ICP Filing:Apply for an ICP filing as an enterprise registered outside the Chinese mainland

You can apply for an ICP filing in the Alibaba Cloud ICP Filing system on a PC or on the Alibaba Cloud app. Before you apply for an ICP filing, take note of the following items:

• The Alibaba Cloud ICP Filing system and the Alibaba Cloud app support only the Chinese language. Make sure that you can read, write, and understand Chinese when you apply for an ICP filing.

• You can use your Alibaba Cloud account that is created on the Alibaba Cloud international site (alibabacloud.com) to log on to the Alibaba Cloud ICP Filing system on a PC and apply for an ICP filing. However, you must use the Alibaba Cloud app to upload documents. After you download and install the Alibaba Cloud app, use the app to scan the QR code on the web page for uploading documents on your PC. You do not need to log on to the Alibaba Cloud app to perform this operation. We recommend that you create an Alibaba Cloud account on the Alibaba Cloud China site (aliyun.com) to apply for an ICP filing and manage ICP filing information.

• If the entity leader of the ICP filing application is not a resident from the Chinese mainland, the website administrator must perform facial recognition for identity verification. Under special circumstances, the system prompts the entity leader and the website administrator to perform facial recognition for identity verification.

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  In specific cases, the system prompts the legal representative to perform facial recognition. Complete the steps as prompted.

• You must use an Alibaba Cloud account that is created on the Alibaba Cloud China site (aliyun.com) to log on to the Alibaba Cloud app. Do not use an Alibaba Cloud account that is created on the Alibaba Cloud international site (alibabacloud.com). We recommend that you create an Alibaba Cloud account on the Alibaba Cloud China site (aliyun.com) to apply for an ICP filing on the Alibaba Cloud app.

• If an enterprise registered outside the Chinese mainland has a branch registered in the Chinese mainland, the enterprise can apply for an ICP filing by using the registration certificate of its branch. If an enterprise registered outside the Chinese mainland does not have a branch registered in the Chinese mainland, the enterprise must apply to the Administration for Industry and Commerce in the usual place of residence for a Registration Certificate of Resident Representative Office of Foreign Enterprises and use it as a business license to apply for an ICP filing.

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  If an enterprise registered outside the Chinese mainland does not have a branch registered in the Chinese mainland but has an office established, the enterprise can apply to the Administration for Industry and Commerce in the name of this office for a Registration Certificate of Resident Representative Office of Foreign Enterprises and use it as a business license to apply for an ICP filing. Communications administrations in specific provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities allow enterprises to apply for an ICP filing in the name of offices. However, enterprises cannot apply for commercial ICP licenses in this way.

• When an enterprise registered outside the Chinese mainland submits an ICP filing application in the Alibaba Cloud ICP Filing system, the province or city where the application is submitted must be the same as that registered in the registration certificate of the enterprise.

• The MIIT checks whether the website services, instance location, and access method in your ICP filing information meet the requirements. We recommend that you verify your ICP filing information to ensure that it meets the requirements before you apply for an ICP filing. For more information, see Check the instance for ICP filing and access information.

Before you built a website to provide services for external systems, you must prepare the instance and access information, website information, and entity information, as shown in the following figure. The following section describes the requirements for ICP filings in different scenarios:

• Websites hosted on instances that reside in the Chinese mainland require an ICP filing, whereas websites hosted on instances that reside outside the Chinese mainland do not.

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  If a website provides services to Chinese mainland, a Public Security Bureau (PSB) filing is required. For more information, see the PSB Filing FAQs topic in the ICP filing documentation on the Alibaba Cloud China site (aliyun.com).

• The MIIT reviews the following information about a website:

  • Instance and access information

    The MIIT checks whether the instance location and access method in your ICP filing information meet the requirements. We recommend that you verify your ICP filing information to ensure that it meets the requirements before you apply for an ICP filing. For more information, see Check the instance for ICP filing and access information.

  • Website information

    The MIIT checks whether the name and content of the website meet compliance requirements and whether the website administrator exists.

  • Entity information

    The MIIT checks whether the entity of your website exists and meets compliance requirements. If an enterprise registered outside the Chinese mainland has a branch registered in the Chinese mainland, the enterprise can apply for an ICP filing by using the registration certificate of its branch. If an enterprise registered outside the Chinese mainland does not have a branch registered in the Chinese mainland, the enterprise must apply to the Administration for Industry and Commerce in the usual place of residence for a Registration Certificate of Resident Representative Office of Foreign Enterprises and use it as a business license to apply for an ICP filing.

• To use Alibaba Cloud Content Delivery Network (CDN) to accelerate content delivery in the Chinese mainland or global regions, you must apply for an ICP filing for your domain name for CDN. For more information, see Use Alibaba Cloud CDN.

• To use Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS) and Server Load Balancer (SLB) instances deployed in the Chinese mainland, you must pass the ECS instance verification. After an ICP filing is obtained, resolve the domain name to the public IP address of your SLB instance.