China Readiness
APAC sub-track. Research and readiness map only. Not legal, tax, ICP, payment, immigration, or compliance advice.
Status
APAC sub-track. Research and readiness map only. Not legal, tax, ICP, payment, immigration, or compliance advice.
Required Areas
| Area | Readiness note |
|---|---|
| Business account collection | Prefer company bank account, Alipay business account, WeChat Pay merchant, and public account collection when legally ready. Avoid personal QR-code business collection as a long-term pattern. |
| ICP and China hosting | Start with a China landing page or mini-program preview. ICP filing or license becomes relevant when serving Mainland China from Mainland infrastructure or operating locally. |
| Data localization | For China-facing services, evaluate Mainland data residency, a separate China data plane, and separation from global user data. |
| Local AI services | Plan local AI alternatives instead of assuming OpenAI or other foreign APIs are available or appropriate. |
| Early China landing page | Start with a lightweight China landing page or mini-program preview before full China operations. |
| China app/service packages | Research Douban personal data sovereignty, Juejin plugin intelligence, overseas GitHub curated picks, and Chinese AI-builder launch toolkit. |
| Competitors | Feishu, DingTalk, WeCom, enterprise middle-platform tools, low-code/no-code suites, and Chinese AI productivity tools. |
| Risk | Do not use a China company as a magic wrapper to bypass Spain tax, residence, work authorization, or operational reality. |
Runtime-first China Positioning
The China-facing path should not try to become Feishu Workbench, DingTalk Workbench, WeCom, or a replacement for enterprise IM, approval flows, and private organization suites. Those products already own the daily communication graph, approvals, enterprise identity, and internal workbench layer.
Prox OS should position around a Runtime-first workspace layer: Apps, Datasets, Connectors, permissions, AI context, and owner-controlled resources. It can connect to or import from Feishu, DingTalk, Tencent Docs, WeCom, and local low-code platforms, but it should not start by competing with their organization relationship model.
The early China-ready product should feel closer to an AI Studio workbench for small teams, founders, independent studios, and builders than a full enterprise collaboration suite.
Import-first Data Strategy
Do not assume early access to every consumer data source, super-app account, short-video platform, ecommerce history, payment bill, or social graph. The near-term path should be import-first:
- CSV, Excel, and xlsx upload.
- Manual dataset creation and schema preview.
- Office documents and spreadsheets.
- Feishu Bitable, Tencent Docs, DingTalk Yida, and WeCom as later connector candidates.
- Curated connector experiments before broad public integrations.
Connector work should start with clear permission scopes, dataset outputs, and manual review. China-ready Prox OS should not launch as an open public feed, a free-for-all app publishing network, or a public AI content UGC platform.
Private And Curated Defaults
Near-term China-ready posture:
- Private by default.
- Curated templates.
- Curated App Store.
- No arbitrary public app publishing at launch.
- No open public UGC by default.
- Small-team workspace first.
- Compliance-aware connector and dataset boundaries.
Pricing, onboarding, and connector UI should describe this as roadmap and readiness work, not as completed compliance or enterprise deployment.
China-Specific Product Experiments
| Experiment | Stage | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| China landing page | Early Beta | Explain Prox OS concept, waitlist, and APAC partner interest. |
| Mini-program preview | Research | Useful for awareness, not a substitute for full compliance. |
| Douban data sovereignty Space | Research | Personal data storytelling and export/import sensitivity must be reviewed. |
| Juejin plugin intelligence | Research | Developer audience, public-source indexing, local platform norms. |
| Overseas GitHub curated picks | Research | Bridge global open source discovery into a Chinese-readable Space. |
| Chinese AI-builder launch toolkit | Research | Needs local AI provider and compliance review. |
Reference Links
- PRC Personal Information Protection Law English text: Supreme People's Procuratorate
- China cross-border data flow regulation summary: State Council
- Generative AI services regulation summary: State Council