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Overview

We’ve updated Search, Lite Profile, and Enhanced Profile responses for China (ISO code CN) with improved data quality and additional identifiers across all products. The headline change is consistent use of the Unified Social Credit Code (USCC) as the primary identifier, alongside a structured otherIdentifiersField array that carries the legacy registration and organisation codes.

Key points

  • Search: registrationAuthorityField and registrationNumberField are now returned
  • Lite Profile: codeField now returns the Unified Social Credit Code (consistent with search), plus new registrationDateField, registrationAuthorityField, registrationNumberField, companyNameInEnglishField, address typeField, and a structured otherIdentifiersField array. Empty fields are no longer returned.
  • Enhanced Profile: Same identifier improvements as Lite, plus activity and address typeField, a split currencyField on capital and shareholdings, normalised legalFormField with raw legalFormDeclarationField, and enriched shareHoldersField (address, currency, total share value, and idField for corporate shareholders)
  • Identifiers: A new otherIdentifiersField array carries the legacy 15-digit Business Registration Number (CN_BRN_CD / CN_LEGACY_REG_CD) and the organisation code (CN_ORG_CD) where available

Search results

registrationAuthorityField and registrationNumberField are now returned in search results, giving the registering authority and the Unified Social Credit Code directly from the search response. Before:
After:

Key changes

  • registrationAuthorityField: New — the authority the company is registered with
  • registrationNumberField: New — the Unified Social Credit Code

Lite profile changes

The Lite Profile response has been improved with the Unified Social Credit Code as the primary identifier, additional fields, structured identifiers, and cleaner data formatting. Before:
After:

Key changes

New fields

  • registrationDateField: Now populated with the company’s registration date
  • registrationAuthorityField: Now populated with the registering authority
  • registrationNumberField: Now populated with the Unified Social Credit Code
  • companyNameInEnglishField: Now populated with the English company name
  • addressesFieldtypeField: New — indicates the address type (e.g., "Registered Address")
  • otherIdentifiersField: New array (typeField, valueField) carrying the legacy 15-digit Business Registration Number and the organisation code where available

Improved data

  • codeField: Now returns the Unified Social Credit Code, consistent with search results
  • Empty fields are no longer returned: Fields with no value (including empty address subfields such as addressLine2FieldaddressLine4Field, cityTownField, regionStateField, and postcodeField, and empty activityField entries) are now omitted from the response rather than returned as empty strings

Enhanced profile changes

The Enhanced Profile includes all Lite Profile improvements above, plus structured activities, split currency on capital and shareholdings, normalised legal form, and enriched shareholder data. Before:
After:

Key changes

New fields

  • activityFieldtypeField: New — classifies each activity as "Primary", "Secondary", or "Tertiary"
  • addressesFieldtypeField: New — indicates the address type (e.g., "Registered Address")
  • capitalFieldcurrencyField: New — the currency is now returned in its own field (previously appended to ammountField)
  • legalFormField: New — the normalised legal form
  • legalFormDeclarationField: New — the raw legal form as supplied by the registry
  • registrationDateField: New — the company’s registration date
  • registrationNumberField: New — the Unified Social Credit Code
  • otherIdentifiersField: New array (typeField, valueField) carrying the legacy 15-digit Business Registration Number (CN_BRN_CD) and the organisation code (CN_ORG_CD) where available
  • previousNamesField: New — previous company names where available

Shareholders

shareHoldersField entries are now enriched with:
  • addressField: New — the shareholder’s address
  • currencyField: New — the currency is now parsed into its own field (previously appended to nominalValueField)
  • totalShareValueField: New — the total share value
  • idField: New — the registration number, populated for corporate shareholders

Improved data

  • codeField: Now returns the Unified Social Credit Code, consistent with search results

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