chinese wine
+Added: use a hybrid marketing model through our supply chain platform, social media (primarily WeChat), distributor network, key customer channels,
+Added: product displays at our physical stores, and community promotions.
+Added: promote direct sales to businesses and individual consumers on our e-commerce supply chain platform, “Fugu Online”.
+Added: Online platform identifies the customers ‘consumption habits and present relevant products to targeted customers through the information
+Added: Online is also served as our O2O management platform, which can provide marketing services to traditional merchants such as supermarkets,
+Added: retail stores, hotels and restaurants.
+Added: Fugu Online provides weekly sales flyers, highlight our products offering and special deals.
+Added: Fugu Online platform enable the users to become our suppliers which encourage suppliers initiatively to join us and enlarge our supplier
+Added: To ensure the safety and quality of food, we request the suppliers provide qualified certification for their products.
+Added: have our own supply chain system and quality control to verify the safety of product for our customers.
+Added: Through the operation of online
+Added: platform, we diversify the product type on our platform and strengthen the customers ‘confidence to our products.
+Added: also maintain a “Fugu Online” WeChat mini-program through which we include mobile coupons and customized offers based on
+Added: the user’s preferences.
+Added: The WeChat platform serves a wide variety of business types of different sizes, such as B2C and B2B companies,
+Added: in addition to individual consumers.
+Added: following showcases the programming interfaces of our Fugu Online WeChat mini-program:
+Added: launched our Fugu Online on WeChat in April 2021.
+Added: For the first five months from April to September 2021, we recorded 1,768 sales orders
+Added: through the Fugu Online platform with an average sales amount of RMB8,465 per order.
+Added: Although the Fugu Online platform is still being
+Added: developed, the first five months’ sales amount already indicated a high revenue growth potential of the Fugu Online platform.
+Added: make online or offline bulk sales through our agents and independent distributors.
+Added: Prior to the launch of our supply chain platform,
+Added: the majority of sales had been made through independent distributors.
+Added: We believe our distribution network is an important component of
+Added: our hybrid sales model because it utilizes the resources and personal connections among our independent distributors and their retail
+Added: Such a sales model helps to enhance the brand awareness of our products among end-customers and collect feedbacks to improve
+Added: our merchandise selection process and management method.
+Added: we have achieved a substantial portion of sales through key customer channels.
+Added: We have established long-term and stable cooperative relations
+Added: with certain large enterprises by carry out offline promotions, offline anniversary activities, and offer loyalty rewards to key customers.
+Added: We initiate promotions to expand our customer base and build brand awareness.
+Added: As we have multiple product lines, there are many opportunities
+Added: for cross-selling across our platform as we seek to introduce customers to other offerings.
+Added: We also believe our strong reputation is
+Added: a factor in retaining and attracting customers.
+Added: also seek to expand our sales into the international food supply chain markets and are in the process of establishing our online
+Added: store on the Amazon platform targeting the food supply and distribution markets outside of China.
+Added: We engaged a third-party
+Added: consultant to assist with marketing and sales strategies to further increase our sales.
+Added: In addition to other online sales channels,
+Added: we have also begun to promote our product sales on major e-commerce platforms in China, such as Tao.1688.com and
+Added: still dominates the Chinese wine market with a share of 48 per cent according to Euromonitor International.
+Added: The best sales in Chinese
+Added: supermarkets are imported wines from RMB60-180, or approximately $9.00 - $27.00 per bottle.
+Added: One major challenge is that Chinese consumers
+Added: switch from one brand to another rather quickly, exhibiting little brand loyalty.
Online sales particularly enable the consumers to source
and purchase budget wines.
−Removed: Management believes that wineries will most benefit from growth in China will be those that demonstrate
−Removed: patience, professional service while building brand awareness and a long term strategy to develop the market with their Chinese
+Added: Management believes that wineries will most benefit from growth in China will be those that demonstrate patience,
+Added: professional service while building brand awareness and a long-term strategy to develop the market with their Chinese partners.
our Company, there are two major competitors in our market, Aussino Liquor and ASC Fine Wines.
1 unchanged sentence
more recognized and well accepted by consumers in China.
−Removed: operate our business in China under a legal regime consisting of the National People’s Congress, which is the country’s
−Removed: highest legislative body;
+Added: and Beverage Supply Chains
+Added: compete with two types of food supply chain companies, including those carrying all-inclusive food products and those focusing on certain
+Added: categories of product offerings.
+Added: Some of our major competitors in supply chain industry are ShuHai Supply Chain Solutions, Wujiu.com,
+Added: Meicai.com, Kuailujinhuo and Shenzhen Farmgirl Supply Chain.
+Added: Supply Chain Solutions provides comprehensive food supply chain services for food enterprises and retail customers.
+Added: modern cooling logistics centers, food processing factories and other operation bases.
+Added: With its strengths in the areas of clean
+Added: vegetable production industry standardization, Shuhai is recognized by the industry and customers as a benchmark enterprise in the
+Added: food supply chain industry.
+Added: is a subsidiary of Beijing Wajiu E-Commerce Co., Ltd., a cross-border B2B trading website for beverages.
+Added: It operates a B2B platform
+Added: for foreign wineries and China domestic wine distribution channels based on an “overseas direct procurement + cross-border
+Added: supply chain + warehousing lo business is to connect the upstream global winery suppliers with the downstream Chinese and foreign
+Added: small and medium wholesalers and retailers.
+Added: is an F2B (farm-to-business) fresh produce supply chain company providing one-stop food ingredient procurement services to restaurants
+Added: throughout China.
+Added: Built on a self-serving model and a cooling logistics network, the company provides restaurants with an all-category
+Added: raw material and ingredient procurement service.
+Added: It shortens the circulation of agricultural products, reduces prices from the source
+Added: to the end user, lower the supply chain costs of merchants, and reduces the risk of farmers’ losses.
+Added: is a matching platform that provides catering merchants with the purchase service with regards to rice, noodles, grains, edible oils,
+Added: tableware, tissues and other commodities.
+Added: Kuailu cooperates with local warehousing companies to utilize their warehousing facilities.
+Added: The suppliers deliver merchandise to the front-end warehouse, and after sorting and loading the order, they cooperate with local logistics
+Added: or distribution service providers to deliver the orders to the restaurant.
+Added: in December 2014, Shenzhen Farmgirl Supply Chain is a nationwide agricultural B2B trading platform.
+Added: Mainly serving Shenzhen and
+Added: Guangzhou, its main products include vegetables, fruits, meat, frozen products, aquatic seafood, dry foods and seasoning
+Added: It h marketing teams, and cooperates with food production bases and large wholesale markets to ensure the quality of
+Added: the vegetables exported.
+Added: Flows, Dividends and Other Asset Transfers between the U.S.
+Added: Holding Company and Our Subsidiaries
+Added: may be transferred within our organization in the following manners:
+Added: (i) we may transfer funds to our PRC subsidiaries by way of capital
+Added: contributions or loans, through intermediate holding companies, such as our Hong Kong subsidiaries;
+Added: (ii) we or our intermediate holding
+Added: companies may provide loans to our PRC operating subsidiaries directly and vice versa ;
+Added: and (iii) our PRC subsidiaries may make dividends
+Added: or other distributions to us through our intermediate holding subsidiaries.
+Added: following table describes transfers among us and our subsidiaries made during the periods presented:
+Added: For the years ended December 31
+Added: Capital contributions from
+Added: us to our offshore subsidiaries (1)
+Added: Loans from us to our offshore subsidiaries
+Added: Capital contributions from our offshore subsidiaries or WFOEs to PRC operating subsidiaries
+Added: Loans from our WFOEs to PRC operating subsidiaries
+Added: Loans from PRC operating subsidiaries to our WFOEs
+Added: Other amounts paid by WFOEs
+Added: to our offshore subsidiaries (2)
+Added: Other amounts paid by PRC
+Added: operating subsidiaries to WFOEs (3)
+Added: Other amounts paid by WFOEs
+Added: to our PRC operating subsidiaries (4)
+Added: subsidiaries” refer to all of our subsidiaries except our PRC subsidiaries;
+Added: paid by one of our WFOEs to our Hong Kong subsidiaries for expenses;
+Added: paid by one of PRC operating subsidiaries to one of our WFOEs for sales of goods;
+Added: paid by one of our WFOEs to one of our PRC operating subsidiaries for purchases.
+Added: of the date of this report, none of our subsidiaries have made any dividends or other distributions to us or their respective shareholders,
+Added: nor have we ever made a dividend or distribution to our shareholders.
+Added: Our PRC subsidiaries presently intend to retain all earnings to
+Added: fund their operations and business expansions.
+Added: a result of PRC laws and regulations (noted below) that require annual appropriations of 10% of after-tax income to be set aside in a
+Added: general reserve fund prior to payment of dividends, our WFOE subsidiary, QHDX, is restricted in that respect, as well as in other respects
+Added: noted below, in its ability to transfer a portion of their net assets to our Hong Kong subsidiary as a dividend.
+Added: We note the following:
+Added: PRC regulations currently permit the payment of dividends only out of accumulated profits, as determined in accordance with accounting
+Added: standards and PRC regulations;
+Added: Our PRC subsidiaries, including QHDX, are required to set aside, at a minimum, 10% of their net income after taxes, based on PRC accounting
+Added: standards, each year as statutory surplus reserves until the cumulative amount of such reserves reaches 50% of their registered capital;
+Added: in addition, they may, subject to a resolution of their shareholder, draw a discretionary common reserve from its after-tax profits;
+Added: Those reserves may not be distributed as cash dividends and may be used to cover losses made in past years, to enhance the company’s
+Added: productivity and expand its business or to increase its registered capital;
+Added: The incurrence of debt, specifically the instruments governing such debt, may restrict a PRC subsidiary’s ability to pay shareholder
+Added: dividends or make other cash distributions.
+Added: the PRC laws and regulations, our PRC subsidiaries, as wholly foreign-owned enterprises in China, may pay dividends only out of their
+Added: respective accumulated after-tax profits as determined in accordance with PRC accounting standards and regulations.
+Added: In addition, a wholly
+Added: foreign-owned enterprise is required to set aside at least 10% of its accumulated after-tax profits each year, if any, to fund certain
+Added: statutory reserve funds, until the aggregate amount of such funds reaches 50% of its registered capital.
+Added: At its discretion, a wholly
+Added: foreign-owned enterprise may allocate a portion of its after-tax profits based on PRC accounting standards to discretional funds.
+Added: reserve funds and discretional funds are not distributable as cash dividends.
+Added: Remittance of dividends by a wholly foreign-owned company
+Added: out of China is subject to examination by the banks designated by SAFE and declaration and payment of withholding tax.
+Added: Additionally,
+Added: if our PRC subsidiaries incur debt on their own behalf in the future, the instruments governing their debt may restrict their ability
+Added: to pay dividends or make other distributions or payments to us.
+Added: As a holding company, we may rely on dividends and other distributions
+Added: on equity paid by our subsidiaries, including our PRC subsidiaries, for our cash and financing requirements.
+Added: However, our PRC subsidiaries
+Added: will not be able to pay dividends until they generate accumulated profits and meet the requirements described above.
+Added: Please see “Risk
+Added: Factor — PRC regulation of loans and direct investment by offshore holding companies to PRC entities may delay or prevent us
+Added: from using the proceeds of this Offering to make loans or additional capital contributions to our PRC subsidiary, which could materially
+Added: and adversely affect our liquidity and our ability to fund and expand our business”;
+Added: “Risk Factor — Payment
+Added: of dividends is subject to restrictions under Nevada and the PRC laws;
+Added: and “ Risk Factor — Governmental control of
+Added: currency conversion may affect the value of your investment.”
+Added: we are deemed by the PRC tax authorities as a PRC tax resident enterprise for tax purposes, any dividends we pay to our non-PRC resident
+Added: shareholders may be regarded as China-sourced income and as a result, may be subject to PRC withholding tax at a rate of up to 10.0%.
+Added: Pursuant to the Arrangement between Mainland China and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region for the Avoidance of Double Taxation
+Added: and Tax Evasion on Income, or the Double Tax Avoidance Arrangement, the 10% withholding tax rate may be reduced to 5% if a Hong Kong
+Added: resident enterprise owns no less than 25% of a PRC entity.
+Added: However, the 5% withholding tax rate does not automatically apply and certain
+Added: requirements must be satisfied, including, without limitation, that (a) the Hong Kong entity must be the beneficial owner of the relevant
+Added: and (b) the Hong Kong entity must directly hold no less than 25% share ownership in the PRC entity during the 12 consecutive
+Added: months preceding its receipt of the dividends.
+Added: In practice, a Hong Kong entity must obtain a tax resident certificate from the Hong Kong
+Added: tax authority to apply for the 5% lower PRC withholding tax rate.
+Added: As the Hong Kong tax authority will issue such a tax resident certificate
+Added: on a case-by-case basis, we cannot be certain that we will be able to obtain the tax resident certificate from the relevant Hong Kong
+Added: tax authority and enjoy the preferential withholding tax rate of 5% under the Double Taxation Arrangement with respect to any dividends
+Added: to be paid by our WFOE, QHDX, to our Hong Kong subsidiary.
+Added: Our WFOE currently does not have any plan to declare and pay dividends, and
+Added: we have not applied for the tax resident certificate from the relevant Hong Kong tax authority.
+Added: Our Hong Kong subsidiary will apply for
+Added: the tax resident certificate when our WFOE plans to declare and pay dividends.
+Added: following discussions illustrate taxes we would hypothetically be required to pay in China, assuming that:
+Added: (i) our PRC subsidiaries have
+Added: taxable earnings, and (ii) they determine to pay dividends in the future:
+Added: Taxation Scenario Statutory Tax and Standard Rates
+Added: Hypothetical pre-tax earnings
+Added: Tax on earnings at statutory
+Added: rate of 25% (2)
+Added: Net earnings available for distribution
+Added: Withholding tax at standard
+Added: rate of 10% (3)
+Added: Net distribution to Parent/Shareholders
+Added: purposes of this example, the tax calculation has been simplified.
+Added: The hypothetical book pre-tax earnings amount, not considering
+Added: timing differences, is assumed to equal taxable income in China.
+Added: For income tax purposes, our PRC subsidiaries file income tax returns
+Added: on a separate company basis.
+Added: of our subsidiaries qualify for preferential income tax rates 20% in China.
+Added: However, such rates are subject to qualification, are
+Added: temporary in nature, and may not be available in a future when distributions are paid.
+Added: For purposes of this hypothetical example,
+Added: the table above reflects a maximum tax scenario under which the full statutory rate would be effective.
+Added: PRC Enterprise Income Tax Law imposes a withholding income tax of 10% on dividends distributed by a foreign invested enterprise,
+Added: or FIE, to its immediate holding company outside of China.
+Added: Pursuant to the Arrangement between Mainland China and the Hong Kong Special
+Added: Administrative Region for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and Tax Evasion on Income, or the Double Tax Avoidance Arrangement, a
+Added: lower withholding income tax rate of 5% is applied, subject to a qualification review at the time of the distribution.
+Added: of this hypothetical example, the table above assumes a maximum tax scenario under which the full withholding tax would be applied.
+Added: operate our business in China under a legal regime consisting of the National People’s Congress, which is the country’s highest
+Added: legislative body;
the State Council, which is the highest authority of the executive branch of the PRC central government;
−Removed: and several ministries and agencies under its authority, including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, State
−Removed: Administration For Industry & Commerce, State Administration of Taxation and their respective local offices.
−Removed: summarizes the principal PRC regulations related to our business.
−Removed: Order 21 of 2015
−Removed: Food Safety Law is the foundational law and the most important food safety law for alcoholic products in China.
−Removed: A great majority
−Removed: of wine regulations are drafted in conformity to the requirements of this law.
−Removed: on December 29, 2018
−Removed: Order 144 of 2011
−Removed: for Administration of Imported/Exported Food Safety
−Removed: rule oversees the safety of imported and exported food.
−Removed: on 11/23/2018
−Removed: Order 16 of 2015
−Removed: for Administration of Food Production Licensing
−Removed: rule requires all food producers in China to procure a production license.
−Removed: by the State Administration for Market Regulation Order 24 in 2020
−Removed: Order 27 of 2012
−Removed: Administrative
−Removed: Provisions on Inspections and Supervisions of Labelling of Imported/Exported Pre-packaged
−Removed: rule provides guidelines that governs all pre-packaged foods.
−Removed: Order 55 of 2012
−Removed: Administrative
−Removed: Provisions on Filing of Importers and Exporters of Imported Foods
−Removed: rule provides the guidelines for imported food inspection procedures, including investigation
−Removed: of food importers and exporters, tracking of the source and flow of imported foods and
−Removed: handling of imported food safety inspections.
−Removed: Notice on December 23, 2004
−Removed: for Inspection on Production Licensing of Wines and Fruit Wines
−Removed: rule sets forth inspection procedures on production licensing of wines and fruit wines.
−Removed: Order 78 of 2005
−Removed: Indication Product Protection Regulation
−Removed: regulation regulates the use of geographical indication product names and trademarks while safeguarding the quality of geographical
−Removed: indication products.
−Removed: Natural Mineral Water(GB8537-2018)
−Removed: standard specifies the product classification, requirements, inspection methods, inspection rules, marks, packaging, transportation
−Removed: and storage of drinking natural mineral water.
−Removed: for the Supervision and Administration of the Sanitation of Drinking Water
−Removed: measure ensures the safety of drinking water, protect human health, and strengthen supervision and management.
−Removed: Drinking Water(GB19298-2014)
−Removed: standard specifies the product scope, requirements, inspection methods, label identification and name of packaged drinking
−Removed: on further strengthening the supervision and management of the quality and safety of “Big Buckets of Water”
−Removed: notice emphasizes the strict implementation of the main responsibility of production enterprises, the strict implementation
−Removed: of production license, the strict implementation of supervision and inspection, the strict supervision and random inspection
−Removed: of products, and the strict investigation and punishment of illegal acts.
−Removed: on urging drinking water production enterprises to strengthen safety management of added substances
−Removed: notice protects human health, standardizes production, and further strengthens the supervision of drinking
−Removed: water production enterprises.
+Added: ministries and agencies under its authority, including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, State Administration for
+Added: Industry & Commerce, State Administration of Taxation and their respective local offices.
+Added: This section summarizes the principal PRC
+Added: regulations related to our business.
+Added: Relating to Food Business Operations
+Added: PRC laws and regulations governing food business activities and operations primarily consist of the Food Safety Law of the PRC, effective
+Added: as of April 29, 2021 (the “Food Safety Law”);
+Added: the Regulations on the Implementation of the Food Safety Law, effective as
+Added: of December 1, 2019 (the “Food Safety Regulations”);
+Added: the Product Quality Law, effective as of December 29, 2018;
+Added: the Administrative
+Added: Measures for Food Recalls, as amended in October 23, 2020;
+Added: the Special Rules of the State Council on Strengthening the Supervision and
+Added: Management of the Safety of Food and Other Products, effective as of July 26, 2007;
+Added: the Administrative Measures for Food Distribution
+Added: Licensing, effective as of November 17, 2017;
+Added: and the Law of the People’s Republic of China on the Protection of Consumer Rights
+Added: and Interests, effective as of November 17, 2017.
+Added: Other laws and regulations relevant to our business include, among others, the E-Commerce
+Added: Law of the People’s Republic of China, effective as of January 1, 2019;
+Added: the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Import
+Added: and Export Commodity Inspection, effective as of April 29, 2021;
+Added: Foreign Trade Law of the People’s Republic of China, effective
+Added: as of November 7, 2016;
+Added: and Measures of the People’s Republic of China for the Administration of Safety of Imported and Exported
+Added: Food, effective as of January 1, 2022.
+Added: Food Safety Law of the People’s Republic of China, as most recently amended and effective on April 29, 2021, governs activities
+Added: with respect to food manufacturing and processing (hereinafter referred to as “food manufacturing”) and circulation of foods
+Added: and food and beverage services (hereinafter referred to as “food business operations”).
+Added: the PRC adopts a system of supervision,
+Added: monitoring and appraisal on the food safety risks, compulsory adoption of food safety standards.
+Added: To engage in food production, sale or
+Added: catering services, the business operators shall obtain a license in accordance with the laws and regulations.
+Added: However, the sale of edible
+Added: agricultural products and the sale of pre-packaged food only are not subject to a permit.
+Added: The sale of prepacked food shall be reported
+Added: to the food safety regulatory department of the local government at or above the county level for recordation.
+Added: As the date of this report,
+Added: all of our PRC subsidiaries have obtained the required business licenses from the SAMR, and thirteen of our PRC subsidiaries are required
+Added: to obtain food business licenses and have received such licenses pursuant to the Food Safety Law.
+Added: Therefore, these subsidiaries are qualified
+Added: to engage in food purchase and sale activities.
+Added: Four of our subsidiaries are subject to the reporting requirement but have not completed
+Added: the required recordation procedure.
+Added: We intend to fully comply with such recordation requirement as soon as practicable.
+Added: Guangdong provincial
+Added: government has not issued detailed implementation rules, and as such, changes in rules and regulations may impose additional requirements
+Added: for our subsidiaries in China.
+Added: on the Implementation of the Food Safety Law stipulate that, food manufacturers purchasing food ingredients, food additives and food-related
+Added: products shall check the supplier’s license and product quality certificate;
+Added: and inspect food ingredients without a product quality
+Added: certificate pursuant to food safety standards;
+Added: and shall not purchase or use food ingredients, food additives and food-related products
+Added: which do not comply with food safety standards.
+Added: In the contracts we signed with the suppliers, we require them to provide a laboratory
+Added: qualification report on the products issued by authoritative institutions at the time when the product is delivered to certify product
+Added: The contract provides that the supplier shall bear the responsibility for product quality and safety.
+Added: We strictly control the
+Added: safety of the food purchased.
+Added: a view to strengthening the administration of food production and operation, reducing and avoiding the harm of unsafe food so as to ensure
+Added: the health and life safety of the general public, the Administrative Measures for Food Recalls are formulated according to the Food Safety
+Added: Law of the People’s Republic of China and its implementation regulations.
+Added: The food manufacturing is exposed to the foodstuffs recall
+Added: system, food manufacturers shall, upon discovery that the foodstuffs manufactured do not comply with food safety standards or based on
+Added: the evidence that the foodstuffs may endanger human health, forthwith cease manufacturing, recall foodstuffs from the market, notify
+Added: the relevant food business operators and consumers, and record information of the recall and notification.
+Added: Where the food manufacturer
+Added: or business operator failed to recall foodstuffs or cease business operation pursuant to the provisions of this Article, the food safety
+Added: supervision and administration department of the local government may order the food manufacturer or business operator to recall foods
+Added: or cease business operations.
+Added: We have not had an emergency food recall.
+Added: Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress promulgated the Product Quality Law of the PRC, released and effective on
+Added: December 29, 2018, which provides the producers and sellers should bear liability for product quality.
+Added: Pursuant to the Regulations on
+Added: the Implementation of the Food Safety Law, issued on October 11, 2019, and effective on December 1, 2019, as a food seller, we should
+Added: abide by the Product Quality Law, which stipulates product quality liability and obligations of food sellers.
+Added: Sellers shall adopt measures
+Added: to maintain the quality of products sold, and shall not counterfeit or imitate quality marks such as certification marks, shall not adulterate
+Added: or mix improper elements with the products, shall not use fake products as genuine products or products of poor quality as high quality
+Added: products, shall not falsify the place of origin of products and shall not falsify or imitate the name or address of another factory,
+Added: among other things.
+Added: a product does not comply with the national or industry standards for the protection of health or personal safety or the safety of property,
+Added: the product manufacturer or seller will be ordered to cease their production or sale.
+Added: Products that have been illegally produced or sold
+Added: shall be confiscated.
+Added: A fine shall be imposed equal to an amount greater than the value of the products that have been illegally produced
+Added: or sold (hereafter including products already sold and goods not yet sold) but less than three (3) times the value of the products;
+Added: there is illegal income, the illegal income shall be confiscated;
+Added: where the circumstances are serious, the business license shall be
+Added: where the case constitutes a crime, criminal liability shall be pursued in accordance with law.
+Added: the case of damage to consumers due to defects in the product, the Product Quality Law of the PRC stipulates the corresponding responsible
+Added: If a defect in a product causes physical injury or damage to third party property, the party which was injured or incurred damage
+Added: may claim compensation against the producer or may claim compensation against the seller.
+Added: If the producer of the product is liable and
+Added: compensation is made by the seller of the product, the seller of the product shall have the right of recovery against the producer of
+Added: if the seller of the product is liable and compensation is made by the producer of the product, the producer of the product
+Added: shall have the right of recovery against the seller of the product.
+Added: Where a product is defective due to a mistake made by the seller
+Added: and such defect causes physical injury or damage to third party property, the seller shall bear liability for compensation.
+Added: is unable to identify the producer of a defective product and is also unable to identify the supplier thereof, the seller shall bear
+Added: liability for compensation.
+Added: All the products we sell are sourced from upstream suppliers.
+Added: In the event that we are held liable for product
+Added: defects as a seller, we have the right to recover compensation or damages paid to consumers from the supplier in accordance with applicable
+Added: Rules of the State Council on Strengthening the Supervision and Management of the Safety of Food and Other Products were promulgated
+Added: and came into force on July 26, 2007.
+Added: The products as mentioned in these Rules shall include edible agricultural products, and other
+Added: products related to the human health and life safety, in addition to food.
+Added: A business operator shall be responsible for the safety of
+Added: products sold by it, and shall not sell products that do not conform to the statutory requirements.
+Added: A seller must establish and implement
+Added: a product supply inspection and acceptance system, examine the business qualifications of suppliers, verify the certificates of qualified
+Added: products and product labels, and establish a product supply account to truly record the names, specifications, quantities, suppliers
+Added: and their contacts, time of supply of products.
+Added: The product supply account and sale account shall be kept for at least two years.
+Added: the production lot of products, a seller shall ask for an inspection report issued by an inspection agency in conformity with the statutory
+Added: conditions or a photocopy of an inspection report signed or sealed by the suppler from the supplier;
+Added: and where such an inspection report
+Added: or a photocopy of an inspection report cannot be provided, the products shall not be sold.
+Added: for the Supervision and Administration of the Sanitation of Domestic Drinking Water shall apply to the supervision and administration
+Added: of the sanitation of central water supply and secondary water supply entities and products involving the sanitation and safety of drinking
+Added: The PRC adopts a sanitary licensing system for products involving the sanitation and safety of drinking water.
+Added: The entities and
+Added: individuals that produce products involving the sanitation and safety of drinking water shall apply for the sanitary licensing approval
+Added: documents for their products to the competent departments of health and family planning of governments as required, and may not produce
+Added: or sell those products until they have obtained the approval documents.
+Added: No entity or individual may produce, sell or use the products
+Added: as mentioned in the preceding paragraph without approval documents.
+Added: Products involving the sanitation and safety of drinking water shall
+Added: be subject to sanitation and safety evaluation in accordance with relevant provisions and shall conform to the requirements of sanitary
+Added: standards and specifications.
+Added: Products involving the sanitation and safety of drinking water that are produced by using new materials,
+Added: new processes and new chemical substances shall obtain the sanitary licensing approval documents issued by the competent department of
+Added: health and family planning of the State Council;
+Added: and products involving the sanitation and safety of drinking water other than those
+Added: produced by using new materials, new processes and new chemical substances shall obtain the sanitary licensing approval documents issued
+Added: by the competent departments of health and family planning of the provincial people’s governments.
+Added: Law of the People’s Republic of China was promulgated on August 31, 2018 and came into force on January 1, 2019.
+Added: businesses” means natural persons, legal persons or organizations without the status of legal person that engage in the business
+Added: activities of selling commodities, or providing services, through the Internet or any other information network, including e-commerce
+Added: platform businesses, in-platform businesses, and e-commerce businesses that sell commodities or provide services through a self-built
+Added: website or any other network services.
+Added: “E-commerce platform business” means a legal person, or an organization without the
+Added: status of legal person, which, in e-commerce, provides both or multiple parties to trading with services We are both an e-commerce businesses
+Added: and an e-commerce platform business.
+Added: E-commerce business operators shall complete market entity registration formalities pursuant to
+Added: the law, except for individuals selling self-produced agricultural products and home-made handicraft products, and individuals using
+Added: their own skills to engage in convenient labor activities and sporadic small transactions for which licensing is not required, as well
+Added: as e-commerce business operators who are not required to register pursuant to the laws and administrative regulations.
+Added: The E-commerce
+Added: platform businesses are required to develop commodities and service quality assurance mechanism favorable to e-commerce development and
+Added: protection of consumer rights and interests.
+Added: As an e-commerce business, we shall sell commodities or provide services meeting the requirements
+Added: for guaranteeing personal and property safety and for environmental protection and shall not sell or provide commodities or services
+Added: the trading of which is prohibited by any law or administrative regulation.
+Added: As an e-commerce platform business, we shall request a business
+Added: applying for selling commodities or providing services in our platform to submit authentic information including its identity, address,
+Added: contact information, and administrative licensing, make verification and registration, establish a register, and make regular updates
+Added: and verification, submit the identity information of in-platform businesses to the administrative authorities and taxation authorities,
+Added: and remind a business that has not made market participant registration to make registration as legally required.
+Added: Consumer Rights and Interests Protection Law of the PRC, or the Consumer Protection Law, promulgated on October 31, 1993 and most recently
+Added: amended on October 25, 2013 (effective as of March 15, 2014), provides that consumers shall be entitled to the protection of their personal
+Added: safety and property security at the time of purchase and use of goods and receipt of services.
+Added: Consumers shall have the right to require
+Added: that the goods and services provided by business operators satisfy the requirements for protection of consumers’ personal safety
+Added: and property security.
+Added: Consumers shall be entitled to the knowledge of actual information of the goods they purchase or use and the services
+Added: they receive.
+Added: Consumers shall have the right to require business operators to provide, based on different situations of the goods or
+Added: services, the relevant information pertaining to the price, place of manufacturing, manufacturer, purpose, function, specifications,
+Added: grade, main ingredients, manufacturing date, shelf life, inspection certificate, user manual, after-sale services of goods or the contents,
+Added: specifications and fees and charges of services, etc.
+Added: In the sales contract, we guarantee the specifications, quality and safety, origin
+Added: and price of the products consistent with the contract.
+Added: Law sets out the obligations of business operators and the rights and interests of the customers.
+Added: For example, business operators must
+Added: guarantee the quality, function, usage, term of validity, personal or property safety requirement of the goods and services and provide
+Added: customers with authentic information about the goods and services.
+Added: Consumer whose legitimate rights and interests are harmed in the purchase
+Added: of goods or receipt of services rendered through an online trading platform may seek compensation from the seller or the service provider.
+Added: Additionally,
+Added: Internet information service providers, under the Civil Code of the PRC, which became effective on January 1, 2021, shall bear tortious
+Added: liabilities in the event they infringe upon other person’s rights and interests due to providing false or inaccurate content through
+Added: the internet.
+Added: Where an internet service provider conducts tortious acts through internet services, the infringed person has the right
+Added: to request the internet service provider take necessary actions such as deleting contents, screening and de-linking.
+Added: Failing to take
+Added: necessary actions after being informed, the internet service provider will be subject to its liabilities with regard to the additional
+Added: damages incurred.
+Added: Where an internet service provider knows that an internet user is infringing upon other persons’ rights and interests
+Added: through its internet service but fails to take necessary actions, it is jointly and severally liable with the internet user.
+Added: Relating to M&A Rules and Overseas Listings
+Added: August 8, 2006, six PRC regulatory agencies, including the China Securities Regulatory Commission, or the CSRC, adopted the Regulations
+Added: on Mergers of Domestic Enterprises by Foreign Investors, or the M&A Rules, which became effective on September 8, 2006 and was amended
+Added: on June 22, 2009.
+Added: Foreign investors shall comply with the M&A Rules when they purchase equity interests of a domestic company or
+Added: subscribe the increased capital of a domestic company, thus changing the nature of the domestic company into a foreign-invested enterprise;
+Added: or when the foreign investors establish a foreign-invested enterprise in the PRC, purchase the assets of a domestic company and operate
+Added: or when the foreign investors purchase the asset of a domestic company, establish a foreign-invested enterprise by injecting
+Added: such assets and operate the assets.
+Added: The M&A Rules purport, among other things, to require offshore special purpose vehicles formed
+Added: for overseas listing purposes through acquisitions of PRC domestic companies and controlled by PRC companies or individuals, to obtain
+Added: the approval of the CSRC prior to publicly listing their securities on an overseas stock exchange.
+Added: to the Anti-Monopoly Law which took effect as at August 1, 2008, where the concentration of business operators reaches the filing thresholds
+Added: stipulated by the State Council, business operators shall file a declaration with the SAMR, and no concentration shall be implemented
+Added: until the SAMR clears the anti-monopoly filing.
+Added: Pursuant to the Notice of the General Office of the State Council on the Establishment
+Added: of the Security Review System for Mergers and Acquisitions of Domestic Enterprises by Foreign Investors and the Security Review Rules
+Added: issued by the General Office of the State Council on February 3, 2011 and became effective on March 3, 2011, mergers and acquisitions
+Added: by foreign investors that raise “national defense and security” concerns, and mergers and acquisitions through which foreign
+Added: investors may acquire de facto control over domestic enterprises that raise “national security” concerns, are subject to
+Added: strict review by the PRC government authorities.
+Added: On August 25, 2011, the MOFCOM issued the Provisions of the Ministry of Commerce for
+Added: the Implementation of the Security Review System for Mergers and Acquisitions of Domestic Enterprises by Foreign Investors, which provides
+Added: that if a foreign investor’s merger or acquisition of a domestic enterprise falls within the scope of security review specified
+Added: in the Notice of the General Office of the State Council on the Establishment of the Security Review System for Mergers and Acquisitions
+Added: of Domestic Enterprises by Foreign Investors, the foreign investor shall file an application with MOFCOM for security review.
+Added: a foreign investor’s merger or acquisition of a domestic enterprise falls within the scope of security review or not shall be determined
+Added: based on the substance and actual influence of the merger or acquisition transaction.
+Added: No foreign investor is allowed to substantially
+Added: avoid the security review in any way, including but not limited to, holding shares on behalf of others, trust arrangements, multi-level
+Added: reinvestment, leasing, loans, contractual control, or overseas transactions.
+Added: December 24, 2021, the CSRC issued the Administrative Provisions of the State Council Regarding the Overseas Issuance and Listing of
+Added: Securities by Domestic Enterprises (the “Draft Administrative Provisions”) and the Measures for the Overseas Issuance of
+Added: Securities and Listing Record-Filings by Domestic Enterprises (Draft for Comments) (the “Draft Filing Measures”), collectively,
+Added: the “Draft Overseas Listing Regulations,” which are currently published for public comments only.
+Added: The Draft Overseas Listing
+Added: Regulations require that companies applying for overseas issuance, listing and post-listing capital operations, including IPO, multi-listing,
+Added: spin-off listing, SPAC, refinancing, issuance for asset acquisitions, equity incentives, and changes of control and other stipulated
+Added: transactions, shall be subject to statutory procedures, such as filing and information reporting requirement.
+Added: Overseas issuance and listings
+Added: include direct and indirect issuance and listings.
+Added: Where an enterprise whose principal business activities are conducted in PRC seeks
+Added: to issue and list its shares in the name of an overseas enterprise based on equity, assets, income or other similar rights and interests
+Added: of the relevant PRC domestic enterprise, such activities are deemed an indirect overseas issuance and listing under the Draft Overseas
+Added: Listing Regulations.
+Added: According to the Draft Overseas Listing Regulations, among other things, after making initial applications with
+Added: overseas stock markets for offerings or listings, all China-based companies shall file with the CSRC within three working days.
+Added: filing materials with the CSRC include (without limitation):
+Added: (i) record-filing reports and related undertakings, (ii) compliance certificates,
+Added: filing or approval documents from the primary regulator of the applicants’ businesses (if applicable), (iii) security assessment
+Added: opinions issued by related departments (if applicable), (iv) PRC legal opinions, and (v) prospectus.
+Added: In addition, overseas offerings
+Added: and listings may be prohibited for such China-based companies when any of the following applies:
+Added: (1) if the intended securities offerings
+Added: and listings are specifically prohibited by the laws, regulations or provision of the PRC;
+Added: (2) if the intended securities offerings and
+Added: listings may constitute a threat to, or endanger national security as reviewed and determined by competent authorities under the State
+Added: Council in accordance with laws;
+Added: (3) if there are material ownership disputes over applicants’ equity interests, major assets,
+Added: core technologies, or the others;
+Added: (4) if, in the past three years, applicants’ domestic enterprises or controlling shareholders,
+Added: de facto controllers have committed corruption, bribery, embezzlement, misappropriation of property, or other criminal offenses disruptive
+Added: to the order of the socialist market economy, or are currently under judicial investigation for suspicion of criminal offenses, or are
+Added: under investigation for suspicion of major violations;
+Added: (5) if, in the past three years, any directors, supervisors, or senior executives
+Added: of applicants have been subject to administrative punishments for severe violations, or are currently under judicial investigation for
+Added: suspicion of criminal offenses, or are under investigation for suspicion of major violations;
+Added: (6) other circumstances as prescribed by
+Added: the State Council.
+Added: The Draft Administrative Provisions further stipulate that a fine between RMB 1 million and RMB 10 million may be
+Added: imposed if an applicant fails to fulfill the filing requirements with the CSRC or conducts an overseas offering or listing in violation
+Added: of the Draft Rules Regarding Overseas Listings, and in cases of severe violations, a parallel order to suspend relevant businesses or
+Added: halt operations for rectification may be issued, and relevant business permits or operational license revoked.
+Added: Relating to Foreign Investment
+Added: activities in the PRC by foreign investors are principally governed by the Industry Guidelines of Encouraged Foreign Investment, or the
+Added: Industry Guidelines, effective on January 27, 2021, and the Special Administrative Measures for Entrance of Foreign Investment (Negative
+Added: List), or the Negative List, effective on July 23, 2020, and together with the PRC Foreign Investment Law, which took effect on January
+Added: 1, 2020, and its respective implementation rules and ancillary regulations.
+Added: The Industry Guidelines and the Negative List lay out the
+Added: basic framework for foreign investments in China, classifying businesses into three categories with regard to foreign investments:
+Added: “encouraged”,
+Added: “restricted” and “prohibited”.
+Added: Industries not listed in the Industry Guidelines or the Negative List are generally
+Added: deemed as falling into a fourth category “permitted” unless specifically restricted by other PRC laws.
+Added: The Negative List
+Added: specifies that Investment in Internet news service, Internet publishing service, Internet audio-visual program service, cyber culture
+Added: operation (except for music) and Internet information dissemination service (except for contents opened up in China’s WTO commitments)
+Added: shall be prohibited.
+Added: to the PRC Foreign Investment Law, foreign investments shall enjoy pre-entry national treatment, except for those foreign-invested entities
+Added: that operate in industries deemed to be either “restricted” or “prohibited” in the “negative list.”
+Added: While foreign investors shall refrain from investing in any of the foreign “prohibited” industries, foreign-invested entities
+Added: operating in foreign “restricted” industries shall require market entry clearance and other approvals from relevant PRC governmental
+Added: Furthermore, the PRC Foreign Investment Law provides that foreign-invested enterprises that have been established before
+Added: the implementation of PRC Foreign Investment Law according to the then existing laws regulating foreign investments may maintain their
+Added: structure and corporate governance within five years after the implementation of the PRC Foreign Investment Law.
+Added: December 19, 2020, MOFCOM and NDRC released the Measures for the Security Review of Foreign Investments, which took effect on January
+Added: 18, 2021.For foreign investments within the following scope, foreign investors or the relevant parties in China (hereinafter referred
+Added: to collectively as the “parties concerned”) shall take the initiative to declare to the office of the working mechanism prior
+Added: to implementation of the investments:…(II) investments in important agricultural products, important energy and resources, important
+Added: equipment manufacturing, important infrastructure, important transport services, important cultural products and services, important
+Added: information technology and Internet products and services, important financial services, key technologies and other important fields
+Added: relating to national security, and obtaining the actual controlling stake in the investee enterprise.
+Added: Prior to a decision made by the
+Added: office of the working mechanism, the parties concerned shall not make the investment.
+Added: The parties concerned shall not make the investment
+Added: unless the office of the working mechanism decides that security review is not required.
+Added: Where the declared foreign investment affects
+Added: national security, a decision on prohibiting the investment shall be made.
+Added: Foreign-invested entities of the group have businesses that
+Added: conduct Internet services, but not related to national security within the scope of the regulations above.
+Added: December 26, 2019, the State Council promulgated the Regulations for Implementing the PRC Foreign Investment Law, which took effect on
+Added: January 1, 2020.
+Added: The implementation regulations further clarified that the State encourages and promotes foreign investments, protects
+Added: the lawful rights and interests of foreign investors, regulates foreign investment administration, continues to optimize foreign investment
+Added: environment, and advances a higher-level opening.
+Added: December 30, 2019, MOFCOM and SAMR jointly promulgated the Measures for Information Reporting on Foreign Investment, which became effective
+Added: on January 1, 2020.
+Added: Pursuant to the Measures for Information Reporting on Foreign Investment, where a foreign investor carries out investment
+Added: activities in China directly or indirectly, the foreign investor or the foreign-invested enterprise shall submit the investment information
+Added: to the competent commerce department.
+Added: Regulations related to Anti-Monopoly and Competition
+Added: On August 17, 2021, the State Administration
+Added: for Market Regulation, or the SAMR, issued a discussion draft of Provisions on the Prohibition of Unfair Competition on the Internet,
+Added: under which business operators should not use data or algorithms to hijack traffic or influence users’ choices, or use technical
+Added: means to illegally capture or use other business operators’ data.
+Added: Furthermore, business operators are not allowed to (i) fabricate
+Added: or spread misleading information to damage the reputation of competitors, or (ii) employ marketing practices such as fake reviews
+Added: or use coupons or “red envelopes” to entice positive ratings.
+Added: On September 11, 2020, the Anti-Monopoly
+Added: Commission of the State Council issued Anti-Monopoly Compliance Guideline for Operators, which requires operators to establish anti-monopoly
+Added: compliance management systems under the PRC Anti-Monopoly Law to manage anti-monopoly compliance risks.
+Added: On February 7, 2021, the
+Added: Anti-Monopoly Commission of the State Council published Anti-Monopoly Guidelines for the Internet Platform Economy Sector that specified
+Added: circumstances where an activity of an internet platform will be identified as monopolistic act as well as concentration filing procedures
+Added: for business operators, including those involving variable interest entities, or the VIEs.
+Added: According to the PRC Anti-Monopoly Law, if
+Added: a business operator carries out a concentration in violation of the law, the relevant authority shall order the business operator to
+Added: terminate the concentration, dispose of the shares or assets or transfer the business within a specified time limit, or take other measures
+Added: to restore the pre-concentration status, and impose a fine of up to RMB500,000.
+Added: On October 23, 2021, the Standing Committee
+Added: of the National People’s Congress issued a discussion draft of the amended Anti-Monopoly Law, which proposes to increase the fines
+Added: for illegal concentration of business operators to no more than ten percent of its last year’s sales revenue if the concentration
+Added: of business operator has or may have an effect of excluding or limiting competitions;
+Added: or a fine of up to RMB5 million if the concentration
+Added: of business operator does not have an effect of excluding or limiting competition.
+Added: The draft also proposes that the relevant authority
+Added: shall investigate a transaction where there is any evidence that the concentration has or may have the effect of eliminating or restricting
+Added: competitions, even if such concentration does not reach the filing threshold.
+Added: Relating to Value-added Telecommunications Services
+Added: to the Provisions on Administration of Foreign-Invested Telecommunications Enterprises which was promulgated by the State Council on
+Added: December 11, 2001 and amended on September 10, 2008 and February 6, 2016, or the FITE Regulations, and the Telecommunications Regulations
+Added: of the PRC, or the Telecom Regulations, promulgated by the PRC State Council on September 25, 2000 and most recently amended on February
+Added: 6, 2016, telecom operators shall apply for a telecommunications business permit pursuant to the provisions of these Regulations.
+Added: No organization
+Added: or individual shall engage in telecommunications business without obtaining a telecommunications business permit.
+Added: In addition, the ultimate
+Added: foreign equity ownership in a value-added telecommunications services provider shall not exceed 50%.
+Added: Moreover, for a foreign investor
+Added: to acquire any equity interest in value-added telecommunication business in China, it must satisfy a number of stringent performance
+Added: and operational experience requirements, including demonstrating good track records and experience in operating value-added telecommunication
+Added: business overseas.
+Added: June 19, 2015, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, or the MIIT, issued the Circular on Removing the Restrictions on
+Added: Equity Ratio Held by Foreign Investors in Online Data Processing and Transaction Processing (Operating E-Commerce) Business, allowing
+Added: foreign investors to own 100% of equity interest in an operator of “operating e-commerce” business.
+Added: The latest Negative List
+Added: further provides that foreign investors are allowed to hold more than 50% equity interests in a value-added telecommunications service
+Added: provider engaging in e-commerce, domestic multiparty communication, storage-and-forward and call center businesses, while other requirements
+Added: with respect to track record and experience provided by the FITE Regulations shall still apply and foreign investors are still prohibited
+Added: from holding more than 50% of equity interest in a provider of other subcategories of value-added telecommunications services.
+Added: Relating to Cybersecurity and Privacy Protection
+Added: PRC Constitution states that PRC law protects the freedom and privacy of communications of citizens and prohibits infringement of these
+Added: In recent years, PRC government authorities have enacted legislation on the Internet use to protect personal information from
+Added: any unauthorized disclosure.
+Added: Under the Several Provisions on Regulating the Market Order of Internet Information Services which was promulgated
+Added: by MIIT on December 29, 2011, an Internet content service operator may not collect any user personal information or provide any such
+Added: information to third parties without the consent of a user, unless otherwise stipulated by laws and administrative regulations.
+Added: content service operator must expressly inform the users of the method, content and purpose of the collection and processing of such
+Added: user personal information and may only collect such information necessary for the provision of its services.
+Added: An Internet content service
+Added: operator is also required to properly keep the user personal information, and in case of any leak or likely leak of the user personal
+Added: information, the Internet content service operator must take immediate remedial measures and, in severe circumstances, to make an immediate
+Added: report to the telecommunication regulatory authority.
+Added: addition, the Decision on Strengthening Network Information Protection, which was promulgated by the Standing Committee of NPC on December
+Added: 28, 2012, provides that electronic information that is able to identify personal identities of citizens or is concerned with personal
+Added: privacy of citizens is protected by law and shall not be unlawfully obtained or provided.
+Added: Internet content service operators collecting
+Added: or using personal electronic information of citizens shall specify purposes, manners and scopes of information collection and use, obtain
+Added: the consent of citizens concerned, and strictly keep confidential personal information collected.
+Added: Internet content service operators
+Added: are prohibited from disclosing, tampering with, damaging, selling or illegally providing others with personal information collected.
+Added: Technical and other measures are required to be taken by Internet content service operators to prevent personal information collected
+Added: from unauthorized disclosure, damage or being lost.
+Added: Internet content service operators are subject to legal liability, including warnings,
+Added: fines, confiscation of illegal gains, revocation of licenses or filings, closing of websites concerned, public security administration
+Added: punishment, criminal liabilities, or civil liabilities, if they violate relevant provisions on Internet privacy.
+Added: to the Order for the Protection of Telecommunication and Internet User Personal Information which was promulgated by MIIT on July 16,
+Added: 2013, any collection and use of users’ personal information must be subject to the consent of the users, abide by the principles
+Added: of legality, rationality and necessity and be within the specified purposes, methods and scopes.
+Added: Pursuant to the Ninth Amendment to the
+Added: Criminal Law which was issued by the Standing Committee of NPC on August 29, 2015 and became effective on November 1, 2015, any Internet
+Added: service provider that fails to fulfill obligations to manage information and network security as required by applicable laws and refuses
+Added: to rectify upon orders from government authorities, will be subject to the criminal penalty if such failure (i) causes dissemination
+Added: of illegal information in large scale;
+Added: (ii) causes user information leaks resulting in severe consequences;
+Added: (iii) causes serious loss
+Added: of evidence to criminal investigations;
+Added: or (iv) implicates other severe circumstances.
+Added: Moreover, any individual or entity that (i) sells
+Added: or provides personal information to others in violation of applicable laws, or (ii) steals or illegally obtains any personal information,
+Added: in either case implicating severe circumstances, will be subject to the criminal penalty.
+Added: The PRC government, however, has the power
+Added: and authority to order Internet content service operators to turn over personal information if an Internet user posts any prohibited
+Added: content or engages in illegal activities on the Internet.
+Added: further regulate cybersecurity and privacy protection, the PRC Cybersecurity Law which was promulgated by the Standing Committee of NPC
+Added: on November 7, 2016 and took effect on June 1, 2017, provides that:
+Added: subject to certain exceptions, (i) to collect and use personal information,
+Added: network operators must follow the principles of legitimacy, rightfulness, and necessity, disclose their rules of data collection and
+Added: use, clearly express the purposes, means, and scope of collecting and using the information, and obtain the consent of the persons whose
+Added: data is gathered;
+Added: (ii) network operators can neither gather personal information unrelated to the services they provide, nor gather or
+Added: use personal information in violation of the provisions of laws and administrative regulations or the scopes of consent given by the
+Added: persons whose data is gathered, and must dispose of personal information they have saved in accordance with the provisions of laws and
+Added: administrative regulations and agreements reached with users;
+Added: (iii) network operators cannot divulge, tamper with, or damage the personal
+Added: information they have collected, and cannot provide the personal information to others without the consent of persons whose data is collected.
+Added: According to the PRC Cybersecurity Law, personal information refers to all kinds of information that are recorded electronically or that
+Added: can otherwise be used to independently identify or be combined with other information to identify natural persons’ personal information,
+Added: including but not limited to natural persons’ names, dates of birth, identification numbers, biologically identified personal information,
+Added: addresses, and telephone numbers.
+Added: Any Internet information services provider that violates these privacy protection requirements under
+Added: the PRC Cybersecurity Law and related laws and regulations may be ordered to turn in illegal gains generated from unlawful operations
+Added: and pay a fine of no less than one but no more than ten times of the illegal gains and may be ordered to cease the relevant business
+Added: operations when the violation is serious.
+Added: June 28, 2016, the CAC issued the Administrative Provisions on Mobile Internet Applications Information Services, which became effective
+Added: on August 1, 2016, to further strengthen the regulation of the mobile app information services.
+Added: Pursuant to these provisions, owners
+Added: or operators of mobile apps that provide information services are required to be responsible for information security management, establish
+Added: and improve the protective mechanism for user information, observe the principles of legality, rightfulness and necessity, and expressly
+Added: state the purpose, method and scope of, and obtain user consent to, the collection and use of users’ personal information.
+Added: May 8, 2017, the Supreme People’s Court and the Supreme People’s Procuratorate issued the Interpretations of the Supreme
+Added: People’s Court and the Supreme People’s Procuratorate on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Law in the Handling
+Added: of Criminal Cases Involving Infringement of Citizens’ Personal Information, or the Personal Information Interpretations, which
+Added: became effective on June 1, 2017.
+Added: The Personal Information Interpretations provides more practical conviction and sentencing criteria
+Added: for the infringement of citizens’ personal information.
+Added: January 23, 2019, the PRC Office of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission and other three authorities jointly issued the Circular
+Added: on the Special Campaign of Correcting Unlawful Collection and Usage of Personal Information via Apps.
+Added: Pursuant to this circular, (i)
+Added: app operators are prohibited from collecting any personal information irrelevant to their services;
+Added: (ii) information collection and usage
+Added: policy should be presented in a simple and clear way, and such policy should be consented by the users voluntarily, and;
+Added: (iii) authorization
+Added: from users should not be obtained by coercing users with default or bundling clauses or making consent a condition of service.
+Added: App operators
+Added: violating these rules can be ordered by authorities to correct their noncompliance within a given period of time, be publicly reported,
+Added: or ordered to quit its operation or cancel its business license or operational permits.
+Added: April 10, 2019, the Ministry of Public Security promulgated the Guidelines for Internet Personal Information Security Protection, which
+Added: establishes the management mechanism, security technical measures and business workflows for personal information security protection.
+Added: On August 22, 2019, the CAC promulgated the Provisions on the Cyber Protection of Children’s Personal Information which requires,
+Added: among others, that network operators who collect, store, use, transfer and disclose personal information of children under the age of
+Added: 14 shall establish special rules and user agreements for the protection of children’s personal information, inform the children’s
+Added: guardians in a noticeable and clear manner, and shall obtain the consent of the children’s guardians.
+Added: November 28, 2019, the CAC, MIIT, the Ministry of Public Security and SAMR jointly promulgated the Measures for the Determination of
+Added: the Collection and Use of Personal Information by Apps in Violation of Laws and Regulations, which provides guidance for the regulatory
+Added: authorities to identify the illegal collection and use of personal information through mobile apps, and for the app operators to conduct
+Added: self-examination and self-correction and social supervision by citizens.
+Added: May 28, 2020, the NPC approved the Civil Code of the PRC or the Civil Code, which came into effect on January 1, 2021.
+Added: Pursuant to the
+Added: Civil Code, the personal information of a natural person shall be protected by the law.
+Added: Any organization or individual that needs to
+Added: obtain personal information of others shall obtain such information legally and ensure the safety of such information, and shall not
+Added: illegally collect, use, process or transmit personal information of others, or illegally purchase or sell, provide or make public personal
+Added: information of others.
+Added: Furthermore, information processors shall not divulge or tamper with personal information collected or stored
+Added: without the consent of a natural person, information processors shall not illegally provide personal information of such person
+Added: to others, except for information that has been processed so that specific persons cannot be identified and that cannot be restored.
+Added: In addition, an information processor shall take technical measures and other necessary measures to ensure the security of the personal
+Added: information that is collected and stored and to prevent the information from being divulged, tampered with or lost;
+Added: where personal information
+Added: has been or may be divulged, tampered with or lost, the information processor shall take remedial measures in a timely manner, inform
+Added: the natural person concerned in accordance with the provisions and report the case to the relevant competent department.
+Added: August 20, 2021, the SCNPC adopted the Personal Information Security Law, which took effect on November 1, 2021.
+Added: The Personal Information
+Added: Protection Law includes the basic rules for personal information processing, the rules for cross-border provision of personal information,
+Added: the rights of individuals in personal information processing activities, the obligations of personal information processors, and the
+Added: legal responsibilities for illegal collection, processing, and use of personal information.
+Added: As the first systematic and comprehensive
+Added: law specifically for the protection of personal information in the PRC, the Personal Information Protection Law provides, among others,
+Added: that (i) an individual’s consent shall be obtained to use sensitive personal information, such as biometric characteristics and
+Added: individual location tracking, (ii) personal information operators using sensitive personal information shall notify individuals of the
+Added: necessity of such use and impact on the individual’s rights, and (iii) where personal information operators reject an individual’s
+Added: request to exercise his or her rights, the individual may file a lawsuit with a People’s Court.
+Added: November 14, 2021, the CAC published the Regulations of Internet Data Security Management (Draft for Comments), which further regulate
+Added: the internet data processing activities and emphasize the supervision and management of network data security, and further stipulate
+Added: the obligations of internet platform operators, such as to establish a system for disclosure of platform rules, privacy policies and
+Added: algorithmic strategies related to data.
+Added: Specifically, the draft regulations require data processors to, among others, (i) adopt immediate
+Added: remediation measures when finding that network products and services they use or provide have security defects and vulnerabilities, or
+Added: threaten national security or endanger public interest, and (ii) follow a series of detailed requirements with respect to processing
+Added: of personal information, management of important data and proposed overseas transfer of data.
+Added: In addition, the draft regulations require
+Added: data processors handling important data or the data processors to be listed overseas to complete an annual data security assessment and
+Added: file a data security assessment report to applicable regulators.
+Added: Such annual assessment, as required by the draft regulations, would
+Added: encompass areas including, but not limited to, the status of important data processing, data security risks identified and the measures
+Added: adopted, the effectiveness of data protection measures, the implementation of national data security laws and regulations, data security
+Added: incidents that occurred and their handling, and a security assessment with respect to sharing and provision of important data overseas.
+Added: As of the date of this report, the draft regulations have been released for public comment only and have not been formally adopted.
+Added: The final provisions and the timeline for its adoption are subject to changes and uncertainties.
+Added: currently operate an online trading platform, primarily engaged in sales of products to our customers in China, where our customers can
+Added: register as members first, and then search for, purchase or sell any desired food and beverage products.
+Added: Our online platform collects
+Added: and transmits product, supplier and customer information and data.
+Added: Since our online trading platform has only been in operation for about a year, we are in the process of studying the newly issued rules and regulations governing cybersecurity and data protection and the
+Added: industry best practice, as well as assessing the extent to which our information and data system is not in full compliance with the various
+Added: requirements under the newly proposed regulations.
+Added: are committed to taking the necessary actions to satisfy the effective personal information protection and internet data security regulatory
+Added: requirements.
+Added: We have designed a user information protection mechanism, which includes the following measures:
+Added: adopt data security technical measures by the introduction of an extended verification (EV) SSL certificate at the user information security
+Added: technology implementation level, offering strong encryption technology and extended verification function, and providing security guarantee
+Added: for online transactions;
+Added: (ii) improve the technical level protection and the monitoring mechanism for data use, and for the data modules
+Added: related to user information in the e-commerce platform system, use MD5 irreversible encryption for storage and display of information
+Added: security sensitive fields;
+Added: (iii) develop a complete personal information operation process and system, and designate responsible personnel
+Added: system for information security work;
+Added: (iv) develop a user information collection, storage and user rules and privacy agreement, following
+Added: the “inform + express consent” model, informing users of the purpose, method and scope of information collection and use,
+Added: as well as the channels for inquiring and correcting inaccuracies in information and data;
+Added: (v) conduct assessments on technology, operational
+Added: risks and system common issues, and data security governance;
+Added: (vi) voluntarily engage a data security service organization to conduct
+Added: an annual data security assessment and fulfil reporting obligations if required by applicable rules and regulations;
+Added: (vii) establish
+Added: an emergency plan for personal information security incidents, which includes, among other things, an emergency response mechanism for
+Added: security incidents, incident impact assessment and mitigation measures, and emergency response training and drills;
+Added: (viii) provide training
+Added: to employees;
+Added: and (ix) promote consumer data protection awareness and education engagement.
+Added: We have implemented most of above measures
+Added: and plan to put in place the remaining measures by mid-2022.
+Added: We are committed to taking the necessary actions to satisfy the effective
+Added: personal information protection and internet data security regulatory requirements in accordance with the applicable laws.
+Added: Relating to Intellectual Property Rights
+Added: in the PRC are principally protected under the Patent Law of the PRC.
+Added: The duration of a patent right is either 10 years or 15 year
+Added: or 20 years from the date of application, depending on the type of patent right.
+Added: The Patent Law of the PRC and its implementation
+Added: rules provide for three types of patents, namely, “invention”, “utility model” and “design”.
+Added: Invention patents are valid for twenty years, utility model patents are valid for fifteen years, while design patents are valid for
+Added: ten years, from the date of application.
+Added: The Chinese patent system adopts a “first-to-file” principle, which means that
+Added: where more than one person files a patent application for the same invention, a patent will be granted to the person who files the
+Added: application first.
+Added: To be patentable, invention or utility models must meet three criteria:
+Added: novelty, inventiveness and
+Added: practicability.
+Added: A third party must obtain consent or a proper license from the patent owner to use the patent.
+Added: Otherwise, the use
+Added: constitutes an infringement of the patent rights.
+Added: in the PRC, including copyrighted software, is principally protected under the Copyright Law of the PRC and related rules and regulations.
+Added: Under the Copyright Law, promulgated in September 1990, implemented in June 1991, amended in October 2001, February 2010 and November
+Added: 2020, and effective on June 1, 2021 the term of protection for copyrighted software is 50 years.
+Added: The Regulation on the Protection of
+Added: the Right to Communicate Works to the Public over Information Networks, as most recently amended on January 30, 2013, provides specific
+Added: rules on fair use, statutory license, and a safe harbor for use of copyrights and copyright management technology and specifies the liabilities
+Added: of various entities for violations, including copyright holders, libraries and Internet service providers.
+Added: Trademarks are protected by the PRC Trademark Law which was adopted by the Standing Committee of NPC on August 23, 1982 and most recently
+Added: amended on April 23, 2019 as well as the Implementation Regulation of the PRC Trademark Law which was adopted by the State Council on
+Added: August 3, 2002 and amended on April 29, 2014.
+Added: The Trademark Office of the National Intellectual Property Administration under SAMR handles
+Added: trademark registrations and grants a term of ten years to registered trademarks which may be renewed for consecutive ten-year periods
+Added: upon request by the trademark owner.
+Added: For licensed use of a registered trademark, the licensor shall file record of the licensing of the
+Added: said trademark with the Trademark Office, otherwise it may not defend against a bona fide third party.
+Added: The PRC Trademark Law has adopted
+Added: a “first-to-file” principle with respect to trademark registration.
+Added: Where a trademark for which a registration has been made
+Added: is identical or similar to another trademark which has already been registered or been subject to a preliminary examination and approval
+Added: for use on the same kind of or similar commodities or services, the application for registration of such trademark may be rejected.
+Added: person applying for the registration of a trademark may not prejudice the existing right first obtained by others, nor may any person
+Added: register in advance a trademark that has already been used by another party and has already gained a “sufficient degree of reputation”
+Added: through such party’s use.
+Added: PRC law, any of the following acts will be deemed as an infringement to the exclusive right to use a registered trademark:
+Added: a trademark that is the same as or similar to a registered trademark for identical or similar goods without the permission of the trademark
+Added: (ii) sale of any goods that have infringed the exclusive right to use any registered trademark;
+Added: (iii) counterfeit or unauthorized
+Added: production of the label of another’s registered trademark, or sale of any such label that is counterfeited or produced without
+Added: authorization;
+Added: (iv) change of any trademark of a registrant without the registrant’s consent, and selling goods bearing such replaced
+Added: trademark on the market;
+Added: or (v) other acts that have caused any other damage to another’s exclusive right to use a registered trademark.
+Added: to the PRC Trademark Law, in the event of any of the foregoing acts, the infringing party will be ordered to stop the infringement immediately
+Added: and may be imposed a fine;
+Added: the counterfeit goods will be confiscated.
+Added: The infringing party may also be held liable for the right holder’s
+Added: damages, which will be equal to the losses suffered by the right holder as a result of the infringement, including reasonable expenses
+Added: incurred by the right holder for stopping the infringement, or the gains obtained by the infringing party if the losses are difficult
+Added: to be ascertained.
+Added: If both gains and losses are difficult to be ascertained, the damages may be determined by referring to the amount
+Added: of royalties for the license of such trademarks, which will be one to five times of the royalties in the case of any serious infringement
+Added: with malicious intent.
+Added: If the gains, losses and royalties are all difficult to be ascertained, the court may render a judgment awarding
+Added: damages no more than RMB5 million.
+Added: Notwithstanding the above, if a distributor does not know that the goods it sells infringe another’s
+Added: registered trademark, it will not be liable for infringement provided that the seller shall prove that the goods are lawfully obtained
+Added: and identify its supplier.
+Added: names are protected under the Administrative Measures on Internet Domain Names promulgated by the MIIT on August 24, 2017 and effective
+Added: as of November 1, 2017.
+Added: Domain name registrations are handled through domain name service agencies established under the relevant regulations,
+Added: and applicants become domain name holders upon successful registration.
+Added: Relating to Foreign Exchange
+Added: on Foreign Currency Exchange
+Added: principal regulations governing foreign currency exchange in China are the Foreign Exchange Administration Regulations, most recently
+Added: amended on August 5, 2008.
+Added: Under PRC foreign exchange regulations, payments of current account items, such as profit distributions,
+Added: interest payments and trade and service-related foreign exchange transactions, can be made in foreign currencies without prior approval
+Added: from the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, or SAFE, by complying with certain procedural requirements.
+Added: By contrast, approval
+Added: from or registration with appropriate government authorities is required where RMB is to be converted into foreign currency and remitted
+Added: out of China to pay capital account items, such as direct investments, repayment of foreign currency-denominated loans, repatriation
+Added: of investments and investments in securities outside of China.
+Added: November 19, 2012, SAFE promulgated the Circular of Further Improving and Adjusting Foreign Exchange Administration Policies on
+Added: Foreign Direct Investment, or Circular 59, which substantially amends and simplifies the current foreign exchange procedure.
+Added: Pursuant to Circular 59, the opening of various special purpose foreign exchange accounts, such as pre-establishment expenses
+Added: accounts, foreign exchange capital accounts and guarantee accounts, the reinvestment of RMB proceeds derived by foreign investors in
+Added: the PRC, and remittance of foreign exchange profits and dividends by a foreign-invested enterprise to its foreign shareholders no
+Added: longer require the approval or verification of SAFE, and multiple capital accounts for the same entity may be opened in different
+Added: provinces, which was not possible previously.
+Added: In 2013, SAFE specified that the administration by SAFE or its local branches over
+Added: direct investment by foreign investors in the PRC must be conducted by way of registration and banks must process foreign exchange
+Added: business relating to the direct investment in the PRC based on the registration information provided by SAFE and its branches.
+Added: February 2015, SAFE promulgated the Notice on Further Simplifying and Improving the Administration of the Foreign Exchange
+Added: Concerning Direct Investment, or SAFE Notice 13.
+Added: Instead of applying for approvals regarding foreign exchange registrations of
+Added: foreign direct investment and overseas direct investment from SAFE, entities and individuals may apply for such foreign exchange
+Added: registrations from qualified banks.
+Added: The qualified banks, under the supervision of SAFE, may directly review the applications and
+Added: conduct the registration.
+Added: March 2015, SAFE promulgated the Circular of the SAFE on Reforming the Management Approach regarding the Settlement of Foreign Capital
+Added: of Foreign-invested Enterprise, or Circular 19, which expands a pilot reform of the administration of the settlement of the foreign exchange
+Added: capitals of foreign-invested enterprises nationwide.
+Added: Circular 19 replaced both the Circular of the SAFE on Issues Relating to the Improvement
+Added: of Business Operations with Respect to the Administration of Foreign Exchange Capital Payment and Settlement of Foreign-invested Enterprises,
+Added: or Circular 142, and the Circular of the SAFE on Issues concerning the Pilot Reform of the Administrative Approach Regarding the Settlement
+Added: of the Foreign Exchange Capitals of Foreign-invested Enterprises in Certain Areas, or Circular 36.
+Added: Circular 19 allows all foreign-invested
+Added: enterprises established in the PRC to settle their foreign exchange capital on a discretionary basis according to the actual needs of
+Added: their business operation, provides the procedures for foreign invested companies to use Renminbi converted from foreign currency-denominated
+Added: capital for equity investments and removes certain other restrictions that had been provided in Circular 142.
+Added: However, Circular 19 continues
+Added: to prohibit foreign-invested enterprises from, among other things, using RMB funds converted from their foreign exchange capital for
+Added: expenditure beyond their business scope and providing entrusted loans or repaying loans between non-financial enterprises.
+Added: SAFE promulgated
+Added: the Notice of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange on Reforming and Standardizing the Foreign Exchange Settlement Management
+Added: Policy of Capital Account, or Circular 16, effective June 2016, which reiterates some of the rules set forth in Circular 19.
+Added: 16 provides that discretionary foreign exchange settlement applies to foreign exchange capital, foreign debt offering proceeds and remitted
+Added: foreign listing proceeds, and the corresponding RMB capital converted from foreign exchange may be used to extend loans to related parties
+Added: or repay inter-company loans (including advances by third parties).
+Added: However, there are substantial uncertainties with respect to Circular
+Added: 16’s interpretation and implementation in practice.
+Added: Circular 19 or Circular 16 may delay or limit us from using the proceeds of
+Added: offshore offerings to make additional capital contributions to our PRC subsidiaries and any violations of these circulars could result
+Added: in severe monetary or other penalties.
+Added: January 2017, SAFE promulgated the Circular on Further Improving Reform of Foreign Exchange Administration and Optimizing Genuineness
+Added: and Compliance Verification, or Circular 3, which stipulates several capital control measures with respect to the outbound remittance
+Added: of profits from domestic entities to offshore entities, including (i) banks must check whether the transaction is genuine by reviewing
+Added: board resolutions regarding profit distribution, original copies of tax filing records and audited financial statements, and (ii) domestic
+Added: entities must retain income to account for previous years’ losses before remitting any profits.
+Added: Moreover, pursuant to Circular
+Added: 3, domestic entities must explain in detail the sources of capital and how the capital will be used, and provide board resolutions, contracts
+Added: and other proof as a part of the registration procedure for outbound investment.
+Added: October 23, 2019, SAFE issued Circular of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange on Further Promoting the Facilitation of Cross-border
+Added: Trade and Investment, or the Circular 28, which took effect on the same day.
+Added: Circular 28 allows non-investment foreign-invested enterprises
+Added: to use their capital funds to make equity investments in China, provided that such investments do not violate the effective special entry
+Added: management measures for foreign investment (negative list) and the target investment projects are genuine and in compliance with laws.
+Added: on Foreign Debt
+Added: loan made by a foreign entity as direct or indirect shareholder in a FIE is considered to be foreign debt in China and is regulated by
+Added: various laws and regulations, including the Regulation of the People’s Republic of China on Foreign Exchange Administration, the
+Added: Interim Provisions on the Management of Foreign Debts, the Statistical Monitoring of Foreign Debts Tentative Provisions, the Detailed
+Added: Rules for the Implementation of Provisional Regulations on Statistics and Supervision of External Debt, and the Administrative Measures
+Added: for Registration of Foreign Debts.
+Added: Under these rules and regulations, a shareholder loan in the form of foreign debt made to a PRC entity
+Added: does not require the prior approval of SAFE.
+Added: However, such foreign debt must be registered with and recorded by SAFE or its local branches
+Added: within fifteen (15) business days after entering into the foreign debt contract.
+Added: Pursuant to these rules and regulations, the maximum
+Added: amount of the aggregate of (i) the outstanding balance of foreign debts with a term not longer than one year, and (ii) the accumulated
+Added: amount of foreign debts with a term longer than one year, of a FIE shall not exceed the difference between its registered total investment
+Added: and its registered capital, or Total Investment and Registered Capital Balance.
+Added: January 12, 2017, the People’s Bank of China, or PBOC, promulgated the Notice of the People’s Bank of China on Matters concerning
+Added: the Macro-Prudential Management of Full-Covered Cross-Border Financing, or PBOC Circular 9, which sets forth an upper limit for PRC entities,
+Added: including FIEs and domestic enterprises, regarding their foreign debts.
+Added: Pursuant to PBOC Circular 9, the outstanding cross-border financing
+Added: of an enterprise (the outstanding balance drawn, here and below) shall be calculated using a risk-weighted approach, or Risk-Weighted
+Added: Approach, and shall not exceed the specified upper limit, namely:
+Added: risk-weighted outstanding cross-border financing £ the upper
+Added: limit of risk-weighted outstanding cross-border financing.
+Added: Risk-weighted outstanding cross-border financing =∑ outstanding amount
+Added: of RMB and foreign currency denominated cross-border financing * maturity risk conversion factor * type risk conversion factor +∑
+Added: outstanding foreign currency denominated cross-border financing * exchange rate risk conversion factor.
+Added: Maturity risk conversion factor
+Added: shall be 1 for medium- and long-term cross-border financing with a term of more than one year and 1.5 for short-term cross-border financing
+Added: with a term of one year or less than one year.
+Added: Type risk conversion factor shall be 1 for on-balance-sheet financing and 1 for off-balance-sheet
+Added: financing (contingent liabilities) for the time being.
+Added: Exchange rate risk conversion factor shall be 0.5.
+Added: The PBOC Circular 9 further
+Added: provides that the upper limit of risk-weighted outstanding cross-border financing for enterprises, or Net Asset Limits, shall be 200%
+Added: of its net assets.
+Added: The PBOC Circular 9 does not supersede the Interim Provisions on the Management of Foreign Debts, but rather serves
+Added: as a supplement to it.
+Added: PBOC Circular 9 provided for a one-year transitional period, or the Transitional Period, from its promulgation
+Added: date for FIEs, during which period FIEs could choose to calculate their maximum amount of foreign debt based on either (i) the Total
+Added: Investment and Registered Capital Balance, or (ii) the Risk-Weighted Approach and the Net Asset Limits.
+Added: Under the PBOC Circular 9, after
+Added: the Transitional Period ends on January 11, 2018, the PBOC and SAFE will determine the cross-border financing administration mechanism
+Added: for the foreign-invested enterprises after evaluating the overall implementation of PBOC Circular 9.
+Added: In addition, according to PBOC Circular
+Added: 9, a foreign loan must be filed with SAFE through the online filing system of SAFE after the loan agreement is signed and at least three
+Added: business days prior to the borrower withdraws any amount from such foreign loan.
+Added: on Foreign Exchange Registration of Overseas Investment by PRC Residents
+Added: July 4, 2014, SAFE issued Circular on Relevant Issues Concerning Foreign Exchange Control on Domestic Residents’ Offshore Investment
+Added: and Financing and Roundtrip Investment Through Special Purpose Vehicles, or SAFE Circular 37, that requires PRC residents, including
+Added: PRC resident natural persons or PRC entities, to register with SAFE or its local branch in connection with their establishment or control
+Added: of an offshore entity established for the purpose of overseas investment or financing.
+Added: The term “control” under SAFE Circular
+Added: 37 is broadly defined as the operation rights, beneficiary rights or decision-making rights acquired by the PRC residents in the offshore
+Added: special purpose vehicles by such means as acquisition, trust, proxy, voting rights, repurchase, convertible bonds or other arrangements.
+Added: In addition, such PRC residents must update their SAFE registrations when the offshore special purpose vehicle undergoes material events
+Added: relating to any change of basic information (including change of such PRC citizens or residents, name and operation term), increases
+Added: or decreases in investment amount, transfers or exchanges of shares, or mergers or divisions.
+Added: SAFE further enacted the Notice on Further
+Added: Simplifying and Improving Foreign Exchange Administration Policy on Direct Investment, or SAFE Notice 13, which allows PRC residents
+Added: to register with qualified banks in connection with their establishment or control of an offshore entity established for the purpose
+Added: of overseas investment or financing.
+Added: However, remedial registration applications made by PRC residents that previously failed to comply
+Added: with the SAFE Circular 37 continue to fall under the jurisdiction of the relevant local branch of SAFE.
+Added: Few remedial registration applications
+Added: have in fact been approved by the SAFE or its local branch.
+Added: the event that a PRC resident holding interests in a special purpose vehicle fails to fulfill the required SAFE registration, the PRC
+Added: subsidiaries of that special purpose vehicle may be prohibited from distributing profits to the offshore parent and from carrying out
+Added: subsequent cross-border foreign exchange activities, and the special purpose vehicle may be restricted in its ability to contribute additional
+Added: capital into its PRC subsidiary.
+Added: Moreover, failure to comply with the various SAFE registration requirements described above could result
+Added: in liability under PRC law for evasion of foreign exchange controls.
+Added: Relating to Employment, Social Insurance and housing fund
+Added: Labor Law and The Labor Contract Law provide requirements concerning employment contracts between an employer and its employees.
+Added: employer fails to enter into a written employment contract with an employee within one year from the date on which the employment relationship
+Added: is established, the employer must rectify the situation by entering into a written employment contract with the employee and pay the
+Added: employee twice the employee’s salary for the period from the day following the lapse of one month from the date of establishment
+Added: of the employment relationship to the day prior to the execution of the written employment contract.
+Added: All employers must comply with local
+Added: minimum wage standards.
+Added: The Labor Contract Law and its implementation rules also require compensation to be paid upon certain terminations,
+Added: which significantly affects the cost of reducing workforce for employers.
+Added: In addition, if an employer intends to enforce a non-compete
+Added: provision with an employee in an employment contract or non-competition agreement, it has to compensate the employee on a monthly basis
+Added: during the term of the restriction period after the termination or ending of the labor contract.
+Added: Employers in most cases are also required
+Added: to provide a severance payment to their employees after their employment relationship are terminated.
+Added: Violations of the PRC Labor Contract
+Added: Law and the PRC Labor Law may result in the imposition of fines and other administrative and criminal liability in the case of serious
+Added: in China are required by PRC laws and regulations to participate in certain employee benefit plans, including social insurance funds,
+Added: namely a pension plan, a medical insurance plan, an unemployment insurance plan, a work-related injury insurance plan and a maternity
+Added: insurance plan, and a housing provident fund, and contribute to the plans or funds in amounts equal to certain percentages of salaries,
+Added: including bonuses and allowances, of the employees as specified by the local government from time to time at locations where they operate
+Added: their businesses or where they are located.
+Added: According to the Social Insurance Law, an employer that fails to make social insurance contributions
+Added: may be ordered to pay the required contributions within a stipulated deadline and be subject to a late fee.
+Added: If the employer still fails
+Added: to rectify the failure to make social insurance contributions within the stipulated deadline, it may be subject to a fine ranging from
+Added: one to three times the amount overdue.
+Added: According to the Regulations on Management of Housing Fund, an enterprise that fails to make housing
+Added: fund contributions may be ordered to rectify the noncompliance and pay the required contributions within a stipulated deadline;
+Added: an application may be made to a local court for compulsory enforcement.
+Added: the Enterprise Income Tax Law of the PRC, or the EIT Law, which became effective on January 1, 2008 and was subsequently amended on February
+Added: 24, 2017 and December 29, 2018, and its implementing rules, enterprises are classified as resident enterprises and non-resident enterprises.
+Added: PRC resident enterprises typically pay an enterprise income tax at the rate of 25% while non-PRC resident enterprises without any branches
+Added: in the PRC should pay an enterprise income tax in connection with their income from the PRC at the tax rate of 10%.
+Added: An enterprise established
+Added: outside of the PRC with its “de facto management bodies” located within the PRC is considered a “resident enterprise,”
+Added: meaning that it can be treated in a manner similar to a PRC domestic enterprise for enterprise income tax purposes.
+Added: The implementing
+Added: rules of the EIT Law define a de facto management body as a managing body that in practice exercises “substantial and overall management
+Added: and control over the production and operations, personnel, accounting, and properties” of the enterprise.
+Added: Enterprises qualified
+Added: as “High and New Technology Enterprises” are entitled to a 15% enterprise income tax rate rather than the 25% uniform statutory
+Added: The preferential tax treatment continues as long as an enterprise can retain its “High and New Technology Enterprise”
+Added: EIT Law and the implementation rules provide that an income tax rate of 10% should normally be applicable to dividends payable to investors
+Added: that are “non-resident enterprises,” and gains derived by such investors, which (a) do not have an establishment or place
+Added: of business in the PRC or (b) have an establishment or place of business in the PRC, but the relevant income is not effectively connected
+Added: with the establishment or place of business to the extent such dividends and gains are derived from sources within the PRC.
+Added: tax on the dividends may be reduced pursuant to a tax treaty between China and other jurisdictions.
+Added: Pursuant to the Arrangement Between
+Added: the Mainland of China and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region for the Avoidance of Double Taxation on Income, or the Double Tax
+Added: Avoidance Arrangement, and other applicable PRC laws, if a Hong Kong resident enterprise is determined by the competent PRC tax authority
+Added: to have satisfied the relevant conditions and requirements under such Double Tax Avoidance Arrangement and other applicable laws, the
+Added: 10% withholding tax on the dividends the Hong Kong resident enterprise receives from a PRC resident enterprise may be reduced to 5% upon
+Added: receiving approval from in-charge tax authority.
+Added: However, based on the Notice on Certain Issues with Respect to the Enforcement of Dividend
+Added: Provisions in Tax Treaties issued on February 20, 2009 by the SAT, if the relevant PRC tax authorities determine, in their discretion,
+Added: that a company benefits from such reduced income tax rate due to a structure or arrangement that is primarily tax-driven, such PRC tax
+Added: authorities may adjust the preferential tax treatment;
+Added: and based on the Announcement on Relevant Issues Concerning the “Beneficial
+Added: Owners” in Tax Treaties issued on February 3, 2018 by the SAT and effective from April 1, 2018, which replaces the Notice on the
+Added: Interpretation and Recognition of Beneficial Owners in Tax Treaties and the Announcement on the Recognition of Beneficial Owners in Tax
+Added: Treaties by the SAT, comprehensive analysis based on the stipulated factor therein and actual circumstances shall be adopted when recognizing
+Added: the “beneficial owner” and agents and designated wire beneficiaries are specifically excluded from being recognized as “beneficial
+Added: to applicable PRC tax regulations, any entity or individual conducting business in the service industry used to be generally required
+Added: to pay a business tax at the rate of 5% on the revenues generated from providing such services.
+Added: However, if the services provided are
+Added: related to technology development and transfer, such business tax may be exempted subject to approval by the relevant tax authorities.
+Added: Whereas, pursuant to the Provisional Regulations on Value-Added Tax of the PRC and its implementation regulations, unless otherwise specified
+Added: by relevant laws and regulations, any entity or individual engaged in the sales of goods, provision of processing, repairs and replacement
+Added: services and importation of goods into China is generally required to pay a value-added tax, or VAT, for revenues generated from sales
+Added: of products, while qualified input VAT paid on taxable purchase can be offset against such output VAT.
+Added: November 2011, the Ministry of Finance and the State Administration of Taxation promulgated the Pilot Plan for Imposition of Value-Added
+Added: Tax to Replace Business Tax.
+Added: In March 2016, the Ministry of Finance and the State Administration of Taxation further promulgated the
+Added: Notice on Fully Promoting the Pilot Plan for Replacing Business Tax by Value-Added Tax, which became effective on May 1, 2016.
+Added: to the pilot plan and relevant notices, VAT is generally imposed in lieu of business tax in the modern service industries, including
+Added: the VATS, on a nationwide basis.
+Added: VAT of a rate of 6% applies to revenue derived from the provision of some modern services.
+Added: Certain small
+Added: taxpayers under PRC law are subject to reduced value-added tax at a rate of 3%.
+Added: Unlike business tax, a taxpayer is allowed to offset
+Added: the qualified input VAT paid on taxable purchases against the output VAT chargeable on the modern services provided.
+Added: April 4, 2018, the Ministry of Finance and the State Administration of Taxation issued the Notice on Adjustment of VAT Rates, which
+Added: came into effect on May 1, 2018.
+Added: According to the abovementioned notice, the taxable goods previously subject to VAT rates of 17%
+Added: and 11%, respectively, become subject to lower VAT rates of 16% and 10%, respectively, starting from May 1, 2018.
+Added: according to the Announcement on Relevant Policies for Deepening Value-added Tax Reform jointly promulgated by the Ministry of
+Added: Finance, the State Administration of Taxation and the General Administration of Customs, which became effective on April 1, 2019,
+Added: the taxable goods previously subject to VAT rates of 16% and 10%, respectively, become subject to lower VAT rates of 13% and 9%,
+Added: respectively, starting from April 1, 2019.
+Added: Under Provisional Regulations of the People’s Republic of China on Value-added Tax,
+Added: amended and effective on November 19, 2017, for entities that are VAT small taxpayers, VAT is levied at a levy rate of 3%.
+Added: February 29, 2020, the State Administration of Taxation issued the Announcement on Taxation Matters to Support Individual Businesses
+Added: in Resumption of Business, during the COVID-19, the small taxpayers are allowed to enjoy the preferred tax policy, tax rate from 3%
+Added: to 1% for the period from March 1, 2020 to December 31, 2021.
of our intellectual property is a strategic priority for our business.
−Removed: We rely primarily on a combination of trademark and trade
−Removed: secret laws to establish and protect our proprietary rights.
−Removed: currently have three registered trademarks in China.
−Removed: of April 13, 2021, the Company had 56 employees, all of which were on a full-time basis.
−Removed: The following table sets forth
−Removed: the number of our full-time employees categorized by function as of April 13, 2021:
+Added: We rely primarily on a combination of trademark and trade secret
+Added: laws to establish and protect our proprietary rights.
+Added: currently have seven registered trademarks in China as follows:
+Added: of our products and services bear the registered trademarks of “ ” (“水宜家”) or “Shui
+Added: Yi Jia.” These trademarks are owned by Yuwen Li, one of our shareholders.
+Added: Yuwen Li has signed a license agreement with Xixingdao
+Added: to authorize Xixingdao to use those trademarks at no cost to us.
+Added: Pursuant to the agreement with Mr.
+Added: Li, titles to those trademarks will
+Added: be transferred to Xixingdao upon the completion of the registration transfer.
+Added: currently have the following three registered works copyrights in China:
+Added: 国作登字-2020-F-01147904
+Added: 国作登字-2020-F-00001673
+Added: 国作登字-2020-F-00001391
+Added: currently have the following eighteen registered software copyrights in China
+Added: 2021SR0833407
+Added: water online distribution management system
+Added: 2021SR0833438
+Added: water sales financial statement management system
+Added: 2021SR0833409
+Added: water transportation service management system
+Added: 2021SR0833441
+Added: Environmental
+Added: monitoring and management system for barreled water storage
+Added: 2021SR0833447
+Added: management system for barreled water transport vehicles
+Added: 2021SR0833448
+Added: water sales service management system
+Added: 2021SR0833451
+Added: water sales customer management system
+Added: 2021SR0833369
+Added: system of barreled water sales data
+Added: 2021SR0833366
+Added: water storage service management system
+Added: 2021SR0833450
+Added: water sales financial service management system
+Added: 2021SR1675516
+Added: trading internet platform system
+Added: 2021SR1675492
+Added: trading customer software
+Added: 2021SR1675466
+Added: supermarket trading system
+Added: 2021SR1684106
+Added: tracking label identification system software
+Added: 2021SR1684107
+Added: safety data tracking system
+Added: 2021SR1671192
+Added: e-commerce portal management platform
+Added: 2021SR1671159
+Added: distributor management system
+Added: 2021SR1671739
+Added: product online sales promotion exchange platform
+Added: currently have the following registered Internet domain names in China:
+Added: Capital Resources
+Added: of March 31, 2022, the Company had 72 full-time employees and no part-time employees in the following functions:
and marketing
−Removed: and Engineering
+Added: and supply chain
and administrative
of our employees are based in the cities of Shenzhen and Dongguan, where our operations are located.
−Removed: required by PRC regulations, we participate in various government statutory employee benefit plans, including social insurance
−Removed: funds, namely a pension contribution plan, a medical insurance plan, an unemployment insurance plan, a work-related injury insurance
−Removed: plan, a maternity insurance plan and a housing provident fund.
−Removed: We are required under PRC law to make contributions to employee
−Removed: benefit plans at specified percentages of the salaries, bonuses and certain allowances of our employees, up to a maximum amount
−Removed: specified by the local government from time to time.
−Removed: We have not made adequate employee benefit payments, and may be required
−Removed: to make up the contributions for these plans as well as to pay late fees and fines.
+Added: board of directors provides oversight on certain human capital matters, including diversity, and our employee rewards and benefits program.
+Added: Under the board’s oversight, the Company conducts employee retention reviews to attract, retain and develop a workforce that aligns
+Added: with our values and strategies.
+Added: Culture and People Philosophy
+Added: believe that employees with strong people philosophy and people-based corporate culture are likely to develop a strong sense of belonging
+Added: in the organization.
+Added: We care about employees’ interests and personal preferences and offer each employee with the best job suitable
+Added: for their skillset and career interest.
+Added: We support a transparent and accessible corporate culture to make management and team leaders
+Added: accessible to employees.
+Added: We value the benefits of two-ways communications (top-down and bottom-up) to hear the voices from the employees
+Added: to promote the strong sense of belonging in our Company.
+Added: Training and Talent Development
+Added: Training and self-development programs are provided
+Added: to employees periodically which include customer service training, financial controller training, delivery procedures training, compliance
+Added: training on industry related government rules and regulations, as well as informal training.
+Added: Employees are encouraged to participate
+Added: in different training programs to enhance their problem-solving skills, advancement and continuous self-development.
+Added: support employee involvement and personal and professional development in our Company.
+Added: We engage employees and offer continued opportunities
+Added: Inclusion and Equal Opportunities
+Added: are committed to gender equality by providing fair recruitment, training and promotion opportunities for all employees.
+Added: year-end of 2021, female employees represented approximately 40% of the total workforce.
+Added: We aim to invest in developing
+Added: talented leaders across all management levels including increased women members of management at our company and subsidiaries.
+Added: addition to gender equality, we also seek to hire employees from different educational background, profession, demographics and
+Added: We have hired employees from different ethnicities, backgrounds and regions all across mainland China.
+Added: In order to retain
+Added: the best available candidates, we evaluate the qualifications and experience of the employees through interviews and professional
+Added: references to recruit the right persons from a wide range of sources.
+Added: We aim to create an inclusive workplace, further promote a diverse workforce, and bring in new cultures and energy.
+Added: required by PRC regulations, we participate in various government statutory employee benefit plans, including social insurance funds,
+Added: namely a pension contribution plan, a medical insurance plan, an unemployment insurance plan, a work-related injury insurance plan, a
+Added: maternity insurance plan and a housing provident fund.
+Added: We are required under PRC law to make contributions to employee benefit plans
+Added: at specified percentages of the salaries, bonuses and certain allowances of our employees, up to a maximum amount specified by the local
+Added: government from time to time.
+Added: We previously had not made all employee benefit payments, and may be required to make up the contributions
+Added: for these plans as well as to pay late fees and fines.
believe that we maintain a good working relationship with our employees, and we have not experienced any major labor disputes.
−Removed: Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K, and amendments to reports filed pursuant
−Removed: to Sections 13(a) and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), are filed with
−Removed: the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”).
−Removed: Such reports and other information filed by the Company with the
−Removed: SEC are available free of charge on our corporate website (http://www.fvti.show/ as soon as reasonably practicable after
−Removed: they are electronically filed with or furnished to the SEC.
−Removed: The SEC maintains an internet site that contains reports, proxy and
−Removed: information statements, and other information regarding issuers that file electronically with the SEC at www.sec.gov.
−Removed: The foregoing
−Removed: website addresses are provided as inactive textual references only.
−Removed: We periodically provide other information for investors on
−Removed: our corporate website.
−Removed: This includes press releases and other information about financial performance and information on corporate
−Removed: The information contained on the websites referenced in this Form 10-K is not part of this report and is not incorporated
−Removed: by reference into this filing.
+Added: Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K, and amendments to reports filed pursuant to
+Added: Sections 13(a) and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), are filed with the Securities
+Added: and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”).
+Added: Such reports and other information filed by the Company with the SEC are available free
+Added: of charge on our corporate website (http://www.fvti.show/ as soon as reasonably practicable after they are electronically filed with
+Added: or furnished to the SEC.
+Added: The SEC maintains an internet site that contains reports, proxy and information statements, and other information
+Added: regarding issuers that file electronically with the SEC at www.sec.gov.
+Added: The foregoing website addresses are provided as inactive textual
+Added: references only.
+Added: We periodically provide other information for investors on our corporate website.
+Added: This includes press releases and other
+Added: information about financial performance and information on corporate governance.
+Added: The information contained on the websites referenced
+Added: in this Form 10-K is not part of this report and is not incorporated by reference into this filing.
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