• Guangdong launched the Bay Area Registration online service zone on 27 October 2026 for Hong Kong and Macao investors entering the nine mainland cities.
  2026 年 10 月 27 日，广东上线”湾区注册线上服务专区”，服务港澳投资者赴大湾区内地九市投资准入。

• Notarial Document Digitisation now covers Macao instruments, the first such arrangement in the country.
  公证文书电子化流转现已覆盖澳门文书，这在全国尚属首次。

• Remote Identity Verification works through a handwritten signature submitted online, facial recognition, or a lawyer or notary acting under authorisation.
  跨境身份核验可通过”手写签名 + 线上提交”、刷脸认证，或授权委托律师、公证员代为认证完成。

• The zone embeds intelligent pre-review and a three-place company search, so filing, verification, real-name authentication, signing and archiving run electronically.
  专区嵌入智能预审与三地企业信息查询，使申报、核验、实名、签名、归档全流程电子化。

• The zone serves Hong Kong and Macao investors only; other jurisdictions still follow notarisation and legalisation routes.
  专区只服务港澳投资者，其他司法辖区的投资者仍需走公证认证与纸质流转。

• At the end of September 2026 Guangdong had 106,000 Hong Kong-invested and 15,000 Macao-invested enterprises, 55 per cent of the province’s foreign-invested legal persons.
  截至 2026 年 9 月末，广东登记在册港资企业 10.6 万户、澳资企业 1.5 万户，占全省外资法人企业的 55%。

The Bay Area Registration Zone: Online Incorporation for Hong Kong and Macao Investors | 湾区注册线上服务专区：港澳投资者如何在内地九市全程在线设立企业

Overview

On 27 October 2026 the Guangdong Provincial Administration for Market Regulation launched the Bay Area Registration online service zone, co-organised by the Commercial Service Bureau of the Hengqin Guangdong-Macao Deep Cooperation Zone. The zone sits on the Guangdong Government Service Network and handles market entry registration for Hong Kong and Macao investors establishing entities in the nine mainland cities of the Greater Bay Area. The service is paperless and runs end to end online.

The landing page carries an application entry point, a process walkthrough, a signing guide with video instructions, and zone news.

One boundary belongs at the top: the zone is built for Hong Kong and Macao investors, not for investors from other jurisdictions.

Three capabilities

Notarial document digitisation. Building on an earlier arrangement for Hong Kong notarial instruments, the zone is the first in the country to digitise the circulation of Macao notarial documents, so verification is paperless.

Remote identity verification. The zone introduces a model of a handwritten signature submitted online, widens identity verification channels, and supports facial recognition for Hong Kong and Macao residents, or verification through a lawyer or a notary acting under a power of attorney.

A rebuilt workflow. An intelligent pre-review mechanism and a company information search covering the three places are embedded, so that filing, verification, real-name authentication, signing and archiving all happen electronically.

The platform and the first licences

On the same day the administration opened the Bay Area soft-connectivity advisory platform in Hengqin, run through the cooperation zone’s commercial service bureau, to advise on market access policy. On the launch day, the first Hong Kong-invested and Macao-invested enterprises registered through the zone received their business licences.

How three bottlenecks fell

The history shows which steps were the obstacle. The notarial bundle went from 60 pages to four. A model combining facial recognition with signature by an authorised notary was introduced. In 2025 Hengqin and China Legal Service (Macao) set up an electronic verification mechanism for notarial documents in commercial registration, cutting processing time by more than four days.

Three bottlenecks recur in cross-border incorporation: the notarial document, the signature and the identity check. Each required a person or a paper to cross a border. Digitising the document removes the paper; a signature submitted online removes the trip to the counter; facial recognition removes the appearance in person.

What it changes for a holding structure

A group using a Hong Kong or Macao company as its investment platform meets three points of friction in a fixed order: the notarial document proves who the shareholder is, the signature proves who signed, and the identity check proves the signer is the person named.

Digitising the first does not merely save postage. A notarial document that circulates electronically can be verified at the moment of filing rather than in a batch, which is what makes pre-review possible at all.

The second changes who can sign without travelling. Where a director of the holding company is not in Guangdong, a handwritten signature uploaded online, or a notary under a power of attorney, replaces a flight. The authority document becomes the operative paper, and its scope is what a reviewer tests.

The third changes what evidence of identity looks like: facial recognition is a channel, not a substitute for the corporate documents.

The base it builds on

At the end of September 2026, Guangdong had 106,000 Hong Kong-invested enterprises and 15,000 Macao-invested enterprises on the register, together 55 per cent of the province’s foreign-invested legal persons.

That base explains the sequence: volume justifies investment in document interoperability, and proximity of the legal systems makes a verification mechanism negotiable.

What it does not settle

The zone removes friction in registration. It does not shorten the substantive obligations that follow — the foreign investment information report, the business scope and the beneficial owner filing. Those remain, with their own deadlines.

Nor does it publish a uniform completion time. A service that is faster in the ordinary case is not a service with a guaranteed clock; a project plan should not assume one.

The jurisdictional boundary is the other limit. A company incorporated in a third country cannot use the zone; notarisation and legalisation still apply, and documents still travel on paper. A group holding its China platform through a Singapore or Cayman entity should read this as a signal about structure.

Practical steps

• Confirm the investor’s jurisdiction: a Hong Kong or Macao company can use the zone; a company incorporated elsewhere cannot.
• Collect identity documents for every shareholder and signatory, and check the name forms against the notarial document; a mismatch is the commonest cause of a return.
• If a power of attorney is used, name the lawyer or notary, the act authorised and the period; an authority silent on scope invites questions.
• Keep the electronic archive: the same record is what a bank or a tax bureau will later ask for.
• Sequence tax registration, the bank account and foreign exchange registration as one timeline; the licence starts several clocks at once.

Outlook

Expect the zone to widen its document coverage and to add guidance for sectors with specific approval requirements. For a group using a Hong Kong or Macao holding company as its China platform, the gain is narrow and real: the first step no longer needs a courier.

Sources

• 广东省市场监督管理局·”湾区注册线上服务专区”上线新闻发布：https://amr.gd.gov.cn/zwdt/xwfbt/content/post_4971413.html
• 广东省人民政府门户·大湾区注册服务专区相关报道：https://www.gd.gov.cn/gdywdt/zwzt/ygadwq/rlt/content/post_4972071.html
• 横琴粤澳深度合作区·商事服务与注册便利化动态：https://www.hengqin.gov.cn/macao_zh_hans/hzqgl/dtyw/dtxx/content/post_3954787.html
• 横琴粤澳深度合作区·商事登记公证核验全程电子化机制说明：https://www.hengqin.gov.cn/macao_zh_hans/hzqgl/dtyw/dtxx/content/post_3954787.html

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湾区注册线上服务专区：港澳投资者如何在内地九市全程在线设立企业

概述

2026 年 10 月 27 日，广东省市场监督管理局上线”湾区注册线上服务专区”，横琴粤澳深度合作区商事服务局承办。专区设在广东政务服务网，为香港、澳门投资者赴大湾区内地九市投资准入办理登记注册，全程在线、无纸化。

专区首页设有业务办理入口与流程说明、操作指南与实名签名指引视频，以及湾区动态资讯等模块。

有一条边界要先说清楚：专区是为港澳投资者建的，不是其他司法辖区投资者可以使用的通道。

三项核心能力

公证文书电子化流转。 在落地香港公证文书电子化流转的基础上，专区在全国率先实现澳门公证文书电子化流转，核验全程无纸化。

跨境电子签名。 专区创新推出”手写签名 + 线上提交”模式，拓展身份核验渠道，支持港澳人士刷脸认证，也可以通过授权委托律师、公证员代为认证。

重塑登记流程。 专区嵌入智能预审机制与三地企业信息查询功能，申报、核验、实名、签名、归档全流程电子化。

配套平台与首批执照

同一天，广东省市场监督管理局大湾区软联通咨询服务工作平台（横琴）落地，依托横琴粤澳深度合作区商事服务局，提供市场准入政策咨询。上线当天，首批通过专区办理登记的港资、澳资企业获颁营业执照。

三道卡点是怎么被打通的

沿革能说明哪一步才是真正的障碍。公证文书从 60 页精简到 4 页；首创”人脸识别 + 委托公证人代理签名”模式；2025 年，横琴与中国法律服务（澳门）公司建立”商事登记公证核验全程电子化”服务机制，办理时间较此前压缩 4 天以上。

跨境设立企业，反复出现的卡点只有三个：公证文书、签名、身份核验。每一个都要求一个人或一张纸跨过边境。文书电子化拿掉了纸；手写签名线上提交，让人不必跑到窗口；刷脸认证，让人不必本人到场。

对持股架构意味着什么

以香港或澳门公司作为投资平台进入内地的集团，会按固定顺序遇到同样的三处摩擦：公证文书证明股东是谁，签名证明是谁签的，身份核验证明签名的人就是文书上的那个人。

第一项电子化，省下的不只是邮费。能够电子流转的公证文书，可以在申报的当下核验，而不是成批核验——这正是智能预审得以成立的前提。

第二项改变的是”谁可以不飞过来签字”。当持股公司的董事不在广东，线上提交的手写签名，或受托公证员的签名，替代了一趟航班。授权文本因此成为关键文件，审查要看的正是它的授权范围。

第三项改变的是身份证据的形态：刷脸是一条渠道，不是公司文件的替代品。

它建立在什么基础上

截至 2026 年 9 月末，广东全省登记在册港资企业 10.6 万户、澳资企业 1.5 万户，合计占全省外资法人企业比重的 55%。

这个存量解释了推进的顺序：体量足以支撑文书互通的投入，法律制度的接近程度则使核验机制谈得下来。

它没有解决什么

专区去掉的是登记环节的摩擦。它没有缩短其后的实体义务——外商投资信息报告、经营范围、受益所有人备案。这些仍然要做，各有各的时限。

专区也没有公布统一的办结时限。通常情况下更快，不等于有承诺的时钟；项目计划不应假定一个。

辖区的边界是另一重限制。在第三国设立的公司用不了专区，公证认证的老路仍然有效，文件仍然要纸质流转。以新加坡或开曼实体持有中国平台的集团，应当把它读成关于架构的信号。

落地步骤

• 先确认投资者的辖区：香港、澳门公司可以用专区，在其他地方设立的公司不能。
• 收集每一位股东、每一位签署人的身份文件，并把姓名写法与公证文书逐一核对；不一致是退件最常见的原因。
• 使用授权委托时，写明受托律师或公证员、授权事项与授权期间；对范围含糊的授权，一定会被追问。
• 保留电子档案：日后银行与税务机关要看的，是同一份记录。
• 把税务登记、银行开户、外汇登记排成一条时间线，因为营业执照会同时启动好几个计时。

展望

可以预期专区会扩大文书类型的覆盖范围，并针对有专项审批要求的行业补充指引。对以香港或澳门控股公司作为中国平台的集团，实际收益不大但很实在：第一步不再需要快递。

来源

• 广东省市场监督管理局·”湾区注册线上服务专区”上线新闻发布：https://amr.gd.gov.cn/zwdt/xwfbt/content/post_4971413.html
• 广东省人民政府门户·大湾区注册服务专区相关报道：https://www.gd.gov.cn/gdywdt/zwzt/ygadwq/rlt/content/post_4972071.html
• 横琴粤澳深度合作区·商事服务与注册便利化动态：https://www.hengqin.gov.cn/macao_zh_hans/hzqgl/dtyw/dtxx/content/post_3954787.html
• 横琴粤澳深度合作区·商事登记公证核验全程电子化机制说明：https://www.hengqin.gov.cn/macao_zh_hans/hzqgl/dtyw/dtxx/content/post_3954787.html