A virtual office in China is a business address in a real building, used by a company that does not rent space in that building. Wezoo lists 155 such addresses across 45 Chinese cities, from Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen down to single addresses in Weihai, Xiamen and Huainan. This page sets out where they are, what the listing does and does not tell you about each one, and how to ask for one.
Most of what is written in English about a virtual office in China is written by company formation advisers, and it is about procedure. This page is about the addresses themselves, because that is what we can show you.
What you get with a virtual office in China — and what you do not
The product is the address. You get the use of a named building in a named city, operated by a workspace company that has a staffed presence there, and you put that address on your website, your business cards and your correspondence. You do not get a desk, a room or any floor area reserved for you.
That last point is not a figure of speech. On Wezoo a virtual office entry carries no floor area, no occupancy number and no amenity list of its own, because there is nothing to measure: nobody is assigned a space. What the listing does carry is the building, the city, the operator and the facilities of the building itself.
Those building facilities are worth reading, because they are the part you will actually use when you visit. Across the 155 Chinese addresses the listings name eleven of them: breakout space, catering, a coffee and tea bar, a lounge, a restaurant, parking, a public car park nearby, public transport nearby, bicycle storage, climate control and step-free access. Each address carries its own set, and the sixteen below are written from theirs.
Where a virtual office is available in China — the cities and how many addresses in each
The 155 addresses sit in 45 cities. Shanghai carries by far the most, and the three largest cities together account for more than half the national list. The long tail matters too: there are addresses in provincial capitals and manufacturing cities where a foreign company would otherwise have no presence at all.
| City | Virtual office addresses |
|---|---|
| Shanghai |
34 |
| Beijing |
13 |
| Shenzhen |
11 |
| Xi’an |
7 |
| Hangzhou |
7 |
| Wuhan |
7 |
| Tianjin |
6 |
| Ningbo |
5 |
| Guangzhou |
5 |
| Suzhou |
4 |
| Jinan |
4 |
| Shenyang |
4 |
| Nanjing |
4 |
| Chengdu |
4 |
Those fourteen cities hold 115 of the addresses. Of the remaining 31 cities, nine have two addresses each (Changsha, Chongqing, Foshan, Fuzhou, Haikou, Hefei, Kunming, Nantong and Qingdao) and twenty-two have one: Changchun, Changzhou, Dalian, Huainan, Jiaxing, Jining, Kunshan, Mianyang, Nanchang, Shangrao, Shijiazhuang, Taiyuan, Taizhou, Tangshan, Tongxiang, Weihai, Wuxi, Xiamen, Xiangtan, Yantai, Zhengzhou and Zhongshan.
The network is carried by a small group of operators. Regus runs most of the Chinese buildings on this list, with HQ and Spaces running the rest and two further addresses under other names. In practice that means the service standard between one Chinese city and the next is more consistent than the city sizes would suggest.
The Wezoo virtual office addresses in China, building by building
Sixteen of the 155, chosen to cover the thirteen largest cities on the list. Each one links straight through to its own page, where you can send the request.
1. Reeb Building — Shanghai
Reeb Building, Shanghai. Photo by Regus.
A tower on the Hongqiao side of Shanghai with public transport on the doorstep, breakout space and catering inside the building.
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2. Cloud 9 International Plaza — Shanghai
Cloud 9 International Plaza, Shanghai. Photo by Regus.
A glass-fronted plaza in Shanghai with a lounge, a coffee and tea bar, parking and step-free access.
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3. Kerry Centre — Beijing
Kerry Centre, Beijing. Photo by Regus.
One of the landmark towers of the Beijing CBD, with a restaurant, a lounge, a coffee and tea bar and parking in the building.
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4. Landgent Centre — Beijing
Reception at Landgent Centre, Beijing. Photo by Regus.
A Beijing centre with a staffed reception, a lounge, a coffee and tea bar, parking on site and a public car park next door.
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5. Ping An International Finance Centre — Shenzhen
Ping An International Finance Centre, Shenzhen. Photo by Regus.
The tallest address on this list, in the Futian financial district of Shenzhen, with a lounge, a coffee and tea bar, parking and step-free access.
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6. JoyCity — Shenzhen
JoyCity, Shenzhen. Photo by Regus.
A mixed-use building in Shenzhen with breakout space and catering, and nothing else claimed for it in the listing.
7. Teem Tower 27/F — Guangzhou
Teem Tower 27/F, Guangzhou. Photo by Regus.
A Tianhe tower in Guangzhou with the fullest building list of the sixteen: lounge, coffee and tea bar, parking, a public car park nearby, public transport nearby and step-free access.
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8. China Resources Building — Chengdu
Reception at China Resources Building, Chengdu. Photo by Regus.
A Chengdu tower with a restaurant, a lounge, a coffee and tea bar, bicycle storage, parking and step-free access.
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9. Chongqing PICC Building — Chongqing
Lobby directory at Chongqing PICC Building, Chongqing. Photo by Regus.
A Chongqing building whose lobby carries the tenant directory, with a lounge, parking and step-free access.
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10. Delixi Mansion — Hangzhou
Delixi Mansion, Hangzhou. Photo by Regus.
A Hangzhou tower with public transport and a public car park nearby, plus a lounge and a coffee and tea bar.
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11. 1628 Zhongshan Avenue — Wuhan
1628 Zhongshan Avenue, Wuhan. Photo by Regus.
A Wuhan address on Zhongshan Avenue, with public transport and a public car park nearby, a lounge and a coffee and tea bar.
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12. Tianjin Golden Valley Center — Tianjin
Tianjin Golden Valley Center, Tianjin. Wezoo brand card: no building photo was available for this address.
A Tianjin centre in the Golden Valley cluster, with public transport nearby, a lounge and a coffee and tea bar.
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13. Digital Economy Industrial Park — Xi’an
Digital Economy Industrial Park, Xi’an. Photo by Spaces.
A Spaces building in the Xi’an digital economy park, with breakout space and catering.
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14. Railway Fund Building — Jinan
Reception at Railway Fund Building, Jinan. Photo by Regus.
A Jinan office building with a staffed reception, breakout space and catering.
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15. Fortune Plaza Tower A — Shenyang
Fortune Plaza Tower A, Shenyang. Photo by Regus.
A Shenyang tower on Qingnian Street with public transport nearby, breakout space and catering.
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16. Deji Plaza — Nanjing
Deji Plaza, Nanjing. Photo by Regus.
A Nanjing address beside the Xinjiekou shopping district, with a coffee and tea bar, parking and step-free access.
What a virtual office costs in China — and is there a free option?
None of the 155 Chinese addresses publishes a price. That is not missing data, it is how this product is sold: the operator quotes against what you ask for, because an address on its own and an address with mail forwarding, a local phone line and meeting room credits are different things at different prices. Every Chinese address on Wezoo is quoted in Chinese yuan.
So the honest answer to the question people type into Google is this. There is no free virtual office in China on this list, and you should treat a free offer elsewhere with care, because an address that costs the operator nothing to give you is usually an address that will not stand up when somebody checks it. What you can do for nothing is compare the addresses, pick two or three buildings in the city you want, and ask all of them what their package includes and what it costs.
What moves the price
| The city |
A Shanghai CBD tower is not a Shangrao office building |
| The building |
A landmark tower carries a different rate from a business park |
| The package |
Address only, or address plus mail, phone and meeting rooms |
| The term |
Month to month, or a longer commitment |
Is a virtual office legal in China, and which addresses the registrar accepts
This is the question the English-language search results are full of, and it is the one where we are going to tell you less than they do, on purpose. We have not verified which authority decides whether a given address may be used as a company’s registered address in China, nor the conditions it applies. So we are not going to name an authority, quote a rule or tell you that the addresses on this page are legally usable for a company registration. Anyone who does that without showing you the source is guessing on your behalf, and the cost of a wrong guess here lands on you, not on them.
Here is what we can tell you, because we can see it.
- Every address on this page is a real building at a real street address in a real Chinese city, operated by a workspace company with staff on site.
- A registered address and a mailing address are not the same thing. A mailing address is where your post arrives. A registered address is the address a company is formally tied to, and it is subject to rules that a mailing address is not.
- Whether a particular address can serve as a registered address is a matter for the operator of that building and for the authorities of that city, and the answer is not the same everywhere in China.
- The operator is the party that supplies the paperwork, and the party that knows what it is set up to offer at that address.
Who uses a virtual office — and who should not
The clearest case is a company outside China that needs to be reachable inside it. You have customers, a distributor or a manufacturing partner in the country, you want a Chinese address and a local point of contact on your website, and you are not ready to put people in a building. The second case is a company that already has staff in China who work from home or on the road, and that wants one fixed address instead of somebody’s apartment.
The third case is testing. A virtual office in Shanghai or Shenzhen costs a fraction of a lease, so a company can hold an address in a market for a year while it finds out whether the market is worth more than that.
Who should not take one. If anyone on your team needs somewhere to work on a normal Tuesday, this is the wrong product, and a private office or a coworking desk is the right one. If you are expecting the address alone to complete a company registration, read the section above again. And if you want an address in a city where we list only one building, check that the one building suits you before you plan around it.
Our guide to private offices in China covers the same 155 buildings for teams that do need a room of their own.
How to request a virtual office on Wezoo
A virtual office is not booked, it is requested. There is no calendar to pick a slot from, because there is no slot: you are asking an operator to give your company the use of an address, and they come back with what that includes and what it costs.
- Pick the city. If you are not tied to one, start with the three that carry the most addresses: Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen.
- Pick two or three buildings in that city, using the facilities listed on each page to narrow it down.
- Send the request from the building’s own page. Say what you need the address for, and name mail handling, forwarding or phone answering if you need them, since those are not on the listing.
- Compare the answers. Packages differ more between operators than the addresses do.
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Frequently asked questions
How many virtual office addresses does Wezoo list in China?
Wezoo lists 155 virtual office addresses in China, spread across 45 cities. Shanghai has 34, Beijing 13 and Shenzhen 11; the other 42 cities have between one and seven each.
What does a virtual office in China include?
It includes the use of a business address in a named building, and access to that building’s own facilities, which differ per address and are listed on each page. Mail handling, mail forwarding and phone answering are not part of the Wezoo listing in China; they vary by operator and are agreed when you make your request.
How much does a virtual office in China cost?
None of the 155 Chinese addresses publishes a price, so pricing is on request. What you pay depends on the city, the building, the package and the term, and all Chinese addresses are quoted in Chinese yuan.
Can I use a Wezoo virtual office address to register a company in China?
We cannot tell you that, and we will not guess. We have not verified which authority decides the question or what conditions it applies, so this page does not name one. Ask the operator of the building in writing, and have the answer confirmed by a qualified adviser and the competent authority in China before you file anything.
Is there a free virtual office in China?
Not on this list. Comparing addresses and asking several operators what their package includes costs nothing, and is the practical way to find the cheapest address that actually suits you.
Is a virtual office the same as a coworking desk?
No. A virtual office gives you an address with no space reserved for you. If somebody on your team needs a place to work, you want a coworking desk or a private office instead.
