1,314,655 registered local companies are filed to the end of June whereas at the end of 2015 this figure was at the level of 25,989.
The total number of local companies registered in the first half of 2016 amounted to 71,769, and 17,452 of this number were incorporated online using the e-Registry.
The Registrar of Companies Ada Chung reported that was launched a mobile application - the Company Search Mobile Service. It allows users to conduct all types of search, using smart phones and mobile devices to receive updated information about the company including documents, records and images at any time.
There were registered 466 non-Hong Kong companies that have established a place of business in Hong Kong in the first half of 2016, compared with 478 in the second half of last year. The total number of registered non-Hong Kong companies reached 10,273 by the end of June 2016.
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