Business_Licence_in_a_tea_shop_in_Suzhou

A Unified Social Credit Identifier (USCC) is issued to registered companies and other types of organization by the Chinese government. It is "unified" in the sense that it is used both as the business registration number with the

State Administration for Market Regulation The State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR; ) is a ministerial-level agency directly under the State Council of the People's Republic of China responsible for market supervision and management. SAMR was established in 2018. It is China ...

(SAMR) and as the taxpayer identifier with the

State Taxation Administration The State Taxation Administration (STA; Chinese: 国家税务总局) is a ministerial-level department within the government of the People's Republic of China. It is under the direction of the State Council, and is responsible for the collecti ...

(STA). These identifiers are now used widely as the only organization ID within and outside of the government. An identifier must be obtained before one can operate a business in China.

History

Previously, business owners in China had to obtain a business permit with a unique id from the

State Administration for Industry and Commerce The State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC; ) was the authority in the People's Republic of China responsible for advancing legislation concerning the administration of industry and commerce in the People's Republic. On a local leve ...

(SAIC), a taxpayer identifier from the STA, and an organization code from

Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China ( zh, 中华人民共和国国家质量监督检验检疫总局, abbreviated AQSIQ) was a ministerial-level department under the State ...

(AQSIQ) until reforms in 2015 introduced the USCC. SAIC and AQSIQ were merged into the newly founded SAMR following an organizational reform by the State Council in 2018.

Format

A Unified Social Credit Identifier is defined by GB 32100-2015 standard. It is 18 characters long and consists of

Arabic numerals The ten Arabic numerals (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9) are the most commonly used symbols for writing numbers. The term often also implies a positional notation number with a decimal base, in particular when contrasted with Roman numera ...

and

uppercase Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (more formally ''#Majuscule, majuscule'') and smaller lowercase (more formally ''#Minuscule, minuscule'') in the written representation of certain langua ...

English letters Modern English is written with a Latin-script alphabet consisting of 26 letters, with each having both uppercase and lowercase forms. The word ''alphabet'' is a compound of ''alpha'' and ''beta'', the names of the first two letters in the ...

(but excluding I, O, Z, S, and V). * Registration management department code () represents the major category of registration organization, for example, 1 is the government department category, 5 is a civil affairs category, 9 is an industrial and commercial category, and Y is another category. * Organization Category Code () represents the minor category of registration organization. * Address code of the registration authority () refers to the registration authority's location, where

administrative divisions Administrative divisions (also administrative units, administrative regions, subnational entities, or constituent states, as well as many similar generic terms) are geographical areas into which a particular independent sovereign state is divi ...

(including

cities A city is a human settlement of a substantial size. The term "city" has different meanings around the world and in some places the settlement can be very small. Even where the term is limited to larger settlements, there is no universally agree ...

banners A banner can be a flag or another piece of cloth bearing a symbol, logo, slogan or another message. A flag whose design is the same as the shield in a coat of arms (but usually in a square or rectangular shape) is called a banner of arms. Also, ...

, and

districts A district is a type of administrative division that in some countries is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions ...

) have their own specific codes. * Entity identification code () is the unique serial number of the organization, Its predecessor is the "organization code ()" and is encoded in accordance with GB 11714. * The Checksum is the final digit, which confirms the validity of the ID number from the first 17 digits, utilizing

ISO 7064 ISO/IEC 7064 is a standard promulgated by the International Standards Organization (ISO) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) that defines algorithms for calculating check digit characters. The checks should be applicable to alphanu ...

MOD Mod, MOD or mods may refer to: Places * Modesto City–County Airport, Stanislaus County, California, US Arts, entertainment, and media Music * Mods (band), a Norwegian rock band * M.O.D. (Method of Destruction), a band from New York City, US * ...

31-3.

Today

* As of December 1, 2023, the USCC database contained over 188 million legal entities and organizations, a 12.14% increase from 2022. * The data has been widely applied in fields such as tax, banking, and insurance, supporting information sharing among more than 30 government departments and providing information services to the public. In 2023, the inquiry volume was approximately 255 million times.

References

External links

{{Wikidata property, P6795 Taxation in China National identification numbers