EDGAR 10-K Filing

Company CIK: 1421819
Filing Year: 2022
Filename: 1421819_10-K_2022_0001683168-22-002736.json

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ITEM 1. BUSINESS
ITEM 1. DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS.
We were incorporated under the laws of the State of Nevada on June 15, 2006, as Jupiter Resources, Inc. Our name was changed to Rineon Group, Inc. on April 30, 2009, and AS Capital, Inc. on October 1, 2018. On August 6, 2020, we consummated a share exchange transaction with the shareholders of HanJiao International Holding Limited, its subsidiaries and variable interest entity, Beijing VIE Technology Co., Ltd. (“Beijing VIE”). As a result of the share exchange transaction, we entered into the business of providing health and wellness related products through our e-commerce platform to the middle-aged and elderly populations in the People’s Republic of China (“China” or the “PRC”) through our variable interest entity, Beijing VIE. On October 20, 2020, we changed our name to Hanjiao Group, Inc. The shares of our common stock are currently quoted under the symbol “HJGP.”
Beijing VIE, previously known as Beijing VIE Culture Media Co. Ltd., a variable interest entity that we control through contractual arrangements, was formed in Beijing, China, on March 27, 2007. Initially, Beijing VIE focused on the provision of services in paper media, publication of magazines and books, and investment in media businesses. Due to the downturn of the paper media industry and the rise of the elderly healthcare services industry, in 2013 Beijing VIE shifted its business focus to the provision of healthcare related products through its e-commerce platform to the middle-aged and elderly segments in the PRC.
In 2016, Beijing VIE expanded its e-commerce operations and introduced its “Fozgo” branded products via its online to offline (O2O) marketplace. The O2O platform integrates its e-commerce platform with physical outlets to connect consumers and merchants in a dynamic marketplace. Its platform not only offers users the convenience of making online purchases, but also provides users the possibility to purchase and receive products at offline service centers. Currently, Beijing VIE’s core product categories include nutritional supplements, cosmetics, smart home products (such as smart watches) and home appliances (such as water filters and air purifiers). Beijing VIE has developed several branch offices with outlets across the PRC with approximately 163,000 users. In 2018 and 2021, Beijing VIE was granted hi-tech enterprise status in the PRC and in 2021, it was identified as Zhongguancun High-tech Enterprise in Beijing.
Beijing VIE owns a 44% equity interest in Rongcheng Tianrun Taxus Co., Ltd. (“Rongcheng Tianrun”), a PRC company. Rongcheng Tianrun is engaged primarily in the cultivation and marketing of Taxus, a type of medicinal plant.
Our principal executive offices are located at Room 119, No.778 Tanghekou Street, Tanghekou Town, Huairou District, Beijing and our telephone number is +86-10-63622901. At present, enterprises in Huairou District can enjoy the best tax preferential policies in Beijing. We currently operate 10 branches and approximately 200 service centers, serving approximately 163,000 users throughout the PRC. We maintain an Internet website at www.hanjiaoguoji.com. The information contained in, or accessible from, our website is not a part of this Annual Report.
History
We were incorporated on June 15, 2006 under the laws of the State of Nevada as Jupiter Resources, Inc with 75,000,000 shares of common stock and no other classes of stock authorized. On March 27, 2007, we entered into an agreement with Ms. Helen Louise Robinson of Vernon, British Columbia, whereby she agreed to sell to us one mineral claim located approximately 30 kilometers northwest of Vernon, British Columbia in an area having the potential to contain silver or copper mineralization or deposits. In order to acquire a 100% interest in this claim, we paid $7,500 to Ms. Robinson. However, we were unable to keep the mineral claim in good standing due to lack of funding and our interest in it lapsed.
On March 25, 2009, the Company’s articles of incorporation were amended to authorize an addition of 10 million preferred shares making a total of 85,000,000 shares authorized (75 million common stock, 10 million preferred stock).
On March 30, 2009, Jupiter entered into a binding letter of intent with NatProv Holdings, Inc., a British Virgin Islands corporation (“Natprov”). Pursuant to the terms of the letter of intent, Natprov and the Company were to commence the negotiation and preparation of a definitive share exchange agreement which contained customary representations, warranties and indemnities as agreed upon by Natprov, the Company and the shareholders of Natprov, whereby the Company, Natprov and the shareholders of Natprov were to complete a share exchange transaction (the “Transaction”) on or before May 26, 2009, subject to certain conditions precedent to the closing of the Transaction.
On April 30, 2009, the Company filed an amendment to change the name of the corporation to Rineon Group, Inc.
On May 01, 2009, we filed a Certificate of Designation to designate 36,000 shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, out of the 10 million shares of preferred stock. These shares had no votes for matters brought before the common shareholders, only with matters regarding the Series A shares where they will be the only voters. They can convert into common but cannot at any time convert to hold more than 4.95% of the issued and outstanding common shares of the Company.
On May 14, 2009, we entered into a preferred stock purchase agreement dated as of April 30, 2009 (the “Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement”) under which the Company sold an aggregate of 36,000 shares of its Series A convertible preferred stock (the “Series A Preferred Stock”) to Intigy Absolute Return Ltd., a British Virgin Islands corporation (“Intigy”), for a purchase price of $36,000,000, or $1,000 per share of Series A $0.001 Par Value Preferred Stock. In addition, pursuant to the terms of the stock purchase agreement dated as of May 14, 2009, the Company agreed to acquire 1,985,834 shares of Amalphis Group, Inc., (“Amalphis”) from Natprov for a total consideration of $36,000,000. Of the 2,437,500 shares of Amalphis held by Natprov, 1,985,834 were converted into Class A Preferred non-voting shares, which were then assigned by Natprov to the Company. As a result, Natprov owned 451,666 Common Shares of Amalphis, representing 100% of the voting shares of Amalphis, and the Company owned 1,985,834 of Amalphis’ Class A Preferred Shares which have the same rights and privileges as the common shares except that they have a liquidation preference and no voting rights. Amalphis’ Class A Preferred Shares were not convertible into Common Shares.
The transactions consummated as set forth above resulted in a change of control of the Company. In connection with such change in control, on May 14, 2009, the board of directors of the Company authorized a change in the fiscal year end of the Company from May 31 to December 31.
Amalphis was formed in July 2008 as a British Virgin Islands (BVI) Business Company. Amalphis, through its wholly owned subsidiary Allied Provident, Inc. (“API”), offered customized reinsurance products in markets where traditional reinsurance alternatives are limited. In addition, Amalphis was formed to directly sell a variety of property and casualty insurance products to businesses around the world. In September 2008, Amalphis acquired API, an entity that issues customized reinsurance to a United States insurance carrier that offers automotive insurance coverage to drivers who are unable to obtain insurance from standard carriers. API was formed in Barbados on November 9, 2007 by Natprov, a British Virgin Islands corporation.
There was no business activity between the filing of the Form 15 on November 10, 2010, and prior to August 9, 2018. The Company had Exchange Act disclosure requirements from January 11, 2008 to November 10, 2010. The Company has no knowledge or records related to the assets referenced above and therefor there is some level of uncertainty in the above descriptions.
Prior management of the Company was unresponsive to shareholders and had refused to respond to requests to meet statutory requirements to get current with the secretary of state and with the required filings of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”).
On August 9, 2018, XTC, Inc. was appointed to serve as the custodian of a shareholder filed action with the Eighth Judicial District Court in Clark County, Nevada and was instructed to revive the Company. XTC, Inc. was a shareholder of record as shown in the court documents (500 shares) attached as Exhibit 99.1 to this Annual Report. XTC acquired its 500 common shares on June 14, 2018 in the open market at a price of $0.05 per share.
Enclosed as Exhibit 99.1 hereto are the entire court records, from filing to closing documents.
On September 25, 2018, the Company filed a Certificate of Designation whereby the following preferred shares were designated the Company and the rights, privileges and designations of the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock were amended and restated.
· The number of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock was increased from 36,000 to 1,000,000.
· 3,000,000 Series B Convertible Preferred Stock were created with no voting rights, and conversion rights of 1000:1, with the restriction that holders cannot convert to hold more the 4.95% of issued and outstanding common stock.
· 1,000,000 Series C Convertible Preferred Stock were created. (each Series C shall have 100,000 vote per share, with 1:1 conversion rights.
On September 25, 2018, the Company issued 964,000 shares of Series A Convertible Preferred shares to XRC, LLC at $0.001 per share and 1,000,000 shares of Series C Convertible Preferred shares at $0.001 per share to XRC, LLC, a company controlled by Chris Lotito, in exchange for paying the costs to revive the company with the State of Nevada, giving it voting control.
On September 28, 2018, a shareholders meeting was held wherein the shareholders gave the board authority to reorganize the Company, including making a possible name change, and/or engaging in a reverse stock split. In addition, the Series A shareholders voted to approve a reverse split of 1 preferred share for each 1,000 shares outstanding of the Series A Convertible Preferred and to authorize a new designation.
On October 1, 2018, the Company made filings with the Nevada Secretary of State to change our name to “AS Capital, Inc.” and to exercise a 10-to-1 reverse stock split for the common stock and a 1,000 to 1 reverse of the Series A Convertible Preferred, with conversion rights of 1 common share for every 12,000 shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock held. As a result, the number of issued and outstanding Series A Convertible Preferred Stock was reduced to 1,000 shares.
On December 6, 2018, the Court granted an Order discharging the custodian and approved all actions taken by the custodian.
Change in Control
On June 4, 2019, AS Capital, Inc., a Nevada corporation, XRC, LLC, a Colorado limited liability company (“XRC”) and Gao Xue Ran (“Purchaser”) entered into a Stock Purchase Agreement (the “SPA”), pursuant to which Purchaser agreed to purchase from XRC 11,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company and 964 shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock Preferred Stock of the Company (collectively, the “Shares”), for aggregate consideration of Four Hundred and Ten Thousand Dollars ($410,000) in accordance with the terms and conditions of the SPA. XRC is the controlling shareholder of the Company. On June 13, 2019, and in anticipation of the sales transaction with Ms. Gao, the Company assigned its line of credit and the current balance due thereunder, including all outstanding principal and accrued interest, to XRC in consideration of 10,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company. At the time of the transfer, $48,595 was due under the line of credit. At the same time XRC converted its 1,000,000 shares of Series C Convertible Preferred Stock into 1,000,000 shares of common stock. Chris Lotito was the managing member of XRC.
The acquisition of the Shares consummated on July 18, 2019, and the Shares were ultimately purchased by the following three individuals using their own personal funds:
Name
No. of Shares
Percentage of Issued and Outstanding
Consideration Paid
Gao Xue Ran
8,581,063 of Common Stock;
964 shares of Series A Preferred Stock
76.61%
$ 319,840
Zhang Yan Hua
1,935,633 of Common Stock
17.28%
$ 72,146
Cheung Kwok Chiu Kris
483,304 of Common Stock
4.31%
$ 18,014
Total
11,000,000 of Common Stock;
964 shares of Series A Preferred Stock
100%
Upon the consummation of the sale of the Shares, Chris Lotito, the Chief Executive Officer and sole director, and John Karatzaferis, the President, resigned from all of their positions with the Company, effective July 18, 2019. Their resignations were not due to any dispute or disagreement with the Company on any matter relating to the Company’s operations, policies or practices.
Acquisition of HanJiao International Holding Limited (“HJ”)
On August 6, 2020, we consummated the acquisition of one hundred shares of HJ, representing 100% of the issued and outstanding stock of HJ, by issuing 86,000,000 shares of the common stock of the Company. HJ is a holding company that, through its subsidiaries and Beijing VIE, its variable interest entity, is engaged in the business of selling healthcare and other related products to the middle-aged and elderly market segments in the PRC through its internet platform and offline service centers. HJ’s consolidated business is conducted through Beijing VIE, a variable interest entity formed in Beijing, China on March 27, 2007.
Corporate Structure
Our current corporate structure is below:
(1) HanJiao International Holding Limited. (“HJ” or “HanJiao”) was incorporated on July 5, 2018 in the British Virgin Islands.
(2) LuJi Technology International Holding Limited (“Luji Technology”) was incorporated on July 5, 2018 in the British Virgin Islands and is wholly owned by HJ.
(3) Inooka Holding Ltd. was established on July 18, 2018 in Hong Kong and is wholly owned by Luji Technology.
(4) Beijing Hanze Management Consulting Co., Ltd. (previously known as Beijing Hanze Management Consulting Co., Ltd.), a wholly foreign-owned enterprise (“WFOE”) was established in China on October 11, 2018 and it is a wholly owned subsidiary of Inooka. Beijing Hanze provides consulting and technical services to Beijing Yingjun Technology Co., Ltd. (previously known as Beijing Luji Technology Co., Ltd., currently “Beijing VIE”). Beijing VIE established Guoyi Investment Fund Management (Beijing) Co., Ltd. (“Beijing Guoyi”) with registered capital of RMB 50 million (approximately US$973,000) on February 19, 2016.
(5) Beijing VIE was incorporated in China on March 27, 2007, and is engaged in the business of selling goods in China. Beijing Hanze controls Beijing VIE via various variable interest contractual arrangements (“VIE agreements”) to realize its economic benefits. Currently, the shareholders of Beijing VIE are Ms. Tian Xiangyang, Mr. Tian Zhihai, Mr. Liu Zexian, Ms. Gao Xuewei and Ms. Li Chunduo, together the “Beijing VIE Shareholders”.
(6) Guoyi Investment Fund Management (Beijing) Co., Ltd. (“Beijing Guoyi”) was formed on February 19, 2016, and is wholly owned by Beijing VIE. Beijing Guoyi has no business activity as of the date of this Annual Report.
(7) On March 15, 2019, Beijing VIE executed a Share Purchase Agreement with Rongcheng Health Group Co., Ltd. and acquired a 44% equity interest in Rongcheng Tianrun Taxus Co., Ltd. (“Rongcheng Tianrun”) for RMB 79,830,000 (approximately $12.3 million). Rongcheng Tianrun is organized and registered in the PRC, and it is engaged primarily in the cultivation and marketing of Taxus, a type of medicinal plant.
Contractual Agreements between Beijing Hanze, Beijing VIE and Beijing VIE Shareholders
We do not have a direct equity ownership interest in Beijing VIE but rely on a series of contractual arrangements, the variable interest agreements (“VIE Agreements”), to control and receive the economic benefits of Beijing VIE’s business. We rely on contractual arrangements with our variable interest entity to operate our E-commerce business in the PRC and other businesses in which foreign investment is restricted or prohibited.
Beijing Hanze, Beijing VIE, and its shareholders entered into the VIE Agreements on May 15, 2019. The VIE agreements are designed to provide Beijing Hanze with the power, rights and obligations equivalent in all material respects to those it would possess as the sole equity holder of Beijing VIE, including absolute control rights and the rights to the assets, property and revenue of Beijing VIE. Each of the VIE Agreements is described in detail below.
Exclusive Consulting and Services Agreement
Pursuant to the Exclusive Consulting and Service Agreement signed on May 15, 2019, between Beijing Hanze and Beijing VIE, as amended by that certain Supplement to the Exclusive Consulting and Sevice Agreement, dated March 31, 2022, Beijing Hanze agrees to provide various services exclusively to Beijing VIE including development and research services for business-related software, pre-job and on-the-job training services, technology development and transfer services, public relations services, market research and consulting services, short and medium-term market development and planning services, various technical support services, consulting services related to business compliance, organization and planning services related to marketing and membership activities. For services rendered to Beijing VIE by Beijing Hanze under this agreement, Beijing Hanze is entitled to collect 100% of the net income of Beijing VIE.
The Exclusive Consulting and Services Agreement shall remain in effect for ten years from the date of signing unless it is terminated by Beijing Hanze in advance or upon the mutual agreement of both parties. Unless otherwise required by law, Beijing VIE shall not have any right to terminate the agreement. Prior to the termination of this agreement, the parties may extend the term of this agreement in accordance with the requirements of Beijing Hanze.
The foregoing descriptions of the Exclusive Consulting and Services Agreement and the Supplement to the Exclusive Consulting and Services Agreement are qualified in their entirety by reference to the Consulting and Services Agreement and the Supplement to the Exclusive Consulting and Services Agreement, an English translation of which are filed as Exhibits 10.1 and 10.2, respectively, to this Annual Report and incorporated herein by reference.
Business Operation Agreement
Pursuant to the Business Operation Agreement signed on May 15, 2019, by and among the Beijing VIE Shareholders, Beijing VIE and Beijing Hanze. Beijing VIE agrees not to conduct any transactions that may materially affect its assets, business, personnel, obligations, rights or company operations, without the prior written consent of Beijing Hanze. Beijing Hanze agrees to provide advice to Beijing VIE from time to time regarding the appointment and dismissal of employees, daily management and financial management systems. Beijing VIE and Beijing VIE Shareholders also agreed to appoint designees of Beijing Hanze to serve as its Board of directors and on the senior management team of the Beijing VIE. In connection with this agreement, the Beijing VIE Shareholders executed a Power of Attorney at Annex 1 of the Business Operation Agreement in which the Beijing VIE shareholders shall irrevocably authorize the designated personnel of Beijing Hanze to exercise their shareholders’ rights on their behalf, including voting rights at the shareholders’ meeting in the name of the shareholders. The Beijing VIE Shareholders further agree that they will replace the person authorized in the above Power of Attorney at any time upon Beijing Hanze’s request. The Business Operation Agreement shall remain in effect for ten years from the date of signing unless earlier terminated by Beijing Hanze by delivering 30 days prior written notice or upon the mutual agreement of all parties. Beijing VIE and the Beijing VIE Shareholders do not have the right to terminate the agreement unilaterally. Upon the termination of any agreement between Beijing Hanze and Beijing VIE, Beijing Hanze shall be entitled to terminate all agreements between such parties.
The foregoing description of the Business Operation Agreement is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Business Operation Agreement, an English translation of which is filed as Exhibit 10.3 to this Annual Report and incorporated herein by reference.
Equity Disposal Agreement
Pursuant to the Equity Disposal Agreement signed on May 15, 2019, by and among the Beijing VIE Shareholders, Beijing VIE and Beijing Hanze, the Beijing VIE Shareholders granted to Beijing Hanze an exclusive option right to purchase all of their equity interests in Beijing VIE to secure the execution of the Equity Pledge Agreement in which the details are set out below. Under the terms of this agreement, Beijing Hanze has an exclusive right to purchase, to the extent permitted under the PRC law, at any time, all or any part of the equity interests of the Beijing VIE Shareholders in Beijing VIE or an option to transfer the equity interests in Beijing VIE to any third party designated by Beijing Hanze. The option price shall be the minimum permitted by the laws and regulations of the PRC. The Equity Disposal Agreement has a term of ten years from the date of signing, and it may be renewed at Beijing Hanze’s discretion.
The foregoing description of the Equity Disposal Agreement is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Equity Disposal Agreement, an English translation of which is filed as Exhibit 10.4 to this Annual Report and incorporated herein by reference.
Equity Pledge Agreement
Pursuant to the Equity Pledge Agreement signed on May 15, 2019, by and among the Beijing VIE Shareholders and Beijing Hanze, the Beijing VIE Shareholders pledged all of their equity interests in Beijing VIE to Beijing Hanze to guarantee the performance of Beijing VIE’s obligations under the Exclusive Consulting and Services Agreement, the Equity Disposal Agreement and the Business Operation Agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, in the event that Beijing VIE or its shareholders breach their respective contractual obligations under the Exclusive Consulting and Services Agreement, the Equity Disposal Agreement and the Business Operation Agreement, or upon occurrence of any event of default as set forth in the Equity Pledge Agreement, Beijing Hanze shall be entitled to exercise its rights under this agreement, subject to certain cure periods. The Beijing VIE Shareholders further agree not to dispose of the pledged equity interests or take any actions that would prejudice Beijing Hanze’s interest.
The Equity Pledge Agreement shall be effective until Beijing VIE and the Beijing VIE Shareholders have performed all of their obligations under the Exclusive Consulting and Services Agreement, the Equity Disposal Agreement and the Business Operations Agreement and the written approval of Beijing Hanze has been obtained.
The foregoing description of the Equity Pledge Agreement is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Equity Pledge Agreement, an English translation of which is filed as Exhibit 10.5 to this Annual Report and incorporated herein by reference.
Agency Agreement
Pursuant to the Agency Agreement signed on May 15, 2019, among the Beijing VIE Shareholders and Beijing Hanze, the Beijing VIE Shareholders granted Beijing Hanze an irrevocable license for the longest period permitted under law the right to exercise the voting rights of the Beijing VIE Shareholders in accordance with the laws of the PRC and the Articles of Association of Beijing VIE. During the term of this Agreement, none of the Beijing VIE Shareholders shall be entitled to transfer its interest in Beijing VIE to any third party other than entities or individuals designated by Beijing Hanze. This Agency Agreement shall be irrevocable and continuously valid from the date of execution of this Agency Agreement, and it can be terminated at Beijing Hanze’s discretion.
The foregoing description of the Agency Agreement is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Agency Agreement, an English translation of which is filed as Exhibit 10.6 to this Annual Report and incorporated herein by reference.
Market Overview
Home Appliances: Water Purifiers and Air Purifiers
COVID-19 had an adverse impact on the water purifier market in China. According to Aoweiyun’s (“AVC)” 2021 report, the size of the water purifier market was approximately RMB 22.7 billion (approximately USD 3.6 billion) in 2021, representing a year-on-year decrease of 5.1%, and the sales will be 9.286 million units, down 8.7% year on year. The epidemic has also intensified consumers’ doubts regarding the safety of their water supply both from the tap and from bottled sources. Notwithstanding the immediate adverse impact of COVID-19 on the market, increased consumer concern regarding water safety together with normal replacement demand is expected to fuel the demand for water purifiers over the next 1-2 years.
According to AVC, the offline air purifier market experienced a significant decline during the pandemic’s most severe periods, which decline was slightly offset by a spike in online sales. However, with the improvement in the management of the pandemic together with other factors, online sales of air purifiers in China gradually returned to their pre-pandemic levels while offline sales remained down. In 2021, the annual sales volume of the air purifier market was approximately RMB 6.59 billion (approximately USD1.03 billion), down 5% year-on-year, with a sales volume of approximately 3.83 million units, down 2% year-on-year. However, we believe that increased consumer focus on health due to the epidemic situation together with normal replacement demand will result in an increased demand for air purifiers and fuel the recovery of the air purifier market.
Health and Wellness Market
According to the "2016-2021 China Nutrition and Health Products Industry Market Analysis and Investment Prospects Consulting Report" issued by the China Business Industry Research Institute, China’s nutrition and health and wellness industry is expected to maintain a growth trend over the next few years with 2020 sales revenue in China reaching approximately RMB 480.3 billion (approximately USD 74 billion). Chinese consumers devote approximately 0.07% of their total expenditure on health and wellness products, as compared to consumers in Europe and the United States who spend an average of 25% of total expenditure. Health and wellness related expenditures of urban and rural residents in mainland China have been growing rapidly, much higher than the growth rate of developed countries. We believe that the health and wellness will continue to grow in the near future.
Cosmetics Market
According to iMedia Research, cosmetics consumption was not significantly affected by the epidemic. The global cosmetics market, especially China's, keeps growing, and the size of China's cosmetics market is expected to increase to RMB 512.5 billion (approximately USD 80.4 billion) by 2023.
Imedia analysts believe that according to this situation, China will be an important production and market of the world cosmetics industry in the future.
Smartwatch Market
According to IMedia Research, smartwatches accounted for 46.5 percent of total watch consumption in 2021, a relatively large proportion.
Our first smartwatch product is smart watches, which are pre-loaded with applications (such as an exercise application, application that monitors heart rates, and a location application) that we believe are beneficial to our target market segments. Over the next twelve to eighteen months, and under the right economic terms and conditions, we hope to partner with third parties to introduce to our platform additional smart products that focus on the health and wellness of the elderly population.
Products
We are engaged in the business of selling health and wellness and other related products to the middle-aged and elderly market segments in China. Our core product categories include nutritional supplements, cosmetics, smart home products (such as smart watches) and home appliances (such as water filters and air purifiers). We also sell our own branded “Fozgo” products and third-party products through our website. We are focused on creating our national sales network and establishing our marketing channels to capitalize on our brand advantages.
A majority of the products sold since 2019 were “Fozgo” branded nutrition supplements. During the twelve months ended December 31, 2021, revenues were mainly attributable to sales of cosmetics and health and wellness products, representing 43.7% and 38.8%, respectively. During the 12 months ended December 31, 2020, revenues were mainly attributable to sales of cosmetics, health and wellness products and smart watches, representing 34.3%, 28%, and 19.2% of revenues, respectively.
Platform Users
Beijing VIE has approximately 162,100 users as of March 30, 2022. During the year ended December 31, 2021, the number of new users increased by approximately 2,600 users, or 1.6%, from approximately 159,500 users for the year ended December 31, 2020. The users are from over 27 provinces and cities across the PRC.
Sales and Marketing
We create awareness of our brand and products directly through several channels: conferences and events marketing, social media platforms, and cross collaboration with business partners.
· Conference and events marketing: We have historically relied on live conferences and events as the main driver for marketing and selling our products. During the COVID-19 pandemic, we expanded into holding virtual conferences and events. We anticipate continuing our virtual conference and marketing events in the foreseeable future, even as China’s economy begins recovering from the effects of the pandemic.
· Social Media Platforms: We promote our products on various social media platforms such as WeChat, etc.
· Business Partners: We actively seek businesses for brand partnerships to cross-promote our brand, products.
· Referral and Resellers: We actively encourage the development of a community of resellers and outlets that will be incentivized to sell our products. We expect to rely on conferences and events to develop new resellers and new outlets in new provinces across the PRC. We also plan to attract more new users by using WeChat QR code and the Internet.
Strategy for Growth
The outbreak of COVID-19 that started in late January 2020 in the PRC had negatively affected our business. In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 as a pandemic and has resulted in quarantines, travel restrictions, and the temporary closure of stores and business facilities in China and the U.S. in the subsequent months. Given the rapidly expanding nature of the COVID-19 pandemic, and because substantially all of the Company’s business operations and its workforce are concentrated in China, the Company’s business, results of operations, and financial condition for 2020 were adversely affected. In our consolidated financial statements for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, we have included a note about our ability to continue as a going concern due to, among other factors, significant decline in our operating cash flows and significant operating losses in 2020 and 2021 as a result of COVID-19.
Management believes that COVID-19 could continue to have a material impact on our financial results during the first half of 2022, and could affect our ability to realize certain assets. To mitigate the overall financial impact of COVID-19 on the Company’s business, management has worked closely with our service centers to enhance our marketing activities designed to promote awareness of our product offerings and generate sales in the second, third and fourth quarters of 2022. We have also introduced cost containment and staff reduction measures, decreasing our headcount from 70 employees at the beginning of 2020 to 34 as of December 31, 2021. Assuming a significant easing of COVID related restrictive measures, and our ability to recruit, attract and retain key sales members, we believe that we could generate sufficient cashflow over the next 12 months to implement our revised business plan.
We are focused on promoting our O2O cloud platform to middle-aged and elderly market segments in the PRC. Our strategies include:
1. Increasing the number of offline service outlets and stores, enhancing the user experience in the O2O business model, and increasing branches across China. We operate 10 branches and 202 service centers throughout the PRC as of March 30, 2022. Assuming a significant easing of COVID related restrictive measures and our ability to recruit, attract and retain key sales members during this time, in 2022 and 2023, we hope to increase our reach as set forth below.
Years
Branches
Service Centers
Total Users
162,100
180,000
2.
Focus on building “Yiyuan Health care”, a home-based care service cloud platform for middle-aged and elderly people.
In order to better meet the health and elderly care of middle-aged and elderly users, we plan to expand our business scope from selling products to health care services (focusing on home care services) in the next 12 months.
Relying on the community, we plan to rapidly expand offline service outlets in China through the combination of online and offline, mainly providing home care services for middle-aged and elderly disabled and semi-disabled community elderly care, including home care, health physiotherapy, nutritional catering, remote care, etc.
We will also cooperate with many nursing homes, community health care stations, health care bases, and hospitals to provide timely, thoughtful and all-round health and elderly care services for the elderly.
By 2023, we intend to provide more individualized services to our targeted group to include the following:
1. Fozgo online mall: Promote our products and services to its targeted group through our O2O online mall and outlets.
2. Elderly care institution services: carry out strategic cooperation with national elder care institutions to provide elder care institution-style services in China.
3. Medical examination institutions: strategically cooperate with different medical examination institutions to promote health checkups with full medical examinations at reasonable prices to our users.
4. Health care station services: Relying on the community, establish and integrate offline health care stations, and introduce community home care services. Users place orders on our platform and enjoy professional offline home health services. For example: foot washing, massage, scraping, cupping and other traditional Chinese medicine physiotherapy care services.
5. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) physiotherapy services: In the future, we plan to reach strategic cooperation agreements with TCM medical institutions. TCM physicians can take orders online and provide offline door-to-door services for middle-aged and elderly customers.
Vendors
We partner with various merchants and manufacturers across the PRC to identify suitable products for sale to our users in the PRC. During the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, the major vendors that accounted more than 10% of our total purchases are as follow:
Year ended
December 31, 2021
US$ %
Shandong Kangqi Wood Industry Co., Ltd 130,977 42.1
Wuyishan Zuoyun Ecological Tea Co., Ltd 115,516 37.13
Hainan shanshiyuan Health Management Co., Ltd 51,647 16.60
Year ended
December 31, 2020
US$
%
Baoqingmeilai Modern Agriculture Service Co. Ltd.
6,130,000
79.9
Shandong Kangqi Wood Industry Co. Ltd.
996,000
12.9
Near-Term Requirements for Additional Capital
For the immediate future, we intend to finance our business and strategic plans including possible corporate transactions such as asset or business acquisitions through sales of our securities to existing shareholders, management or employees as well as loans from existing shareholders or financial institutions. There can be no assurance that we will be able to raise such additional capital resources on satisfactory terms, if at all, that that we will be successful in consummating a business acquisition or that any acquired business will be successful after acquisition. While our operating performance in 2021 was negatively impacted by COVID-19, we believe our business will begin to stabilize in the second half of 2022, and that our current cash and other sources of liquidity discussed above will be adequate to support operations for at least the next 12 months. We anticipate continuing to rely on equity sales of our common shares and shareholder loans in order to continue to fund our business operations. Issuances of additional shares will result in dilution to our existing shareholders. There is no assurance that we will achieve any additional sales of our equity securities or arrange for debt or other financing to fund our plan of operations.
Intellectual Property
We rely on, trade secrets, copyrights, know-how, trademarks, license agreements and contractual provisions to establish our intellectual property rights and protect the “Fozgo” brand of Beijing VIE. These legal means, however, afford only limited protection and may not adequately protect our rights. Litigation may be necessary in the future to enforce our intellectual property rights, protect our trade secrets or determine the validity and scope of the proprietary rights of others. Litigation could result in substantial costs and diversion of resources and management attention. Any unauthorized disclosure or use of our intellectual property could increase our costs and harm our operating results.
The laws of the PRC may not protect our brand and intellectual property to the same extent as U.S. laws, if at all. We may be unable to fully protect our intellectual property rights in our country. Further, companies in the internet, social media technology and other industries may own large numbers of patents, copyrights and trademarks and may frequently request license agreements, threaten litigation or file suit against us based on allegations of infringement or other violations of their intellectual property rights.
We intend to seek the widest possible protection for significant product and process developments in our major markets through a combination of trade secrets, trademarks, copyrights and patents, if applicable. We anticipate that the form of protection will vary depending upon the level of protection afforded by the particular jurisdiction. Initially, we expect that our revenue will be derived principally from our operations in the PRC where intellectual property protection may be more limited and difficult to enforce. In such instances, we may seek protection of our intellectual property through measures taken to increase the confidentiality of our findings.
We intend to register trademarks as a means of protecting the brand names of our companies and products. We intend to protect our trademarks against infringement and also seek protection of registered design and product patents.
We rely on trade secrets and unpatentable know-how that we seek to protect, in part, by confidentiality agreements. We expect that, where applicable, we will require our employees to execute confidentiality agreements upon the commencement of employment with us. We expect these agreements to provide that all confidential information developed or made known to the individual during the course of the individual’s relationship with us is to be kept confidential and not disclosed to third parties except in specific limited circumstances. The agreements will also provide that all inventions conceived by the individual while rendering services to us shall be assigned to us as the exclusive property of the Company. There can be no assurance, however, that all persons who we desire to sign such agreements will sign, or if they do, that these agreements will not be breached, that we would have adequate remedies for any breach, or that our trade secrets or unpatentable know-how will not otherwise become known or be independently developed by competitors.
Employees
As of March 30, 2022, we have the following employees:
Senior Management
Sales and Marketing
Merchant
Customer Services
Information System Technology
Administration / Finance / HR
Total
All of our employees are located in the PRC. None of our employees are members of a trade union. We believe that we maintain good relationships with our employees and have not experienced any strikes or shutdowns and have not been involved in any labor disputes.
According to the Social Insurance Law of the People’s Republic of China, we are required to make contributions to a pension fund, basic medical insurance, work injury insurance, unemployment insurance and maternity insurance for all of our eligible employees in the PRC. We are required to contribute a specified percentage of the participants’ relevant income based on their wage level. The total contributions were $93,916 and $79,100 for the years ended December 31, 2021, and 2020, respectively.
Moreover, according to the Regulations on Management of Housing Provident Fund, we are required to make a contribution to the housing provident fund for all of our eligible employees in the PRC based on a certain percentage of their relevant income.
GOVERNMENT AND INDUSTRY REGULATIONS
Our business is located in China and is subject to the laws and regulations of China governing businesses concerning, in particular labor, occupational safety and health, contracts, tort and intellectual property. Furthermore, we need to comply with the rules and regulations of China governing cybersecurity, privacy, data usage and regular terms of service applicable to our potential customers or clients, and foreign exchange regulations might limit our ability to convert foreign currency into Renminbi, acquire PRC companies, or make dividend payments to HJGP.
Regulations on Tax
PRC Corporate Income Tax
The PRC corporate income tax, or CIT, is calculated based on the taxable income determined under the applicable CIT Law and its implementation rules, which became effective on January 1, 2008 and amended on February 24, 2017 and December 29, 2018 respectively. The CIT Law imposes a uniform corporate income tax rate of 25% on all resident enterprises in China, including foreign-invested enterprises.
Uncertainties exist with respect to how the CIT Law applies to the tax residence status of the Company and our offshore subsidiaries. Under the CIT Law, an enterprise established outside of China with a “de facto management body” within China is considered a “resident enterprise,” which means that it is treated in a manner similar to a Chinese enterprise for corporate income tax purposes. Although the implementation rules of the CIT Law define “de facto management body” as a managing body that exercises substantive and overall management and control over the production and business, personnel, accounting books and assets of an enterprise, the only official guidance for this definition currently available is set forth in Circular 82 issued by the State Administration of Taxation, which provides guidance on the determination of the tax residence status of a Chinese-controlled offshore incorporated enterprise, defined as an enterprise that is incorporated under the laws of a foreign country or territory and that has a PRC enterprise or enterprise group as its primary controlling shareholder. Although the Company does not have a PRC enterprise or enterprise group as our primary controlling shareholder and is therefore not a Chinese-controlled offshore incorporated enterprise within the meaning of Circular 82, in the absence of guidance specifically applicable to us, we have made reference to the guidance set forth in Circular 82 to evaluate the tax residence status of the Company and our subsidiaries organized outside the PRC.
According to Circular 82, a Chinese-controlled offshore incorporated enterprise will be regarded as a PRC tax resident by virtue of having a “de facto management body” in China and will be subject to PRC corporate income tax on its worldwide income only if all of the following criteria are met:
· the primary location of the day-to-day operational management is in the PRC;
· decisions relating to the enterprise’s financial and human resource matters are made or are subject to approval by organizations or personnel in the PRC;
· the enterprise’s primary assets, accounting books and records, company seals, and board and shareholders meeting minutes are located or maintained in the PRC; and
· 50% or more of voting board members or senior executives habitually reside in the PRC.
Our variable interest entity is a PRC resident enterprise for PRC tax purposes as defined above. We do not believe that our Hong Kong subsidiary or other affiliated entities located outside of China is a PRC resident enterprise. However, the tax resident status of an enterprise is subject to determination by the PRC tax authorities and uncertainties remain with respect to the interpretation of the term “de facto management body.” If the PRC tax authorities determine that we or any of our subsidiaries outside of China is a PRC resident enterprise for PRC enterprise income tax purposes, then we or such subsidiary could be subject to PRC tax at a rate of 25% on its world-wide income, as our entity in China has been deemed a high tech enterprise reducing the PRC income tax rate to 15%, in accordance with the provisions of the Chinese tax law, which would subject any income outside the PRC to this rate also, thereby reducing our net income. Furthermore, if the PRC tax authorities determine that we are a PRC resident enterprise for enterprise income tax purposes, gains realized on the sale or other disposition of our ordinary shares may be subject to PRC tax, at a rate of 10% in the case of non-PRC enterprises or 20% in the case of non-PRC individuals (in each case, subject to the provisions of any applicable tax treaty), if such gains are deemed to be from PRC sources. It is unclear whether non-PRC shareholders of our company would be able to claim the benefits of any tax treaties between their country of tax residence and the PRC in the event that we are treated as a PRC resident enterprise. Any such tax may reduce the returns on your investment in our common stock.
Value-Added Tax and Business Tax
Our variable interest entity is a PRC resident enterprise for PRC tax purposes as defined above. We do not believe that our Hong Kong subsidiary or other affiliated entities located outside of China is a PRC resident enterprise. However, the tax resident status of an enterprise is subject to determination by the PRC tax authorities and uncertainties remain with respect to the interpretation of the term “de facto management body.” If the PRC tax authorities determine that we or any of our subsidiaries outside of China is a PRC resident enterprise for PRC enterprise income tax purposes, then we or such subsidiary could be subject to PRC tax at a rate of 25% on its world-wide income, as our entity enterprise in China is an state high-tech enterprise, it is possible to be impose the 15% enterprise income tax on state high-tech enterprises in accordance with provisions of the Chinese tax law, thus materially reducing our net income. In addition, we will also be subject to PRC enterprise income tax reporting obligations. Furthermore, if the PRC tax authorities determine that we are a PRC resident enterprise for enterprise income tax purposes, gains realized on the sale or other disposition of our ordinary shares may be subject to PRC tax, at a rate of 10% in the case of non-PRC enterprises or 20% in the case of non-PRC individuals (in each case, subject to the provisions of any applicable tax treaty), if such gains are deemed to be from PRC sources. It is unclear whether non-PRC shareholders of our Company would be able to claim the benefits of any tax treaties between their country of tax residence and the PRC in the event that we are treated as a PRC resident enterprise. Any such tax may reduce the returns on your investment in our common stock.
Value-Added Tax
The Provisional Regulations of the PRC on Value-added Tax (“VAT”) were promulgated by the State Council on December 13, 1993 and came into effect on January 1, 1994 which were subsequently amended on November 10, 2008, February 6, 2016 and November 19, 2017. The Detailed Rules for the Implementation of the Provisional Regulations of the PRC on Value-added Tax (Revised in 2011) were promulgated by the Ministry of Finance and the State Administration of Taxation (“SAT”) on 28 October 2011 and came into effect on November 1, 2011 (collectively, the “VAT Law”). According to the VAT Law, all enterprises and individuals engaged in the sale of goods, the provision of processing, repair and replacement services, and the importation of goods within the territory of the PRC must pay value-added tax. Starting from April 1, 2019, the VAT rate for revenue generated from providing products was changed from 16% into 13%. VAT is reported as a deduction of revenue when incurred. Entities that are VAT general taxpayers are allowed to offset qualified input VAT paid to suppliers against their output VAT liabilities. Net VAT balance between input VAT and output VAT is recorded in taxes payable.
Regulations Relating to Foreign Exchange and Dividend Distribution
Foreign Exchange Regulations
The principal regulations governing foreign currency exchange in China are the Foreign Exchange Administration Regulations. Under the PRC foreign exchange regulations, payments of current account items, such as profit distributions and trade and service-related foreign exchange transactions, may be made in foreign currencies without prior approval from the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (“SAFE”) by complying with certain procedural requirements. By contrast, approval from or registration with appropriate government authorities is required where RMB is to be converted into foreign currency and remitted out of China to pay capital expenses such as the repayment of foreign currency-denominated loans or foreign currency is to be remitted into China under the capital account, such as a capital increase or foreign currency loans to PRC subsidiaries. Our operating currency is the RMB. the regulations affecting foreign exchange and dividend distributions as set forth herein.
In November 2012, SAFE promulgated the Circular of Further Improving and Adjusting Foreign Exchange Administration Policies on Foreign Direct Investment. Pursuant to this circular, the opening of various special purpose foreign exchange accounts, such as pre-establishment expense accounts, foreign exchange capital accounts and guarantee accounts, the reinvestment of RMB proceeds by foreign investors in the PRC, and remittance of foreign exchange profits and dividends by a foreign-invested enterprise to its foreign shareholders no longer require the approval or verification of SAFE, and multiple capital accounts for the same entity may be opened in different provinces, which was not possible previously. In addition, SAFE promulgated the Circular on Printing and Distributing the Provisions on Foreign Exchange Administration over Domestic Direct Investment by Foreign Investors and the Supporting Documents in May 2013, which specifies that the administration by SAFE or its local branches over direct investment by foreign investors in the PRC shall be conducted by way of registration and banks shall process foreign exchange business relating to the direct investment in the PRC based on the registration information provided by SAFE and its branches.
Additionally, pursuant to the Notice of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange on Further Simplifying and Improving the Direct Investment related Foreign Exchange Administration Policies (“SAFE Notice No. 13”), which was promulgated on February 13, 2015 and became effective on June 1, 2015, the foreign exchange registration in relation to foreign direct investment shall be directly reviewed and handled by qualified banks in accordance with SAFE Notice No. 13, and SAFE and its branches shall perform indirect regulation over the foreign exchange registration via qualified banks.
We typically do not need to use our offshore foreign currency to fund our China operations. In the event we need to do so, we may be required to apply to obtain the relevant approvals of, registration or filing with SAFE and other PRC government authorities as necessary.
On August 29, 2008, SAFE issued the Circular on the Relevant Operating Issues Concerning the Improvement of the Administration of the Payment and Settlement of Foreign Currency Capital of Foreign-Invested Enterprises, or SAFE Circular 142. Pursuant to SAFE Circular 142, RMB resulting from the settlement of foreign currency capital of a foreign-invested enterprise must be used within the business scope as approved by the applicable government authority and cannot be used for domestic equity investment, unless it is otherwise approved. Documents certifying the purposes of the settlement of foreign currency capital into RMB, including a business contract, must also be submitted for the settlement of the foreign currency. In addition, SAFE strengthened its oversight of the flow and use of RMB capital converted from foreign currency registered capital of a foreign-invested company. The use of such RMB capital may not be altered without SAFE’s approval, and such RMB capital may not be used to repay RMB loans if such loans have not been used. Violations of SAFE Circular 142 could result in severe monetary fines or penalties. We expect that our use of RMB funds have been, and will be, within the approved business scope of our PRC variable interest entity. There are no costs associated with applying for registration or approval of loans or capital contributions with or from relevant PRC governmental authorities, other than nominal processing charges. Under PRC laws and regulations, the PRC governmental authorities are required to process such approvals or registrations or deny our application within a prescribed time period, which is usually less than 90 days. The actual time taken, however, may be longer due to administrative delays. If we are required to obtain these registrations or approvals, we cannot assure you that we will be able to obtain these government registrations or approvals on a timely basis, if at all, with respect to our operations in China. If we fail to receive such registrations or approvals, our ability to use the proceeds from our funds to capitalize our China operations may be negatively affected, which could materially and adversely affect our liquidity and ability to fund and expand our business.
SAFE Circular 37
SAFE promulgated the Circular on Relevant Issues Concerning Foreign Exchange Control on Domestic Residents’ Offshore Investment and Financing and Roundtrip Investment through Special Purpose Vehicles, or SAFE Circular 37, on July 4, 2014, which replaced the former circular commonly known as “SAFE Circular 75” promulgated by SAFE on October 21, 2005. SAFE Circular 37 requires PRC residents to register with local branches of SAFE in connection with their direct establishment or indirect control of an offshore entity, for the purpose of overseas investment and financing, with such PRC residents’ legally owned assets or equity interests in domestic enterprises or offshore assets or interests, referred to in SAFE Circular 37 as a “special purpose vehicle.” SAFE Circular 37 further requires amendment to the registration in the event of any significant changes with respect to the special purpose vehicle, such as increase or decrease of capital contributed by PRC individuals, share transfer or exchange, merger, division or other material event. In the event that a PRC shareholder holding interests in a special purpose vehicle fails to fulfill the required SAFE registration, the PRC subsidiaries of that special purpose vehicle may be prohibited from making profit distributions to the offshore parent and from carrying out subsequent cross-border foreign exchange activities, and the special purpose vehicle may be restricted in its ability to contribute additional capital into its PRC subsidiary. Furthermore, failure to comply with the various SAFE registration requirements described above could result in liability under PRC law for evasion of foreign exchange controls. On February 13, 2015, SAFE Notice No. 13 was promulgated, pursuant to which the aforementioned registration shall be conducted with and handled by qualified banks.
We have notified substantial beneficial owners of our ordinary shares who we know are PRC residents of their filing obligation, and to the best of our knowledge, those shareholders whom we know are PRC residents have completed the registration or will carry out the registration as required under SAFE Circular 37. However, we may not be aware of the identities of all our beneficial owners who are PRC residents. In addition, we do not have control over our beneficial owners and cannot assure you that all of our PRC resident beneficial owners will comply with SAFE Circular 37. The failure of our beneficial owners who are PRC residents to register or amend their SAFE registrations in a timely manner pursuant to SAFE Circular 37 or the failure of future beneficial owners of our company who are PRC residents to comply with the registration procedures set forth in SAFE Circular 37 may subject such beneficial owners or our PRC subsidiaries to fines and legal sanctions. Failure to register or amend the registration may also limit our ability to contribute additional capital to our PRC subsidiaries or receive dividends or other distributions from our PRC subsidiaries or other proceeds from disposal of our PRC subsidiaries, or we may be penalized by SAFE.
Share Option Rules
Under the Administration Measures on Individual Foreign Exchange Control issued by the PBOC on December 25, 2006, all foreign exchange matters involved in employee share ownership plans and share option plans in which PRC citizens participate require approval from SAFE or its authorized branch. Pursuant to SAFE Circular 37, PRC residents who participate in share incentive plans in overseas non-publicly-listed companies may submit applications to SAFE or its local branches for the foreign exchange registration with respect to offshore special purpose companies. In addition, under the Notices on Issues concerning the Foreign Exchange Administration for Domestic Individuals Participating in Share Incentive Plans of Overseas Publicly-Listed Companies, or the Share Option Rules, issued by SAFE on February 15, 2012, PRC residents who are granted shares or share options by companies listed on overseas stock exchanges under share incentive plans are required to (i) register with SAFE or its local branches, (ii) retain a qualified PRC agent, which may be a PRC subsidiary of the overseas listed company or another qualified institution selected by the PRC subsidiary, to conduct the SAFE registration and other procedures with respect to the share incentive plans on behalf of the participants, and (iii) retain an overseas institution to handle matters in connection with their exercise of share options, purchase and sale of shares or interests and funds transfers.
Regulation of Dividend Distributions
The principal laws, rules and regulations governing dividend distributions by foreign-invested enterprises in the PRC are the Company Law of the PRC, as amended, the Wholly Foreign-owned Enterprise Law and its implementation regulations, the Chinese-foreign Cooperative Joint Venture Law and its implementation regulations, and the Chinese-foreign Equity Joint Venture Law and its implementation regulations. Under these laws, rules and regulations, foreign-invested enterprises may pay dividends only out of their accumulated profit, if any, as determined in accordance with PRC accounting standards and regulations. Both PRC domestic companies and wholly-foreign owned PRC enterprises are required to set aside a general reserve of at least 10% of their after-tax profit, until the cumulative amount of such reserve reaches 50% of their registered capital. A PRC company is not permitted to distribute any profits until any losses from prior fiscal years have been offset. Profits retained from prior fiscal years may be distributed together with distributable profits from the current fiscal year.
Available Information: Access to all of our Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) filings, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K, and amendments to those reports filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), is provided, free of charge, on our website (fozgo.com) as soon as reasonably practicable after such reports are electronically filed with, or furnished to, the SEC.
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ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS
ITEM 1A. Risk Factors.
Risk Factors - Risk Factors Relating to Doing Business in China.
The PRC government has significant oversight and discretion over the conduct of our business operations or to exert control over any offering of securities conducted overseas and/or foreign investment in China-based issuers, and may intervene with or influence our operations, may limit or completely hinder our ability to offer or continue to offer securities to investors, and may cause the value of such securities to significantly decline or be worthless, as the government deems appropriate to further regulatory, political and societal goals.
The PRC government may intervene or influence our operations at any time with little to no advanced notice, which could result in a material change in our operations and/or the value of our common stock. For example, the PRC government has recently published new policies that significantly affected certain industries such as the education and internet industries, and we cannot rule out the possibility that it will in the future release regulations or policies regarding any industry that could adversely affect the business, financial condition and results of operations of our company. Furthermore, the PRC government has also recently indicated an intent to exert more oversight and control over securities offerings and other capital markets activities that are conducted overseas and foreign investment in China-based companies. Any such action, once taken by the PRC government, could significantly limit or completely hinder our ability to offer or continue to offer securities to investors and cause the value of such securities to significantly decline or in extreme cases, become worthless.
Recently, the PRC government initiated a series of regulatory actions and statements to regulate business operations in China with little advance notice, including cracking down on illegal activities in the securities market, enhancing supervision over China-based companies listed overseas using the variable interest entity structure, adopting new measures to extend the scope of cybersecurity reviews, and expanding the efforts in anti-monopoly enforcement. We believe we are not subject to cybersecurity review with the Cyberspace Administration of China, or CAC, given that: (i) our products and services are offered not directly to individual users but through our institutional customers; (ii) we do not possess a large amount of personal information in our business operations; and (iii) data processed in our business does not have a bearing on national security and thus may not be classified as core or important data by the authorities. See also “Risk Factors - We may become subject to a variety of laws and regulations in the PRC regarding privacy, data security, cybersecurity, and data protection. We may be liable for improper use or appropriation of personal information provided by our customers.”
We believe that we are not subject to merger control review by China’s anti-monopoly enforcement agency due to the level of our revenues and the fact that we currently do not expect to propose or implement any acquisition of control of, or decisive influence over, any company with revenues within China of more than RMB400 million. Currently, these statements and regulatory actions have had no impact on our daily business operations, the ability to accept foreign investments and list our securities on a U.S. or other foreign exchange. Since these statements and regulatory actions are new, it is highly uncertain how soon legislative or administrative regulation making bodies will respond and what existing or new laws or regulations or detailed implementations and interpretations will be modified or promulgated, if any, and the potential impact such modified or new laws and regulations will have on our daily business operations, the ability to accept foreign investments and list our securities on a U.S. or other foreign exchange.
The Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act requires the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) to be permitted to inspect the issuer's public accounting firm within three years. This three year period will be shortened to two years if the Accelerating Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act is enacted. There are uncertainties under the PRC Securities Law relating to the procedures and requisite timing for the U.S. securities regulatory agencies to conduct investigations and collect evidence within the territory of the PRC. If the U.S. securities regulatory agencies are unable to conduct such investigations, they may suspend or de-register our registration with the SEC and delist our securities from applicable trading market within the US.
The Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act was signed into law on December 18, 2020, and requires auditors of publicly traded companies to submit to regular inspections every three years to assess such auditors’ compliance with applicable professional standards. On June 22, 2021, the U.S. Senate passed the Accelerating Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act which, if passed by the U.S. House of Representatives and signed into law, would reduce the number of consecutive non-inspection years required for triggering the prohibitions under the HFCA Act from three years to two, thus reducing the time before our securities may be prohibited from trading or delisted. On September 22, 2021, the PCAOB adopted rules to create a framework for the PCAOB to use when determining, as contemplated under the HFCA Act, whether it is unable to inspect or investigate completely registered public accounting firms located in a foreign jurisdiction because of a position taken by one or more authorities in that jurisdiction. On December 2, 2021, the SEC adopted amendments to finalize rules implementing the submission and disclosure requirements in the HFCA Act. The rules apply to registrants that the SEC identifies as having filed an annual report with an audit report issued by a registered public accounting firm that is located in a foreign jurisdiction and that the PCAOB is unable to inspect or investigate completely because of a position taken by an authority in a foreign jurisdiction. On December 16, 2021, the PCAOB issued a report on its determinations that it is unable to inspect or investigate completely PCAOB-registered public accounting firms headquartered in China or Hong Kong because of positions taken by PRC and Hong Kong authorities in those jurisdictions. The PCAOB has made such designations as mandated under the HFCA Act. Pursuant to each annual determination by the PCAOB, the SEC will, on an annual basis, identify issuers that have used non-inspected audit firms and thus are at risk of such suspensions in the future.
Our Auditor is based in New York and is subject to PCAOB inspection. It is not subject to the determinations announced by the PCAOB on December 16, 2021. However, due to the recent developments in connection with the implementation of the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act, we cannot assure you whether the SEC or other regulatory authorities would apply additional and more stringent criteria to us after considering the effectiveness of our auditor’s audit procedures and quality control procedures, adequacy of personnel and training, or sufficiency of resources, geographic reach or experience as it relates to the audit of our financial statements. The requirement in the HFCA Act that the PCAOB be permitted to inspect the issuer’s public accounting firm within two or three years, may result in the delisting of our securities from applicable trading markets in the U.S, in the future if the PCAOB is unable to inspect our accounting firm at such future time.
According to Article 177 of the Securities Law of the PRC (“Article 177”), overseas securities regulatory authorities are prohibited from engaging in activities pertaining to investigations or evidence collection directly conducted within the territories of the PRC, and Chinese entities or individuals are further prohibited from providing documents and information in connection with securities business activities to any organizations and/or persons abroad without the prior consent of the securities regulatory authority of the State Council and the competent departments of the State Council. As of the date of this prospectus, we are not aware of any implementing rules or regulations which have been published regarding application of Article 177.
We believe Article 177 is only applicable where the activities of overseas authorities constitute a direct investigation or evidence collection by such authorities within the territory of the PRC. In the event that the U.S. securities regulatory agencies carry out an investigation on us such as an enforcement action by the Department of Justice, the SEC or other authorities, such agencies’ activities will constitute conducting an investigation or collecting evidence directly within the territory of the PRC and accordingly fall within the scope of Article 177. In that case, the U.S. securities regulatory agencies may have to consider establishing cross-border cooperation with the securities regulatory authority of the PRC by way of judicial assistance, diplomatic channels or establishing a regulatory cooperation mechanism with the securities regulatory authority of the PRC. However, there is no assurance that the U.S. securities regulatory agencies will succeed in establishing such cross-border cooperation in this particular case and/or establish such cooperation in a timely manner.
Furthermore, as Article 177 is a recently promulgated provision, it remains unclear as to how it will be interpreted, implemented or applied by the Chinese Securities Regulatory Commission or other relevant government authorities. As such, there are uncertainties as to the procedures and requisite timing for the U.S. securities regulatory agencies to conduct investigations and collect evidence within the territory of the PRC. The Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act requires the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) be permitted to inspect the issuer's public accounting firm within three years. This three year period will be shortened to two years if the Accelerating Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act is enacted. If the U.S. securities regulatory agencies are unable to conduct such investigations, there exists a risk that they may determine to suspend or de-register our registration with the SEC and may also delist our securities from applicable trading market within the US.
Adverse regulatory developments in China may subject us to additional regulatory review, and additional disclosure requirements and regulatory scrutiny to be adopted by the SEC in response to risks related to recent regulatory developments in China may impose additional compliance requirements for companies like us with China-based operations, all of which could increase our compliance costs, subject us to additional disclosure requirements.
The recent regulatory developments in China, in particular with respect to restrictions on China-based companies raising capital offshore, may lead to additional regulatory review in China over our financing and capital raising activities in the United States. In addition, we may be subject to industry-wide regulations that may be adopted by the relevant PRC authorities, which may have the effect of limiting our service offerings, restricting the scope of our operations in China, or causing the suspension or termination of our business operations in China entirely, all of which will materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations. We may have to adjust, modify, or completely change our business operations in response to adverse regulatory changes or policy developments, and we cannot assure you that any remedial action adopted by us can be completed in a timely, cost-efficient, or liability-free manner or at all.
On July 30, 2021, in response to the recent regulatory developments in China and actions adopted by the PRC government, the Chairman of the SEC issued a statement asking the SEC staff to seek additional disclosures from offshore issuers associated with China-based operating companies (including Hong Kong) before their registration statements will be declared effective. On August 1, 2021, the China Securities Regulatory Commission stated in a statement that it had taken note of the new disclosure requirements announced by the SEC regarding the listings of Chinese companies and the recent regulatory development in China, and that both countries should strengthen communications on regulating China-related issuers. Since we operate in China, we cannot guarantee that we will not be subject to tightened regulatory review and we could be exposed to government interference from China.
We are subject to a variety of laws and regulations in the PRC regarding privacy, data security, cybersecurity, and data protection. We may be liable for improper use or appropriation of personal information provided by our customers.
We are subject to the laws and regulations in the PRC regarding privacy, data security, cybersecurity, and data protection, which laws and regulations are continuously evolving and developing. The scope and interpretation of the laws that are or may be applicable to us are often uncertain and may be conflicting, particularly with respect to foreign laws. In particular, there are numerous laws and regulations regarding privacy and the collection, sharing, use, processing, disclosure, and protection of personal information and other user data. Such laws and regulations often vary in scope, may be subject to differing interpretations, and may be inconsistent among different jurisdictions.
We expect to obtain information about various aspects of our operations as well as regarding our employees and third parties. We also maintain information about various aspects of our operations as well as regarding our employees. The integrity and protection of our customer, employee and company data is critical to our business. Our customers and employees expect that we will adequately protect their personal information. We are required by applicable laws to keep strictly confidential the personal information that we collect, and to take adequate security measures to safeguard such information.
The PRC Criminal Law, as amended by its Amendment 7 (effective on February 28, 2009) and Amendment 9 (effective on November 1, 2015), prohibits institutions, companies and their employees from selling or otherwise illegally disclosing a citizen’s personal information obtained during the course of performing duties or providing services or obtaining such information through theft or other illegal ways. On November 7, 2016, the Standing Committee of the PRC National People’s Congress issued the Cyber Security Law of the PRC, or Cyber Security Law, which became effective on June 1, 2017.
Pursuant to the Cyber Security Law, network operators must not, without users’ consent, collect their personal information, and may only collect users’ personal information necessary to provide their services. Providers are also obliged to provide security maintenance for their products and services and shall comply with provisions regarding the protection of personal information as stipulated under the relevant laws and regulations.
The Civil Code of the PRC (issued by the PRC National People’s Congress on May 28, 2020 and effective from January 1, 2021) provides main legal basis for privacy and personal information infringement claims under the Chinese civil laws. PRC regulators, including the Cyberspace Administration of China, MIIT, and the Ministry of Public Security have been increasingly focused on regulation in the areas of data security and data protection.
The PRC regulatory requirements regarding cybersecurity are constantly evolving. For instance, various regulatory bodies in China, including the Cyberspace Administration of China, the Ministry of Public Security and the SAMR, have enforced data privacy and protection laws and regulations with varying and evolving standards and interpretations. In April 2020, the Chinese government promulgated Cybersecurity Review Measures, which came into effect on June 1, 2020. According to the Cybersecurity Review Measures, operators of critical information infrastructure must pass a cybersecurity review when purchasing network products and services which do or may affect national security.
In November 2016, the Standing Committee of China’s National People’s Congress passed China’s first Cybersecurity Law (“CSL”), which became effective in June 2017. The CSL is the first PRC law that systematically lays out the regulatory requirements on cybersecurity and data protection, subjecting many previously under-regulated or unregulated activities in cyberspace to government scrutiny. The legal consequences of violation of the CSL include penalties of warning, confiscation of illegal income, suspension of related business, winding up for rectification, shutting down the websites, and revocation of business license or relevant permits. In April 2020, the Cyberspace Administration of China and certain other PRC regulatory authorities promulgated the Cybersecurity Review Measures, which became effective in June 2020. Pursuant to the Cybersecurity Review Measures, operators of critical information infrastructure must pass a cybersecurity review when purchasing network products and services which do or may affect national security. On September 1, 2021, the Standing Committee of the NPC adopted the PRC Data Security Law which sets forth the data security protection obligations for entities and individuals handling personal data, including that no entity or individual may acquire such data by stealing or other illegal means, and the collection and use of such data should not exceed the necessary limits. On February 15, 2022, the Measures for Cybersecurity Review issued by the Cyberspace Administration of China in July 2021 became effective (the “2021 Measures”). The 2021 Measures required that, in addition to “operator of critical information infrastructure,” any “data processor” carrying out data processing activities that affect or may affect national security should also be subject to cybersecurity review, and further elaborated the factors to be considered when assessing the national security risks of the relevant activities, including, among others, (i) the risk of core data, important data or a large amount of personal information being stolen, leaked, destroyed, and illegally used or exited the country; and (ii) the risk of critical information infrastructure, core data, important data or a large amount of personal information being affected, controlled, or maliciously used by foreign governments after listing abroad. Article 7 of the 2021 Measures states that “Where any network platform operator who possesses the personal information of more than one million users seeks foreign listings (“国外上市”), it shall file an application with the Office of Cybersecurity Review for cybersecurity review.” The cybersecurity review will also investigate the potential national security risks from overseas IPOs.
We believe that we are not subject to the cybersecurity review by the CAC under the 2021 Measures, given that: (i) we do not possess a large amount of personal information in our business operations; and (ii) data processed in our business does not have a bearing on national security and thus may not be classified as core or important data by the authorities. However, there remains uncertainty as to how the 2021 Measures will be interpreted or implemented and whether the PRC regulatory agencies, including the CAC, may adopt new laws, regulations, rules, or detailed implementation and interpretation related to the 2021 Measures. If any such new laws, regulations, rules, or implementation and interpretation comes into effect, we will take all reasonable measures and actions to comply and to minimize the adverse effect of such laws on us. The costs of compliance with, and other burdens imposed by, CSL and any other cybersecurity and related laws may limit the use and adoption of our products and services and could have an adverse impact on our business.
We cannot assure you that PRC regulatory agencies, including the CAC, would take the same view as we do, and there is no assurance that we can fully or timely comply with such laws. In the event that we are subject to any mandatory cybersecurity review and other specific actions required by the CAC, we face uncertainty as to whether any clearance or other required actions can be timely completed, or at all. Given such uncertainty, we may be further required to suspend or shut down our relevant business, cease the trading of our securities on the OTC Markets or face other penalties, which could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations. We do not know what additional regulations will be adopted or how such regulations will affect us and the trading of our securities on the OTC Markets.
Under the PRC enterprise income tax law, we may be classified as a “PRC resident enterprise”, which could result in unfavorable tax consequences to us and our shareholders and have a material adverse effect on our results of operations and the value of your investment.
Under the PRC enterprise income tax law that became effective on January 1, 2008, an enterprise established outside the PRC with “de facto management bodies” within the PRC is considered a “resident enterprise” for PRC enterprise income tax purposes and is generally subject to a uniform 25% enterprise income tax rate on its worldwide income. On April 22, 2009, the State Administration of Taxation, or the SAT, issued the Notice Regarding the Determination of Chinese-Controlled Overseas Incorporated Enterprises as PRC Tax Resident Enterprise on the Basis of De Facto Management Bodies, or SAT Circular 82, which provides certain specific criteria for determining whether the “de facto management body” of a PRC-controlled enterprise that is incorporated offshore is located in China. Further to SAT Circular 82, on August 3, 2011, the SAT issued the Administrative Measures of Enterprise Income Tax of Chinese-Controlled Offshore Incorporated Resident Enterprises (Trial), or SAT Bulletin 45, which became effective on September 1, 2011, to provide more guidance on the implementation of SAT Circular 82.
According to SAT Circular 82, an offshore incorporated enterprise controlled by a PRC enterprise or a PRC enterprise group will be considered a PRC tax resident enterprise by virtue of having its “de facto management body” in China and will be subject to PRC enterprise income tax on its worldwide income only if all of the following conditions are met: (a) the senior management and core management departments in charge of its daily operations function have their presence mainly in the PRC; (b) its financial and human resources decisions are subject to determination or approval by persons or bodies in the PRC; (c) its major assets, accounting books, company seals, and minutes and files of its board and shareholders’ meetings are located or kept in the PRC; and (d) not less than half of the enterprise’s directors or senior management with voting rights habitually reside in the PRC. SAT Bulletin 45 further clarifies the resident status determination, post-determination administration as well as competent tax authorities.
Although SAT Circular 82 and SAT Bulletin 45 only apply to offshore incorporated enterprises controlled by PRC enterprises or PRC enterprise group instead of those controlled by PRC individuals or foreigners, the determination criteria set forth therein may reflect SAT’s general position on how the term “de facto management body” could be applied in determining the tax resident status of offshore enterprises, regardless of whether they are controlled by PRC enterprises, individuals or foreigners.
We believe that none of our entities outside of China is a PRC resident enterprise for PRC tax purposes even if the standards for “de facto management body” prescribed in the SAT Circular 82 are applicable to us. However, the tax resident status of an enterprise is subject to determination by the PRC tax authorities and uncertainties remain with respect to the interpretation of the term “de facto management body.” If the PRC tax authorities determine that we or any of our subsidiaries outside of China is a PRC resident enterprise for enterprise income tax purposes, we may be subject to PRC enterprise income on our worldwide income at the rate of 25%, which could materially reduce our net income. In addition, we will also be subject to PRC enterprise income tax reporting obligations.
Although dividends paid by one PRC tax resident to another PRC tax resident should qualify as “tax-exempt income” under the enterprise income tax law, we cannot assure you that dividends paid by our PRC subsidiary to our Hong Kong subsidiary, paid to our Hong Kong subsidiary to our British Virgin Islands holding company or Nevada holding company will not be subject to a 10% withholding tax, as the PRC foreign exchange control authorities, which enforce the withholding tax on dividends, and the PRC tax authorities have not yet issued guidance with respect to the processing of outbound remittances to entities that are treated as resident enterprises for PRC enterprise income tax purposes.
Non-PRC resident holders of our common stock may also be subject to PRC withholding tax on dividends paid by us and PRC tax on gains realized on the sale or other disposition of common stock, if such income is sourced from within the PRC. The tax would be imposed at the rate of 10% in the case of non-PRC resident enterprise holders and 20% in the case of non-PRC resident individual holders. In the case of dividends, we would be required to withhold the tax at source. Any PRC tax liability may be reduced under applicable tax treaties or similar arrangements. Although our holding companies are incorporated in Nevada and the British Virgin Islands, it remains unclear whether dividends received and gains realized by non-PRC resident holders of our common stock will be regarded as income from sources within the PRC if we are classified as a PRC resident enterprise. Any such tax will reduce the returns on your investment in our common stock.
We cannot assure you that the PRC tax authorities will not, at their discretion, adjust any capital gains and impose tax return filing and withholding or tax payment obligations with respect to any internal restructuring, and our Hong Kong subsidiary or variable interest entity may be requested to assist in the filing. Any PRC tax imposed on a transfer of our shares not through a public stock exchange, or any adjustment of such gains would cause us to incur additional costs and may have a negative impact on the value of your investment in the company.
We face uncertainty with respect to indirect transfers of equity interests in PRC resident enterprises by their non-PRC holding companies.
We face uncertainties regarding the reporting on and consequences of private equity financing transactions involving the transfer of shares in the Company by non-resident investors. In February 2015, the SAT issued the Bulletin on Issues of Enterprise Income Tax on Indirect Transfers of Assets by Non-PRC Resident Enterprises, or SAT Bulletin 7, as amended in 2017. Pursuant to this bulletin, an “indirect transfer” of assets, including equity interests in a PRC resident enterprise, by non-PRC resident enterprises may be re-characterized and treated as a direct transfer of PRC taxable assets, if such arrangement does not have a reasonable commercial purpose and was established for the purpose of avoiding payment of PRC enterprise income tax. As a result, gains derived from such indirect transfer may be subject to PRC enterprise income tax. According to SAT Bulletin 7, “PRC taxable assets” include assets attributed to an establishment in China, immovable properties located in China, and equity investments in PRC resident enterprises, in respect of which gains from their transfer by a direct holder, being a non-PRC resident enterprise, would be subject to PRC enterprise income taxes. When determining whether there is a “reasonable commercial purpose” of the transaction arrangement, features to be taken into consideration include: whether the main value of the equity interest of the relevant offshore enterprise derives from PRC taxable assets; whether the assets of the relevant offshore enterprise mainly consist of direct or indirect investment in China or if its income mainly derives from China; whether the offshore enterprise and its subsidiaries directly or indirectly holding PRC taxable assets have real commercial nature which is evidenced by their actual function and risk exposure; the duration of existence of the business model and organizational structure; the replicability of the transaction by direct transfer of PRC taxable assets; and the tax situation of such indirect transfer and applicable tax treaties or similar arrangements. In respect of an indirect offshore transfer of assets of a PRC establishment, the resulting gain is to be included with the enterprise income tax filing of the PRC establishment or place of business being transferred, and would consequently be subject to PRC enterprise income tax at a rate of 25%. Where the underlying transfer relates to the immovable properties located in China or to equity investments in a PRC resident enterprise, which is not related to a PRC establishment or place of business of a non-resident enterprise, a PRC enterprise income tax of 10% would apply, subject to available preferential tax treatment under applicable tax treaties or similar arrangements, and the party who is obligated to make the transfer payments has the withholding obligation. SAT Bulletin 7 does not apply to transactions of sale of shares by investors through a public stock exchange where such shares were acquired from a transaction through a public stock exchange.
There is uncertainty as to the application of SAT Bulletin 7. We face uncertainties as to the reporting and other implications of certain past and future transactions where PRC taxable assets are involved, such as offshore restructuring, sale of the shares in our offshore subsidiaries or investments. We may be subject to filing obligations or taxed if we are a transferor in such transactions, and may be subject to withholding obligations if we are a transferee in such transactions under SAT Bulletin 7. For transfer of shares in us by investors that are non-PRC resident enterprises, our Hong Kong subsidiary or variable interest entity may be requested to assist in the filing under SAT Bulletin 7. As a result, we may be required to expend valuable resources to comply with SAT Bulletin 7 or to request the relevant transferors from whom we purchase taxable assets to comply with these circulars, or to establish that we should not be taxed under these circulars, which may have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations.
The M&A Rules and certain other PRC regulations may make it more difficult for us to pursue growth through acquisitions.
The Regulations on Mergers and Acquisitions of Domestic Companies by Foreign Investors, or the M&A Rules, adopted by six PRC regulatory agencies in 2006 and amended in 2009, and some other regulations and rules concerning mergers and acquisitions established complex procedures and requirements for acquisition of Chinese companies by foreign investors, including requirements in some instances that the Ministry of Commerce of the PRC be notified in advance of any change-of-control transaction in which a foreign investor takes control of a PRC domestic enterprise. Moreover, the Anti-Monopoly Law promulgated by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, which became effective in 2008, requires that transactions which are deemed concentrations and involve parties with specified turnover thresholds must be cleared by the Ministry of Commerce before they can be completed. In addition, the security review rules issued by the Ministry of Commerce and became effective in September 2011 specify that mergers and acquisitions by foreign investors that raise “national defense and security” concerns and mergers and acquisitions through which foreign investors may acquire de facto control over domestic enterprises that raise “national security” concerns are subject to strict review by the Ministry of Commerce, and the rules prohibit any activities attempting to bypass a security review, including by structuring the transaction through a proxy or contractual control arrangement.
In the future, we may pursue potential strategic acquisitions that are complementary to our business and operations. Complying with the requirements of the above-mentioned regulations and other rules to complete such transactions could be time-consuming, and any required approval processes, including obtaining approval or clearance from the Ministry of Commerce, may delay or inhibit our ability to complete such transactions, which could affect our ability to expand our business or maintain our market share. Furthermore, according to the M&A Rules, if a PRC entity or individual plans to merger or acquire its related PRC entity through an overseas company legitimately incorporated or controlled by such entity or individual, such a merger and acquisition will be subject to examination and approval by the Ministry of Commerce. The application and interpretations of M&A Rules are still uncertain, and there is possibility that the PRC regulators may promulgate new rules or explanations requiring that we obtain approval of the Ministry of Commerce for our completed or ongoing mergers and acquisitions. There is no assurance that we can obtain such approval from the Ministry of Commerce for our mergers and acquisitions, and if we fail to obtain those approvals, we may be required to suspend our acquisition and be subject to penalties. Any uncertainties regarding such approval requirements could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and corporate structure.
Furthermore, the M&A Rules, among other things, purport to require that an offshore special purpose vehicle controlled directly or indirectly by PRC domestic companies or individuals and formed for purposes of overseas listing through acquisition of PRC domestic interests obtain the approval of the CSRC prior to the listing and trading of such special purpose vehicle’s securities on an overseas stock exchange. The CSRC has not issued any definitive rules or interpretations concerning whether offerings such as this offering are subject to the CSRC approval procedures under the M&A Rules. Although we are of the position that we are not required to obtain approval from the CSRC under the M&A Rules for listing and trading of our securities after the consummation of the Business Combination, uncertainties still exist as to how the M&A Rules will be interpreted and implemented and the opinion stated above is subject to any new laws, rules and regulations or detailed implementations and interpretations in any form relating to the M&A Rules.
PRC regulations relating to offshore investment activities by PRC residents may limit our the ability of our variable interest entities or Hong Kong subsidiary to increase their registered capital or distribute profits to us or otherwise expose us to liability and penalties under PRC law.
The State Administration of Foreign Exchange (“SAFE”) promulgated the Circular on Relevant Issues Relating to PRC Resident’s Investment and Financing and Roundtrip Investment through Special Purpose Vehicles, or SAFE Circular 37, in July 2014 that requires PRC residents or entities to register with SAFE or its local branch in connection with their establishment or control of an offshore entity established for the purpose of overseas investment or financing. In addition, such PRC residents or entities must update their SAFE registrations when the offshore special purpose vehicle undergoes material events relating to any change of basic information (including change of such PRC residents or entities, name and operation term), increases or decreases in investment amount, transfers or exchanges of shares, or mergers or divisions.
SAFE Circular 37 is issued to replace the Circular on Relevant Issues Concerning Foreign Exchange Administration for PRC Residents Engaging in Financing and Roundtrip Investments through Overseas Special Purpose Vehicles. If our shareholders who are PRC residents or entities do not complete their registration with the local SAFE branches, our variable interest entities may be prohibited from distributing their profits and proceeds from any reduction in capital, share transfer or liquidation to us, and we may be restricted in our ability to contribute additional capital to our variable interest entities. Moreover, failure to comply with SAFE registration described above could result in liability under PRC laws for evasion of applicable foreign exchange restrictions.
However, we may not be informed of the identities of all the PRC residents or entities holding direct or indirect interest in us, nor can we compel our shareholders to comply with the requirements of SAFE Circular 37. As a result, we cannot assure you that all of our shareholders who are PRC residents or entities have complied with, and will in the future make or obtain any applicable registrations or approvals required by, SAFE Circular 37. Failure by such shareholders to comply with SAFE Circular 37, or failure by us to amend the foreign exchange registrations of our variable interest entity or Hong Kong subsidiary, if applicable, could subject us to fines or legal sanctions, restrict our overseas or cross-border investment activities, limit our the ability of our variable interest entity or Hong Kong subsidiary to make distributions or pay dividends to us or affect our ownership structure, which could adversely affect our business and prospects. For a detailed description of the potential government regulations facing the Company and the offering associated with our operations in China, please refer to “Government and Industry Regulations - Regulations Relating to Foreign Exchange and Dividend Distribution.”
PRC regulation of loans to and direct investment in PRC entities by offshore holding companies and governmental control of currency conversion may delay or prevent us from using the proceeds we receive from offshore financing activities to make loans to or make additional capital contributions to our variable interest entity, which could materially and adversely affect our liquidity and our ability to fund and expand business.
Any transfer of funds by us to our variable interest entity or our PRC and Hong Kong subsidiaries, either as a shareholder loan or as an increase in registered capital, may become subject to approval by or registration or filing with relevant governmental authorities in China. According to the relevant PRC regulations on foreign-invested enterprises in China, capital contributions to PRC entities are subject to the approval of or filing with the Ministry of Commerce in its local branches and registration with a local bank authorized by SAFE. It is unclear if Hong Kong subsidiaries will be deemed a PRC subsidiary. If Hong Kong subsidiaries are deemed to be PRC subsidiaries, (i) any foreign loan procured by our Hong Kong subsidiary will be required to be registered with SAFE or its local branches or filed with SAFE in its information system; and (ii) our Hong Kong subsidiary will not be able to procure loans which exceed the difference between their total investment amount and registered capital or, as an alternative, only procure loans subject to the calculation approach and limitation as provided in the People’s Bank of China Notice No. 9 (“PBOC Notice No. 9”). We may not be able to obtain these government approvals or complete such registrations on a timely basis, if at all, with respect to future capital contributions or foreign loans by us to our PRC and Hong Kong subsidiaries or our variable interest entity, if required. If we fail to receive such approvals or complete such registration or filing, our ability to use the proceeds we receive from our offshore financing activities and to capitalize our China operations may be negatively affected, which could adversely affect our liquidity and ability to fund and expand our business. There is, in effect, no statutory limit on the amount of capital contribution that we can make to our Hong Kong subsidiary. This is because there is no statutory limit on the amount of registered capital for our Hong Kong subsidiary, and we are allowed to make capital contributions to our Hong Kong subsidiary by subscribing for their initial registered capital and increased registered capital, provided that the Hong Kong subsidiary complete the relevant filing and registration procedures.
The Circular on Reforming the Administration of Foreign Exchange Settlement of Capital of Foreign-Invested Enterprises, or SAFE Circular 19, effective as of June 1, 2015, as amended by Circular of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange on Reforming and Regulating Policies on the Control over Foreign Exchange Settlement under the Capital Account, or SAFE Circular 16, effective on June 9, 2016, allows FIEs to settle their foreign exchange capital at their discretion, but continues to prohibit FIEs from using the Renminbi fund converted from their foreign exchange capitals for expenditure beyond their business scopes, and also prohibit FIEs from using such Renminbi fund to provide loans to persons other than affiliates unless otherwise permitted under its business scope. If Safe Circulars 16 and 19 are interpreted to apply to the Hong Kong Dollar, our ability to use Hong Kong Dollars converted from the net proceeds from our offshore financing activities to fund the establishment of new entities in Hong Kong or China, to invest in or acquire any other Hong Kong or PRC companies may be limited, which may adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Our variable interest entity and our PRC and Hong Kong subsidiaries may be subject to restrictions on paying their net income, making dividend distributions or making other payments to us, which may restrict their ability to satisfy liquidity requirements, conduct business and our ability to pay dividends to holders of our common stock.
We are a holding company incorporated in Nevada. We rely on dividends from our subsidiary in China for our cash and financing requirements, such as the funds necessary to service any debt we may incur. Current PRC regulations permit PRC subsidiaries to pay dividends to foreign parent companies only out of their accumulated after-tax profits upon satisfaction of relevant statutory requirements and procedures, if any, determined in accordance with Chinese accounting standards and regulations. In addition, the VIE and our PRC subsidiary are required to set aside at least 10% of their accumulated profits each year, if any, to fund certain reserve funds until the total amount set aside reaches 50% of its registered capital. Furthermore, if our VIE and PRC subsidiary and their subsidiaries incur debt on their own behalf in the future, the instruments governing the debt may restrict their ability to make distributions or pay dividends or make other payments to the foreign parent company, which may restrict the ability of the foreign parent company to satisfy its liquidity requirements.
In addition, the Enterprise Income Tax Law of the PRC, or the PRC EIT Law, and its implementation rules provide that withholding tax rate of 10% will be applicable to dividends payable by Chinese companies to non-PRC-resident enterprises unless otherwise exempted or reduced according to treaties or arrangements between the PRC central government and governments of other countries or regions where the non-PRC-resident enterprises are incorporated. For a detailed description of the potential government regulations facing the Company and our operations in China, please refer to “Government and Industry Regulations - Regulations Relating to Foreign Exchange and Dividend Distribution.”
Governmental control of currency conversion may limit our ability to utilize revenues effectively and affect the value of your investment.
The PRC government imposes controls on the convertibility of the Renminbi into foreign currencies and, in certain cases, the remittance of currency out of China. Approval from or registration with appropriate government authorities is required where Renminbi is to be converted into foreign currency and remitted out of China to pay capital expenses such as the repayment of loans denominated in foreign currencies. In light of the flood of capital outflows of China in 2016 due to the weakening Renminbi, the PRC government has imposed more restrictive foreign exchange policies and stepped-up scrutiny of major outbound capital movement including overseas direct investment. More restrictions and substantial vetting process are put in place by SAFE to regulate cross-border transactions falling under the capital account. If any of our shareholders regulated by such policies fail to satisfy the applicable overseas direct investment filing or approval requirement timely or at all, it may be subject to penalties from the relevant PRC authorities. The PRC government may at its discretion further restrict access in the future to foreign currencies for current account transactions.
We receive substantially all of our revenues in Renminbi. Under our current corporate structure, our Nevada holding company may rely on dividend payments from our variable interest entity to fund any cash and financing requirements that we may have. We will be required to obtain SAFE approval to use cash generated from the operations of our variable interest entity and consolidated affiliated entities to pay off their respective debt in a currency other than Renminbi owed to entities outside China, or to make other capital expenditure payments outside China in a currency other than Renminbi. We may be prevented from obtaining sufficient foreign currencies to satisfy our foreign currency demands. As a result, we may not be able to pay dividends in foreign currencies to its shareholders. For a detailed description of the potential government regulations facing the Company and the offering associated with our operations in China, please refer to “Government and Industry Regulations - Regulations Relating to Foreign Exchange and Dividend Distribution.”
Failure to comply with PRC regulations regarding the registration requirements for employee stock ownership plans or share option plans may subject the PRC plan participants or us to fines and other legal or administrative sanctions.
Pursuant to SAFE Circular 37, PRC residents who participate in share incentive plans in overseas non-publicly-listed companies may submit applications to SAFE or its local branches for the foreign exchange registration with respect to offshore special purpose companies. In the meantime, our directors, executive officers and other employees who are PRC citizens or who are non-PRC residents residing in the PRC for a continuous period of not less than one year, subject to limited exceptions, and who have been granted incentive share awards by us, may follow the Notices on Issues Concerning the Foreign Exchange Administration for Domestic Individuals Participating in Stock Incentive Plan of Overseas Publicly-Listed Company, or 2012 SAFE notices, promulgated by the SAFE in 2012. Pursuant to the 2012 SAFE notices, PRC citizens and non-PRC citizens who reside in China for a continuous period of not less than one year who participate in any stock incentive plan of an overseas publicly listed company, subject to a few exceptions, are required to register with SAFE through a domestic qualified agent, which could be the PRC subsidiaries of such overseas listed company, and complete certain other procedures. In addition, an overseas entrusted institution must be retained to handle matters in connection with the exercise or sale of stock options and the purchase or sale of shares and interests. Our executive officers and other employees who are PRC citizens or who reside in the PRC for a continuous period of not less than one year and who have been granted options will be subject to these regulations. It is unclear if these regulations will be expanded to include Hong Kong residents or citizens. Failure to complete the SAFE registrations may subject them to fines, and legal sanctions and may also limit our ability to contribute additional capital into our variable interest entity. We also face regulatory uncertainties that could restrict our ability to adopt additional incentive plans for our directors, executive officers and employees under PRC law.
The SAT has issued certain circulars concerning employee share options and restricted shares. Under these circulars, employees working in China who exercise share options or are granted restricted shares will be subject to PRC individual income tax. Our PRC entities may become obligated to file documents related to employee share options or restricted shares with relevant tax authorities and to withhold individual income taxes of those employees who exercise their share options. If our employees fail to pay or we fail to withhold their income taxes according to relevant laws and regulations, we may face sanctions imposed by the tax authorities or other PRC governmental authorities.
If we become directly subject to the recent scrutiny, criticism and negative publicity involving U.S.-listed Chinese companies, we may have to expend significant resources to investigate and resolve the matter which could harm our business operations, stock price and reputation and could result in a loss of your investment in our stock, especially if such matter cannot be addressed and resolved favorably.
Recently, U.S. public companies that have substantially all of their operations in Hong Kong and China have been the subject of intense scrutiny, criticism and negative publicity by investors, financial commentators and regulatory agencies, such as the SEC. Much of the scrutiny, criticism and negative publicity has centered around the effects of US-China governmental policies and political climate, financial and accounting irregularities and mistakes, a lack of effective internal controls over financial accounting, inadequate corporate governance policies or a lack of adherence thereto and, in many cases, allegations of fraud. As a result of the scrutiny, criticism and negative publicity, the publicly traded stock of many U.S. listed Chinese companies has sharply decreased in value and, in some cases, has become virtually worthless. Many of these companies are now subject to shareholder lawsuits and SEC enforcement actions, and are conducting internal and external investigations into the allegations. It is not clear what effect this sector-wide scrutiny, criticism and negative publicity will have on our Company, our business and our stock price. If we become the subject of any unfavorable allegations, whether such allegations are proven to be true or untrue, we will have to expend significant resources to investigate such allegations and/or defend our company. This situation will be costly and time consuming and distract our management from growing our company. If such allegations are not proven to be groundless, our company and business operations will be severely negatively affected and your investment in our stock could be rendered worthless.
Investors may experience difficulties in effecting service of legal process, enforcing foreign judgments or bringing original actions in China based upon U.S. laws, including the federal securities laws or other foreign laws against us or our management.
All of our current operations are conducted in China. Moreover, most of our current directors and officers are nationals or residents of China. All or a substantial portion of the assets of these persons are located outside the United States and in China. As a result, it may not be possible to effect service of process within the United States or elsewhere outside China upon these persons. In addition, uncertainty exists as to whether the courts of China would recognize or enforce judgments of U.S. courts obtained against us or such officers and/or directors predicated upon the civil liability provisions of the securities laws of the United States or any state thereof, or be competent to hear original actions brought in China against us or such persons predicated upon the securities laws of the United States or any state thereof.

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ITEM 1B. UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS
ITEM 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments.
None.

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ITEM 2. PROPERTIES
ITEM 2. Properties.
We maintain our approximately 300 square meter corporate office at Room 1206, 12th Floor, 301, 3-17 F, Building 5, Block 1, Hangfeng Road, Fengtai District, Beijing, PRC through a sublease with Beijing Hanze. According to the sublease, we are obligated to pay a monthly rent of approximately RMB 51,713 (approximately US $7,900) during the term of 2 years. The lease expires July 19, 2022. The foregoing description of the lease is qualified in its entirety by reference to the House Lease Contract, an English translation of which is filed as Exhibit 10.7 to this Annual Report and incorporated herein by reference.
In March 2020, we expanded our corporate office and leased an additional 606 square meters located at Room 605, 6/F, Building 5, No. 1 yard, Hangfeng Road, Fengtai District, Beijing. According to the sublease, we are obligated to pay a monthly rent of RMB 88,476 (approximately US $13,560) during the term of 2 years. The lease for the additional space expires March 29, 2022. The foregoing description of the lease is qualified in its entirety by reference to the House Lease Contract, an English translation of which is filed as Exhibit 10.8 to this Annual Report and incorporated herein by reference.
We also lease a 220 square meter office space located at Room 058, 3/F, No. 89, West 3rd Ring North Road, Haidian District, Beijing. Our lease commenced on January 18, 2021 and will expire on January 17, 2024. Our monthly lease amount is of RMB 42,158 (approximately US $6,500). The foregoing description of the lease is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Lease Agreement, an English translation of which is filed as Exhibit 10.9 to this Annual Report and incorporated herein by reference.
In March 2022, we leased a 299.5 square meters office space located at Rooms 805 and 806, Block A, International Finance and Economic Center, No. 87 Xisanhuan North Road, Haidian District, Beijing. Our lease commenced on March 10, 2022, and will expire on March 31, 2024. Our monthly lease amount is of RMB 67,412 (approximately US $10,570). The foregoing description of the lease is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Lease Agreement, an English translation of which is filed as Exhibit 10.10 to this Annual Report and incorporated herein by reference.
On June 3, 2020, we purchased a 194 square meter apartment for staff accommodation at a purchase price of RMB 12,095,666 (approximately US $1.86 million). The apartment is located in Mentougou District, Beijing, PRC.
We believe that our current facilities are adequate for our current needs. We expect to secure new facilities or expand existing facilities as necessary to support future growth. We believe that suitable additional space will be available on commercially reasonable terms as needed to accommodate our operations.

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ITEM 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
ITEM 3. Legal Proceedings.
Beijing VIE, the Company’s VIE has a payable to Mr. Niu Jianxin for RMB 3,955,000 (approximately US$606,000), representing a non-interest bearing loan from Mr. Niu to the Company (which was expected to be paid directly to Ms. Tian Xiangyang to settle the Company's dividends payable to Ms. Tian) in 2019. As of the date of this report, neither Beijing VIE nor Ms. Tian has received the said payment from Mr. Niu. Upon Mr. Niu’s departure from Beijing VIE in February 2020, Mr. Niu allegedly transferred his rights to Mr. Zhang Hongbin in March 2020. On April 9, 2020, Mr. Zhang Hongbin filed a lawsuit with the People's Court of Fengtai District, Beijing, The case of Niu Jianxin suing Beijing Yingjun was heard by The Second Intermediate People's Court of Beijing on November 16, 2021, and Beijing Yingjun won the lawsuit.
In December 2020, Shanghai Gaolie Enterprise Service Center filed a lawsuit against Beijing Guoyi and Beijing VIE for RMB 484,000 (approximately US$74,000) for certain unpaid talent intermediary fees. Shanghai Gaolie Enterprise Service Center has withdrawn the suit.
In accordance with applicable accounting guidance, the Company evaluates all pending legal matters periodically and establishes reserves when it is probable that they will result in a negative outcome, and that the amount of the loss could be reasonably estimated; and records accruals for certain of its outstanding legal proceedings, investigations or claims when the above conditions have been met. The Company does not have any legal reserve as of December 31, 2021.
When a loss contingency is not both probable and estimable, the Company does not establish an accrued liability. However, if the loss (or an additional loss in excess of the accrual) is at least a reasonable possibility and material, then the Company discloses an estimate of the possible loss or range of loss, if such estimate can be made or discloses that an estimate cannot be made.
The assessments whether a loss is probable or a reasonable possibility, and whether the loss or a range of loss is estimable, often involve a series of complex judgments about future events. Management is often unable to estimate a range of reasonably possible loss, particularly where (i) the damages sought are substantial or indeterminate, (ii) the proceedings are in the early stages, or (iii) the matters involve novel or unsettled legal theories or a large number of parties. In such cases, there is considerable uncertainty regarding the timing or ultimate resolution of such matters, including a possible eventual loss, fine, penalty or business impact, if any.
Except as set forth above, there are no material pending legal proceedings to which the Company or its subsidiaries are a party or to which any of its or their property is subject, nor are there any such proceedings known to be contemplated by governmental authorities. None of the Company’s directors, officers, affiliates or any owner of record or beneficially of more than 5% of our common stock, or any associate of any of the foregoing, is involved in a proceeding adverse to its business or has a material interest adverse to its business.

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ITEM 4. MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURE
ITEM 4. MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES.
Not applicable.
PART II

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ITEM 5. MARKET FOR REGISTRANT'S COMMON EQUITY
ITEM 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities.
(a) Market Information
Shares of our common stock are quoted on the OTC Pink under the symbol “HJGP”. As of March 29, 2022, the last closing price of our securities was $0.12, with little to no quoting activity. There is no established public trading market for our securities and a regular trading market may not develop, or if developed, may not be sustained.
The following table sets forth, for the fiscal quarters indicated, the high and low bid information for our common stock, as reported on the Pink Sheets. The following quotations reflect inter-dealer prices, without retail mark-up, mark-down or commission and may not represent actual transactions.
Quarterly period
High
Low
Fiscal year ended December 31, 2021:
Fourth Quarter
$ 0.75
$ 0.15
Third Quarter
$ 0.80
$ 0.22
Second Quarter
$ 0.30
$ 0.25
First Quarter
$ 0.55
$ 0.30
Fiscal year ended December 31, 2020:
Fourth Quarter
$ 0.75
$ 0.15
Third Quarter
$ 0.80
$ 0.22
Second Quarter
$ 0.30
$ 0.25
First Quarter
$ 0.55
$ 0.30
(b) Approximate Number of Holders of Common Stock
As of March 30, 2022, there were approximately 50 shareholders of record of our common stock. Such number does not include any shareholders holding shares in nominee or “street name”.
(c) Dividends
Holders of our common stock are entitled to receive such dividends as may be declared by our board of directors. We paid no dividends on our common stock during the periods reported herein, nor do we anticipate paying any dividends in the foreseeable future. Prior to our acquisition of Hanjiao International Holding Limited, and its affiliated entities, affiliated entities of Hanjiao International Holding Limited distributed dividends to its shareholders as more fully set forth in Note 15 - Dividends Payable in our Consolidated Financial Statements.
(e) Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities
None.

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ITEM 6. SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA
ITEM 6. RESERVED.

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ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS
ITEM 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.
This discussion summarizes the significant factors affecting the operating results, financial condition, liquidity and cash flows of the Company and its subsidiaries and VIE for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020. The discussion and analysis that follows should be read together with the section entitled “Cautionary Note Concerning Forward-Looking Statements” and our consolidated financial statements and the notes to the consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this annual report on Form 10-K.
Except for historical information, the matters discussed in this section are forward looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties and are based upon judgments concerning various factors that are beyond the Company’s control. Consequently, and because forward-looking statements are inherently subject to risks and uncertainties, the actual results and outcomes may differ materially from the results and outcomes discussed in the forward-looking statements. You are urged to carefully review and consider the various disclosures made by us in this report.
Currency and Exchange Rate
Unless otherwise noted, all currency figures quoted as “U.S. dollars”, “dollars” or “US$” refer to the legal currency of the United States. References to “Chinese Yuan” or “Renminbi (“RMB”)” are to the Chinese Yuan, the legal currency of the People’s Republic of China. Throughout this report, assets and liabilities of the Company’s subsidiaries are translated into U.S. dollars using the exchange rate on the balance sheet date. Revenue and expenses are translated at average rates prevailing during the period. The gains and losses resulting from translation of financial statements of foreign subsidiaries are recorded as a separate component of accumulated other comprehensive income within the statement of stockholders’ equity.
Impact of COVID-19 on Our Business
The outbreak of COVID-19 that started in late January 2020 in the PRC had negatively affected our business. In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 as a pandemic and has resulted in quarantines, travel restrictions, and the temporary closure of stores and business facilities in China and the U.S. in the subsequent months. Given the rapidly expanding nature of the COVID-19 pandemic, and because substantially all of the Company’s business operations and its workforce are concentrated in China, the Company’s business, results of operations, and financial condition have been adversely affected. For the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, the Company had a net losses of approximately $7.0 and $15.0 million, respectively. At December 31, 2021, the Company has a significant working capital deficiency of approximately $3.3 million, and a shareholders’ deficit of approximately $12.4 million. These conditions raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.
To mitigate the overall financial impact of COVID-19 on the Company’s business, management introduced cost containment and staff reduction measures, revised product selection and incentive programs and worked with its service centers continuously to enhance their marketing and promotion activities. Management believes that COVID-19 will continue to have a material impact on its financial results for the first half of 2022 and could cause the potential impairment of certain assets. Accordingly, we expect to continue implementing cost containment measures, work closely with our service centers with offline, online and virtual marketing and promotion activities, as well as actively recruit key sales members and obtain product and service collaborations. While the Company cannot accurately predict the full impact of COVID-19 on its business in 2022, management believes that its business will gradually stabilize in 2022 as market conditions in China continue to improve.
Results of Operations
Our consolidated financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis, which assumes that we will be able to continue to operate in the future in the normal course of business. In our consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, it has included a note about our ability to continue as a going concern due to our negative operating cash flows and significant operating losses in 2021 and 2020 as a result of COVID-19. Business closures in the PRC and limitations on business operations arising from COVID-19 has significantly disrupted our ability to generate revenues and operating cash flows 2021 and 2020.
While the Company cannot accurately predict the full impact of COVID-19 on its business in 2022, management believes that its business will gradually stabilize in 2022 as market conditions in China continue to improve. In assessing the Company’s liquidity, management monitors and analyzes its cash on hand and its operating expenses, and existing regulatory obligations and commercial commitments. Based on its latest sales and cash flows projection, management believes that the Company should be able to generate sufficient cash flows from operations to meet its working capital requirements for the next twelve months; and that its capital resources are currently sufficient to maintain its business operations for the next twelve months.
Comparison for the Years Ended December 31, 2021 and 2020
The following table sets forth certain financial data for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020:
For the Year Ended December 31, Percentage
Change
Dollars % Dollars % %
Revenues $ 2,521,427 100.0 $ 675,435 100.0 273.3
Cost of revenues (2,201,201 ) (87.3 ) (1,802,493 ) (266.9 ) 22.1
Gross profit (loss) 320,226 12.7 (1,127,058 ) (166.9 ) (128.4 )
General and administrative expenses 2,660,402 105.5 7,319,709 1,083.7 (63.7 )
Selling expenses 1,877,877 74.5 2,418,217 358.0 (22.3 )
Finance (income) expenses, net 38,634 1.5 (189,759 ) (28.1 ) (120.4 )
Total operating expenses 4,576,913 181.5 9,548,167 1,413.6 (52.1 )
Operating (loss) (4,256,687 ) (168.8 ) (10,675,225 ) (1,580.5 ) (60.1 )
Other expenses, net (2,605,599 ) (103.3 ) (4,430,599 ) (656.0 ) (41.2 )
(Income)/Loss from equity investment (15,014 ) (0.6 ) 84,828 12.6 (117.7 )
Total other expenses, net (2,620,613 ) (103.9 ) (4,345,771 ) (643.4 ) (39.7 )
(Loss) before provision for income taxes (6,877,300 ) (272.8 ) (15,020,996 (2,223.9 ) (54.2 )
Provision for income taxes - - - -
Net (loss) $ (6,877,300 ) (272.8 ) $ (15,020,996 (2,223.9 ) (54.2 )
Foreign currency translation adjustment (212,362 ) (8.4 ) (166,580 ) (24.7 ) 27.5
Comprehensive (loss) $ (7,089,662 ) (281.2 ) $ (15,187,576 (2,248.6 ) (53.3 )
Revenues: Revenues were approximately $2.5 million and $.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively. The increase in revenues of approximately $1.8 million or 273.3% is due primarily to business recovery from COVID-19 in 2021. During the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, all revenues were generated in the PRC. During the year ended December 31, 2021, revenues were mainly attributable to the sales of smart watches, health foods and cold gel, representing 5.1%, 42% and 44.3% of revenues, respectively. During the year ended December 31, 2020, revenues were mainly attributable to the sales of smart watches, health foods and cold gel, representing 22.1%, 26.1% and 34.9% of revenues, respectively. During the year ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, no customers accounted for 10% or more of our total net revenues. During the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, all revenues were generated in the PRC. The revenue of the health food and cold gel increased 463% and 344% to approximately $1.1 million and $1.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2021 from approximately $176,000 and $235,000 in the same period of 2020, respectively. The increase was due primarily to business recovery from COVID-19 in 2021. Also, health foods was one of the Company’s main product and the Company increased the publicity of online promotion to increase the sales in 2021. We began selling the cold gel product in September 2020, thus resulting in the difference between the year of 2021 and 2020. Revenue from sales of smart watches decreased 20% from $149,000 for the year ended December 31, 2020 to approximately $128,000 in the same period of 2021 due to a decrease in the Company’s promotional efforts of the smart watch.
Cost of revenues: Cost of revenues consists primarily of the cost of merchandise sold, delivery cost, service fees, sales incentives and commissions that are directly attributable to the sale of certain designated products as well as allowance for and write-down of slow-moving inventories. Cost of revenues was approximately $2.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2021 including a provision for slow moving inventories of approximately $.8 million. Cost of revenues of approximately $1.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2020 including a provision for slow-moving inventory of approximately $1.3 million. The increase in cost of revenues of approximately $399.000 or 22.1% from the comparable period of 2020 was due mainly to the increase in product sales as a result of business recovery from COVID-19 in 2021.
There was one supplier (Baoqing Meilai Modern Agricultural Service Co., Ltd.) that accounted for 97% of total purchases, for the year ended December 31, 2021. There were three suppliers that accounted for more than 10% of total purchases for the year ended December 31, 2020. One supplier (Shandong Kangqi Wood Industry Co. Ltd.) accounted for 50%, one supplier (Harbin Xinyue Technology Co. Ltd.) accounted for 21% and the other (Suzhou Jianli Kongjian Health Technology Co. Ltd.) accounted for 20% for the year ended December 31, 2020.
Gross (Loss) Profit. Gross profit for the year ended December 31, 2021 of approximately $320,000 was attributed mainly to revenues of approximately $2.5 million. Gross loss for the year ended December 31, 2020 of approximately $1.1 million was attributed mainly to the provision for slowing-moving inventory of approximately $1.3 million. The increase in gross profit of approximately $1.4 million or 128.4% from the comparable period of 2020 was due mainly to the increase in product sales as a result of business recovery from COVID-19 in 2021.
General and Administrative Expenses. General and administrative expenses (“G&A expenses”) consist mainly of payroll and related costs for employees involved in general corporate functions, including accounting, finance, tax, legal and human resources, professional fees and other general corporate expenses as well as costs associated with the use by these functions of facilities and equipment, such as depreciation and rental expenses. G&A expenses decreased 63.7% or approximately $4.7 million to approximately $2.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2021 from approximately $7.3 million in the same period of 2020. The decrease was due primarily to the decrease in professional fees, and salary and benefits.
Selling Expenses. Selling expenses consist mainly of payroll and benefits for employees involved in the sales and distribution functions, meeting/event fees, advertising, and marketing and selling expenses that are related to events and activities at the Company’s service centers designed to promote product sales. Selling expenses decreased by 22.3% or approximately $.5 million to approximately $1.9 million in the year ended December 31, 2021 from approximately $2.4 million in the same period of 2020. The decrease was due mainly to fewer events and lower travel expenses because of the negative impact of COVID-19.
Finance (loss) Income, net. For the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, payment processing fees amounted to $25,897 and $9,911, respectively. For years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, interest expense amounted to $16,973 and $30,920, respectively. For the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, interest income amounted to $4,236 and $230,590, respectively. The decrease in net finance income in 2021 was due mainly to the decrease of the interest income, as the Company redeemed a financial investment with interest income of $217,000 (RMB 1.4 million) on January 31, 2020.
Operating (loss). The operating loss was approximately $4.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2021, compared to approximately $10.7 million for the same period of 2020. The decrease in operating loss in 2021 was due primary to the increase in revenues due to the business recovery from COVID-19 in 2021 and the reduction in our operating expenses as discussed above.
Total Other Expenses, net. Other expenses consist mainly of estimated tax penalties and charitable contributions. Total net other expenses were approximately $2.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2021, compared to approximately $4.4 million for the same period of 2020. The decrease in total net other expenses was due primary to a donation to the Binzhou Red Cross Society for approximately $1.9 million in 2020. The overdue fine for value-added tax and income tax was approximately $3.2 million and $2.3 million for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.
Provision for Income Taxes. There was no provision for income taxes due the loss for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020.
Net (loss) Income. As a result of the factors described above, net loss was approximately $6.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2021, a decrease of $8.1 million from net income $15.0 million for the same period of 2020.
Comprehensive Loss (Income). Comprehensive loss was approximately $7.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2021, as compared to approximately $15.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2020.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
As of December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020 we had cash and cash equivalents of approximately $839,000 and $2.7 million, respectively.
The following table sets forth a summary of our cash flows for the periods as indicated:
For the Years ended
December 31,
Net cash (used in) provided by operating activities $ (2,319,184 ) $ (22,538,913
Net cash (used in) investing activities $ (139,985 ) $ (1,671,064 )
Net cash (used in) financing activities $ - $ (1,974,343 )
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash $ 41,014 $ 521,508
Net (decrease) increase in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash $ (2,418,155 ) $ (25,662,812 )
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash at beginning of year $ 3,257,005 $ 28,919,817
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash at end of year $ 838,850 $ 3,257,005
The following table sets forth a summary of our working capital:
As of December 31,
Variation %
Total Current Assets $ 1,319,947 $ 11,435,892 $ (10,115,945 ) (88.5 )
Total Current Liabilities $ 34,453,169 $ 31,307,498 $ 3,145,671 10.0
Working Capital $ (33,133,222 ) $ (19,871,606 ) $ (13,262,616 ) 66.7
Working Capital. The deterioration in the Company’s working capital was due mainly to continuing net losses generated as a result of COVID-19.
For the year ended December 31, 2021, cash used in operating activities was approximately $2.3 million, compared with cash used in operating activities was approximately $22.5 million for year ended December 31, 2020. The key factors accounting for the net cash outflows of approximately $2.3 million in 2021 include: net loss of approximately $6.9 million, adjusted by depreciation and amortization of $0.3 million, provision for slow-moving inventories of $0.8 million; changes in operating assets and liabilities, mainly including decrease in inventory of approximately $0.5 million and prepayments and other current assets of approximately $0.3 million and taxes payable approximately $0.3 million, and offset by the increase in other payables and other current liabilities of approximately $2.6 million and and advance from customers of approximately $0.3 million.
For the year ended December 31, 2020, cash used in operating activities was approximately $22.5 million. The key factors attributing to the net cash outflows of approximately $22.5 million in 2020 include: net loss of approximately $15.0 million due mainly to drop in revenues and increase in advance to suppliers of approximately $6.2 million.
Net cash used in investing activities was approximately $139,985 for the year ended December 31, 2021, as compared to $1.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2020. The change of approximately $1.5 million was due primarily to the less of purchases of property and equipment.
Net cash used in financing activities was approximately $nil and $2.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively. The cash outflow consisted mainly net repayment of loans from related parties and third parties of approximately $1.2 million plus dividends of approximately $0.7 million in 2020. Net cash used in financing activities was approximately $2.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2020, that consisted mainly net repayment of loans from related parties and third parties of approximately $1.2 million plus dividends of approximately $0.7 million.
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
We have not entered into any financial guarantees or other commitments to guarantee the payment obligations of any third parties. In addition, we have not entered into any derivative contracts that are indexed to our own shares and classified as shareholders’ equity, or that are not reflected in our financial statements. Furthermore, we do not have any retained or contingent interest in assets transferred to an unconsolidated entity that serves as credit, liquidity or market risk support to such entity. Moreover, we do not have any variable interest in an unconsolidated entity that provides financing, liquidity, market risk or credit support to us or engages in leasing, hedging or research and development services with us.
Critical Accounting Policies
Basis of Presentation
The accompanying consolidated financial statements and related notes have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“US GAAP”) and pursuant to the rules and regulations of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). Certain prior year balances have been reclassified to conform to the current year’s presentation.
Principles of Consolidation
The accompanying consolidated financial statements include the financial statements of the Company, its wholly-owned subsidiaries, and the VIE and its subsidiary. All inter-company transactions and balances have been eliminated upon consolidation.
VIE Agreements with Beijing Hanze
The Company does not have a direct equity ownership interest in Beijing VIE but relies on the VIE Agreements to control and receive the economic benefits of Beijing VIE’s business. The Company relies on contractual arrangements with its variable interest entity to operate its online to office (O2O) business in the PRC in which foreign investment is restricted or prohibited. The O2O platform integrates the Company’s e-commerce platform with physical outlets (service centers) to connect consumers and merchants in a dynamic marketplace. Pursuant to the VIE Agreements, the Company, through Beijing Hanze, is able to exercise effective control over, bears the risks of and enjoys substantially all of the economic benefits its VIE and its subsidiary and has an exclusive option to purchase all or part of the equity interests in the VIE when and to the extent permitted by PRC law. The Company’s management concluded that Beijing VIE and its subsidiary are variable interest entities of the Company and Beijing Hanze is the primary beneficiary of Beijing VIE and its subsidiary. As such, the financial statements of the VIE and its subsidiary are included in the consolidated financial statements of the Company.
During the year ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, HanJiao, Luji Technology and Inooka did not have any business activities.
Use of Estimates
The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with US GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period.
Significant accounting estimates reflected in the Company’s consolidated financial statements include the allowance for doubtful accounts and slow-moving inventory, and the useful lives of property and equipment. Since the use of estimates is an integral component of the financial reporting process, actual results could differ from those estimates.
Fair Value of Financial Instruments
The Company follows Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) FASB ASC Section 820, “Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures.” ASC 820 clarifies the definition of fair value, prescribes methods for measuring fair value, and establishes a fair value hierarchy to classify the inputs used in measuring fair value as follows:
Level 1 applies to assets or liabilities for which there are quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.
Level 2 applies to assets or liabilities for which there are inputs, other than quoted prices in level 1, that are observable for the asset or liability such as quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities in active markets; quoted prices for identical assets or liabilities in markets with insufficient volume or infrequent transactions (less active markets); or model-derived valuations in which significant inputs are observable or can be derived principally from, or corroborated by, observable market data.
Level 3 applies to assets or liabilities for which there are unobservable inputs to the valuation methodology that are significant to the measurement of the fair value of the asset or liability.
The carrying value of financial instruments included in current assets and liabilities approximate their fair values because of the short-term nature of these instruments.
Risks and Uncertainties
The outbreak of COVID-19 that started in late January 2020 in the PRC had negatively affected our business. In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 as a pandemic and has resulted in quarantines, travel restrictions, and the temporary closure of stores and business facilities in China and the U.S. in the subsequent months. Given the rapidly expanding nature of the COVID-19 pandemic, and because substantially all of the Company’s business operations and its workforce are concentrated in China, the Company’s business, results of operations, and financial condition for the year ended December 31, 2020 were adversely affected. There is an uncertainty around the breadth and duration of business disruptions related to COVID-19, as well as its impact on the Company’s business. Based on management’s assessment of the current economic environment in the PRC, the Company’s recent sales trend, and the possible negative impact from a prolonged pandemic in the PRC, management believes that the Company’s revenues and operating cash flows will continue to be negatively impacted in 2022. To mitigate the overall financial impact of COVID-19 on the Company’s business, management continues to explore opportunities to reduce its operating overhead and works closely with its service centers to develop promotional activities that will hopefully generate additional sales in 2022.
The outbreak of COVID-19 that started in late January 2020 in the PRC had negatively affected our business. In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 as a pandemic and has resulted in quarantines, travel restrictions, and the temporary closure of stores and business facilities in China and the U.S. in the subsequent months. Given the rapidly expanding nature of the COVID-19 pandemic, and because substantially all of the Company’s business operations and its workforce are concentrated in China, the Company’s business, results of operations, and financial condition for the year ended December 31, 2020 have been adversely affected. There is an uncertainty around the breadth and duration of business disruptions related to COVID-19, as well as its impact on the Company’s business. Based on management’s assessment of the current economic environment in the PRC, the Company’s recent sales trend, and the possible negative impact from a prolonged pandemic in the PRC, management believes that the Company’s revenues and operating cash flows may be lower than expected 2021. To mitigate the overall financial impact of COVID-19 on the Company’s business, management continues to explore opportunities to reduce its operating overhead and works closely with its service centers to develop promotional activities that will hopefully generate additional sales in 2022.
Inventories
Inventories consist of finished goods that are stated at the lower of cost or net realizable value. Cost is determined using the weighted average method. The Company periodically evaluates its inventories and will record an allowance for inventories that are either slow-moving, may not be saleable or whose cost exceeds its net realizable value. For year ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, the provision for slow-moving inventory amounted to approximately $768,095 and $1,284,221, respectively.
Advance to Suppliers
Advance to suppliers consists of payments to suppliers for finished goods that have not been delivered to the Company. The Company periodically evaluates and reviews its advance to suppliers to determine whether its carrying value has been impaired. As of December 31, 2021, advances to suppliers and non-current advance to supplier were $189,294 and $6.1 million, respectively. As of December 31, 2020, advances to suppliers and non-current advance to suppliers were $6.4 million, the amount mainly include the prepayment of the 5 million kg of selenium enriched rice for RMB 40 million (approximately $6 million) in 2020.
Long-term Investment
Long-term investment consists of the Company’s equity investment for strategic and business development purposes. The Company applies the equity method of accounting for its equity investment, according to FASB ASC 323 “Investment-Equity Method and Joint Ventures,” over which it has significant influence but does not own a majority equity interest or otherwise control. Under the equity method, the Company’s share of the profits or losses of the equity investees are recorded in its consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss).
The Company reviews its investment at least annually to determine whether a decline in fair value to below the carrying value is other-than-temporary. The primary factors the Company considers in its determination are the duration and severity of the decline in fair value; the financial condition, operating performance and the prospects of the equity investee; and other company specific information such as recent financing activities. If the decline in fair value is deemed to be other-than-temporary, the carrying value of the investment will be written down to its fair value.
No events have occurred that indicated an impairment in fair value for the year ended December 31, 2020.
Property and Equipment, Net
Property and equipment are carried at cost and are depreciated on the straight-line basis over the estimated useful lives of the underlying assets. The cost of repairs and maintenance is expensed as incurred; major replacements and improvements are capitalized. When their assets are retired or disposed of, the cost and accumulated depreciation and amortization are removed from the accounts, and any resulting gains or losses are included in income in the year of disposition. The Company examines the possibility of decreases in the value of its property and equipment, when events or changes in circumstances reflect the fact that their recorded value may not be recoverable.
Estimated useful lives are as follows, taking into account the assets’ estimated residual value:
Classification
Estimated useful lives
Property
20 years
Vehicles
10 years
Office equipment
3 years
Furniture and fixtures
3 years
Software
3 years
Long-lived Assets
Finite-lived assets and intangibles are reviewed for impairment testing when circumstances require. For purposes of evaluating the recoverability of long-lived assets, when undiscounted future cash flows will not be sufficient to recover an asset’s carrying amount, the asset is written down to its fair value. The long-lived assets of the Company that are subject to evaluation consist primarily of property and equipment, and long-term investment. For the year ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, the Company did not recognize any impairment of its long-lived assets.
Leases
In January 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02, “Leases” (“ASU 2016-02”) requiring leases to be recognized on the balance sheet as a right-of-use asset and lease liability for all long-term leases and requiring disclosure of key information about leasing arrangements in order to increase transparency and comparability among organizations.
Effective July 1, 2020, the Company adopted ASU 2016-02, “Leases” (Topic 842), and elected the practical expedients that do not require it to reassess: (1) whether any expired or existing contracts are, or contain, leases, (2) lease classification for any expired or existing leases and (3) initial direct costs for any expired or existing leases. The Company also adopted the practical expedient that allows lessees to treat the lease and non-lease components of a lease as a single lease component.
The Company measures the lease liability based on the present value of the lease payments discounted by the relevant borrowing rate and reduces the carrying value of the lease liability for lease payments made. Leases with an initial expected term of 12 months or less are considered short-term and are not recorded on the Company’s consolidated balance sheets. The Company recognizes lease expense for these leases on a straight-line basis over the expected lease term.
Revenue Recognition
The Company follows FASB ASC 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers.
The core principle underlying the revenue recognition standard is that the Company will recognize revenue to represent the transfer of products or services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the Company expects to be entitled in such exchange. This will require the Company to identify contractual performance obligations and determine whether revenue should be recognized at a point in time or over time, based on when control of the product or the benefit of the services transfers to the customer. Under the guidance of ASC 606, the Company is required to (a) identify the contract with a customer, (b) identify the performance obligations in the contract, (c) determine the transaction price, (d) allocate the transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract and (e) recognize revenue when (or as) the Company satisfies its performance obligations.
Product Sales: Beijing VIE, the Company’s VIE, is primarily engaged in the sale of healthcare and other products (such as nutrition or dietary supplements; water or air purifiers and smart watches) to the middle aged and elderly market segments in the PRC. Beijing VIE sells these products under its own “Fozgo” brand and related healthcare products for other vendors through its internet platform and offline service centers. Revenue from product sales is recognized when control passes to the customer, which generally occurs at a point in time when products are delivered. Allowance for sales returns, that reduces revenues, are estimated based on historical experience. Revenues are recorded net of value-added taxes, business taxes, discounts and surcharges and allowance for returns.
Beijing VIE collects cash from customers before or upon delivery of products mainly through banks and third-party online payment platforms (such as Alipay). Cash collected from customers before product delivery is recognized as advance from customers.
Cost of Revenues
Cost of revenues consists primarily of the cost of merchandise sold, delivery cost, service fees, sales incentives and commissions that are directly attributable to the sale of certain designated products as well as allowance for and write-down of slow-moving inventories.
General and Administrative Expenses
General and administrative expenses consist mainly of payroll and related costs for employees involved in general corporate functions, including accounting, finance, tax, legal and human resources, professional fees and other general corporate expenses as well as costs associated with the use by these functions of facilities and equipment, such as depreciation and rental expenses.
Selling Expenses
Selling expenses consist mainly of payroll and benefits for employees involved in the sales and distribution functions, meeting/event fees, advertisement, marketing and selling expenses that are related to events and activities at the Company’s service centers designed to promote product sales as well as operating expenses related to the service centers.
Finance Expenses (Income)
Finance expenses consist mainly of service fees related to the use of third-party online payment platforms, bank fees and interest expense related to borrowings; net of interest income from bank and related bank products, if any.
For the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, payment processing fees amounted to $25,897 and $9,911, respectively. For year ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, interest expense amounted to $16,973 and $30,920, respectively. For the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, interest income amounted to $4,236 and $230,590, respectively.
Other Income (Expenses)
Other income consists primarily of income from the administration of Beijing Yingjun’s online marketplace. For the years ended December 31, 2021, online market income amounted to $7,335. Other expenses consist mainly of estimated tax penalties and charitable contributions.
Income Taxes
The Company follows FASB ASC Topic 740, “Income Taxes,” which requires the recognition of deferred tax assets and liabilities for the expected future tax consequences of events that have been included in the financial statements or tax returns. Under this method, deferred income taxes are recognized for the tax consequences in future years of differences between the tax bases of assets and liabilities and their financial reporting amounts at each period end based on enacted tax laws and statutory tax rates applicable to the periods in which the differences are expected to affect taxable income. Deferred tax assets are also recognized for operating losses that are available to offset the future taxable income. Valuation allowances are established when deemed necessary to reduce net deferred tax assets to the amount expected to be realized.
The Company follows FASB ASC 740-10-25, “Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes”, which requires income tax positions to meet a more-likely-than-not recognition threshold to be recognized in the financial statements. Under ASC 740-10-25, tax positions that previously failed to meet the more-likely-than-not threshold should be recognized in the first subsequent financial reporting period in which that threshold is met. Previously recognized tax positions that no longer meet the more-likely-than-not threshold should be derecognized in the first subsequent financial reporting period in which that threshold is no longer met. The Company believes that it does not have any uncertain tax positions. It is not expected that there will be any uncertain tax position within the year ending December 31, 2022.
The application of tax laws and regulations is subject to legal and factual interpretation, judgment and uncertainty. Tax laws and regulations themselves are subject to change as a result of changes in fiscal policy, changes in legislation, the evolution of regulations and court rulings. Therefore, the actual liability may be materially different from our estimates, which could result in the need to record additional tax liabilities or potentially reverse previously recorded tax liabilities or the deferred tax asset valuation allowance. The Company’s VIE in the PRC had total net operating loss carry forwards of approximately $6.9 million and the deferred tax assets was approximately $1 million as of December 31, 2021. A valuation allowance is considered on each individual subsidiary or VIE that was provided against net deferred tax assets as it is considered more likely than not that the relevant deferred tax assets will not be realized in the foreseeable future. As of December 31, 2021, the Company recognized a 100% valuation allowance.
Enterprise Income Tax
Under the Provisional Regulations of the PRC concerning income tax on enterprises promulgated by the PRC (the “EIT Law”), the Company was qualified as a high and new technology enterprise starting in 2018, and enjoys a preferential tax rate of 15% for 3 years expired in 2020. The Company submitted the applying documents to qualify for the same preferential tax rate in 2021 and obtained the qualification in October, 2021. An entity can re-apply to be a high and new technology enterprise when the prior certificate expires.
Value-Added Tax
The VAT rate for revenue generated from providing products is 13%. VAT is reported as a reduction of revenue when incurred. Entities that are VAT general taxpayers are allowed to offset qualified input VAT paid to suppliers against their output VAT liabilities. The net VAT balance between input VAT and output VAT is recorded in taxes payable.
Foreign Currency Translation
The functional currency of the Company’s operations in the PRC is the Chinese Yuan or Renminbi (“RMB”). The financial statements are translated into U.S. dollars (“USD”) using the period end rates of exchange for assets and liabilities, equity is translated at historical exchange rates, and average rates of exchange (for the period) are used for revenues and expenses and cash flows. As a result, amounts relating to assets and liabilities reported on the statements of cash flows may not necessarily agree with the changes in the corresponding balances on the balance sheets. Translation adjustments resulting from the process of translating the local currency financial statements into USD are included in determining comprehensive income (loss). Transactions denominated in foreign currencies are translated into the functional currency at the exchange rates prevailing on the transaction dates. Assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies are translated into the functional currency at the exchange rates prevailing at the balance sheet date with any transaction gains and losses that arise from exchange rate fluctuations on transactions denominated in a currency other than the functional currency are included in the results of operations as incurred.
All of the Company’s revenue transactions are transacted in its functional currency. The Company does not enter into any material transaction in foreign currencies. Transaction gains or losses have not had, and are not expected to have, a material effect on the results of operations of the Company.
The exchange rates as of December 31, 2021 and 2020 and for the year ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 are as follows:
December 31, December 31, Year ended
December 31,
2020
Foreign currency Balance Sheet Balance Sheet Profits/Loss Profits/Loss
RMB:1USD 6.3757 6.5249 6.4515 6.8976
Comprehensive Income (Loss)
Comprehensive income (loss) consists of two components, net income (loss) and other comprehensive income (loss). Other comprehensive income (loss) refers to revenue, expenses, gains and losses that under GAAP are recorded as an element of shareholders’ equity but are excluded from net income (loss). Other comprehensive income (loss) consists entirely of foreign currency translation adjustments resulting from the Company’s translation of its financial statements from its functional currency into USD.
Earnings (loss) Per Share
Basic earnings (loss) per share is computed by dividing net income (loss) by the weighted-average number of ordinary shares outstanding during the period. Diluted earnings per share is computed by dividing net income by the weighted-average number of ordinary shares plus dilutive potential ordinary shares outstanding during the period. When the Company has a loss, the potential ordinary shares are not included since their inclusion would be anti-dilutive. For the year ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, there were no potential ordinary shares, such as options, warrants or conversion rights, that would have a dilutive effect on the Company’s earnings per share.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
In June 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2016-13, Financial Instruments - Credit Losses (Topic 326). The amendments in this Update require a financial asset (or a group of financial assets) measured at amortized cost basis to be presented at the net amount expected to be collected. The amendments broaden the information that an entity must consider in developing its expected credit loss estimate for assets measured either collectively or individually. The use of forecasted information incorporates more timely information in the estimate of expected credit loss, which will be more decision useful to users of the financial statements. This ASU was initially to be effective for annual and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2019 for issuers and December 15, 2020 for non-issuers. In May 2019, the FASB issued ASU 2019-05, Financial Instruments-Credit Losses (Topic 326): Targeted Transition Relief. This ASU added optional transition relief for entities to elect the fair value option for certain financial assets previously measured at amortized cost basis to increase comparability of similar financial assets. The ASUs should be applied through a cumulative-effect adjustment to retained earnings as of the beginning of the first reporting period in which the guidance is effective (that is, a modified retrospective approach). On November 19, 2019, the FASB issued ASU 2019-10 to amend the effective date for ASU 2016-13 to be fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2022 and interim periods therein. The Company is still evaluating the impact of accounting standard of credit losses on the Company’s consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.
In December 2019, the FASB issued ASU No. 2019-12, Income Taxes (Topic 740) to simplify accounting for income taxes. This ASU removes certain exceptions to the general principles in Topic 740 and amends existing guidance to improve consistent application. ASU 2019-12 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2020 and interim periods within those fiscal years, with early adoption permitted. The Company adopted this ASU within annual reporting period of December 31, 2021 and expects that the adoption of this ASU will not have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
In October 2020, the FASB issued ASU 2020-10, “Codification Improvements”. The amendments in this Update represent changes to clarify the Codification or correct unintended application of guidance that is not expected to have a significant effect on current accounting practices or create a significant administrative cost to most entities. The amendments in this Update affect a wide variety of Topics in the Codification and apply to all reporting entities within the scope of the affected accounting guidance. ASU 2020-10 is effective for annual periods beginning after July 1, 2021 for public business entities. Early application is permitted. The amendments in this Update should be applied retrospectively. The Company believes the adoption of this new standard will not have a material impact on Company’s consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.
The Company does not believe that other recently issued accounting standards, if currently adopted, will have a material effect on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

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ITEM 7A. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
ITEM 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk.
We are a smaller reporting company as defined by Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and are not required to provide the information under this item.

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ITEM 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA
ITEM 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.
The Company’s consolidated financial statements and related notes, together with the report of Wei, Wei & Co., LLP, are set forth following the signature pages of this Report.

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ITEM 9. CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS
ITEM 9. Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure.
None.

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ITEM 9A. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
ITEM 9A. Controls and Procedures.
Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining a system of disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) under the Exchange Act) that is designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time specified in the Commission's rules and forms. Disclosure controls and procedures include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by an issuer in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to the issuer's management, including its principal executive officer or officers and principal financial officer or officers, or persons performing similar functions, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
As required by Rule 13a-15 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as of the end of the period covered by this report, we have carried out an evaluation of the effectiveness of the design and operation of the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures. Based on that evaluation, we concluded that, as of December 31, 2021, our disclosure controls and procedures were ineffective due to the significant deficiencies in our internal control over financial reporting discussed below.
Management's Annual Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting, as such term is defined in Exchange Act Rule 13a-15(f). Our internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements or external purposes in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) in the United States of America. Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions or because the degree of compliance with policies or procedures may deteriorate. Under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, we conducted an assessment of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2021. The assessment was based on criteria established in the framework Internal Control-Integrated Framework (2013), issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. Based on this assessment, management determined that we did not maintain effective internal control over financial reporting due to the existence of the following significant deficiencies:
· Lack of proper segregation of duties;
· Lack formal policies and procedures to ensure timely book close on a quarterly basis;
· Lack of detailed account analyses to ensure proper reconciliation of all key accounts;
· Lack of proper training of the accounting staff to ensure consistent application of generally accepted accounting principles in the United States as well as compliance with related financial reporting guidelines; and
· Lack of a formal documentation retention policy to ensure that supporting control evidence is property maintained.
As part of its remediation plan, management is in the process of developing policies and procedures to strengthen its quarterly book-closing process and has engaged a qualified, experienced consultant to assist with its financial reporting process.
This Annual Report does not include an attestation report of our registered public accounting firm regarding internal control over financial reporting. Management's report was not subject to attestation by our registered public accounting firm pursuant to rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission that permit the Company to provide only management's report.
Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
There were no changes in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the last fiscal quarter that have materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.

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ITEM 9B. OTHER INFORMATION
ITEM 9B. Other Information.
None.
PART III

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ITEM 10. DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
ITEM 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance.
Set forth below are the present directors and executive officers of the Company. Note that there are no other persons who have been nominated or chosen to become directors nor are there any other persons who have been chosen to become executive officers. There are no arrangements or understandings between any of the directors, officers and other persons pursuant to which such person was selected as a director or an officer. Directors are elected to serve until the next annual meeting of stockholders and until their successors have been elected and have qualified. Officers are appointed to serve until the meeting of the board of directors following the next annual meeting of stockholders and until their successors have been elected and qualified.
Name
Age
Position
Tian Xiangyang
Chief Executive Officer, Director and Chairperson of the Board of Director
Shan Yonghua
Chief Financial Officer and Director
Tian Zhihai
Chief Operating Officer, Secretary and Director
Biographies
Set forth below are brief accounts of the business experience during the past five years of each director, executive officer and significant employee of the Company.
Ms. Xiangyang Tian, 49 years old, has served as our Chief Executive Officer and Director since August 6, 2020. She joined Hanjiao international on July 5, 2018 as HJ Chief Executive Officer, Director and Chairperson of the Board. She is one of the founders of Beijing VIE, and has served as an Executive Director of Beijing VIE since March 2007. She has served as a director of HJ since July 2018, and has served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Hanjiao international the board since April 2019, and is responsible for the overall strategic planning and day-to-day operations of Beijing VIE Technology Co., Ltd at the same time. Ms. Tian has introduced a business model by creating a cloud platform called "Fozgo" for the elderly.
Prior to establishing Beijing VIE, Ms. Tian served as the Chief Secretary at Supply and Marketing Agency of Huailai County, Hebei Province from January 2000 to February 2007. From January 1996 to December 1999, she served as the Political Cadre for the Government Office of Tumu Town in Huailai County, Hebei Province. Ms. Tian was the staff for the Zhangbei County Grain Bureau of Hebei Province from July 1991 to December 1995. Ms. Tian graduated from Hebei Provincial Party College, majoring in Economic Management, and EMBA Business Administration at Peking University. She brings to the Board her experience in financial planning, overview and strategic planning.
Mr. Yonghua Shan, 53 years old, has served as our Chief Financial Officer and Director since August 6, 2020. He has served as Chief Financial Officer of Hanjiao International since March 2020. Mr. Shan has over 31 years working experience in financial management, tax planning, investment and financing management. Prior to joining HJ, Mr. Shan served as the Financial Director of Beijing VIE Technology Co., Ltd. since September 2016. During July 2013 to August 2016, Mr. Shan was the Financial Director of Beijing Beichuang Non-Woven Co. Mr. Shan was the Financial Manager of Beijing Ligao Technology Co., Ltd. from February 2006 to June 2013 and the General Manager Assistant and Investment Manager of Kelon Electric Co., Ltd from August 2000 to January 2006. Mr. Shan obtained his Master degree in Management Engineering from Wuhan University of Technology. Mr. Shan brings to the Board his experience in financial management.
Mr. Zhihai Tian, 45 years old, has served as our Chief Operating Officer and Director since August 6, 2020, and as our Secretary since March 1, 2021. He joined Hanjiao International in July 2018 and has served as Chief Operating Officer and Director of Hanjiao International since April 2020. Mr. Tian joined Beijing VIE in 2008 and has served as Chief Operating Officer of Beijing VIE since July 2018. Mr. Tian is mainly responsible for the daily operation and customer relationship management. He had more than 10 years of experience in company operations, customer development and relationship management. Before joining Beijing VIE, Mr. Tian worked at Hongshu Group from July 2000 to December 2007. Mr. Tian obtained EMBA at the School of Economics and Management, Peking University. Mr. Tian brings to the Board his deep industry operational expertise.
Family Relationships.
Ms. Tian Xiangyang is the aunt of Mr. Tian Zhihai. Except as set forth above, there are no family relationships between any of our directors or executive officers.
Involvement in Certain Legal Proceedings
No executive officer or director has been involved in the last ten years in any of the following:
· Any bankruptcy petition filed by or against any business or property of such person, or of which such person was a general partner or executive officer either at the time of the bankruptcy or within two years prior to that time;
· Any conviction in a criminal proceeding or being subject to a pending criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations and other minor offenses);
· Being subject to any order, judgment, or decree, not subsequently reversed, suspended or vacated, of any court of competent jurisdiction, permanently or temporarily enjoining, barring, suspending or otherwise limiting his involvement in any type of business, securities or banking activities;
· Being found by a court of competent jurisdiction (in a civil action), the SEC or the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to have violated a federal or state securities or commodities law, and the judgment has not been reversed, suspended, or vacated;
· Being the subject of or a party to any judicial or administrative order, judgment, decree or finding, not subsequently reversed, suspended or vacated relating to an alleged violation of any federal or state securities or commodities law or regulation, or any law or regulation respecting financial institutions or insurance companies, including but not limited to, a temporary or permanent injunction, order of disgorgement or restitution, civil money penalty or temporary or permanent cease-and-desist order, or removal or prohibition order, or any law or regulation prohibiting mail, fraud, wire fraud or fraud in connection with any business entity; or
· Being the subject of or a party to any sanction or order, not subsequently reversed, suspended or vacated, of any self-regulatory organization (as defined in Section 3(a)(26) of the Exchange Act, any registered entity (as defined in Section 1(a)(29) of the Commodity Exchange Act), or any equivalent exchange, association, entity or organization that has disciplinary authority over its members or persons associated with a member.
Board Committees and Audit Committee Financial Expert
We do not currently have a standing audit, nominating or compensation committee of the board of directors, or any committee performing similar functions. Our board of directors performs the functions of audit, nominating and compensation committees. As of the date of this report, no member of our board of directors qualifies as an “audit committee financial expert” as defined in Item 407(d)(5) of Regulation S-K promulgated under the Securities Act. We hope to attract a director who qualifies as an “audit committee financial expert” as our business operations mature.
Director Nominations
On July 11, 2020, the Board and stockholders holding a majority of our issued and outstanding securities authorized, adopted and approved by written consent in lieu of a special meeting certain amendments to our Articles of Incorporation (the Articles of Incorporation, together with all amendments, the “Amended Articles”) and the Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company (the “Restated Bylaws”). The Restated Bylaws contain new provisions that may have the effect of delaying, deferring or discouraging another person from acquiring control of the Company. These provisions are designed to encourage persons seeking to acquire control of us to first negotiate with our Board and to discourage certain types of coercive takeover practices and inadequate takeover bids. Among other things, the Amended Articles and the Restated Bylaws provide that:
· Our stockholders may not call special meetings of our stockholders unless they hold in excess of 50% of the shares entitled to vote at a meeting of stockholders. Stockholders requesting a special meeting to act on any matter that may properly be considered at a meeting of stockholders must comply with special notification and other procedures set forth in our Rested Bylaws, including without limitation, submission of a written request to the secretary of the Corporation. Such meeting request must contain all information required pursuant to the Restated Bylaws, be sent to the secretary by registered mail, return receipt requested, and be received by the secretary within the time periods specified in the Restated Bylaws;
· In any annual meeting of our stockholders, stockholders may not act on any matter not properly brought before the meeting. A stockholder is required to comply with special notification and other procedures to properly bring forth a matter before a meeting. A matter is considered to have been properly brought before a meeting if the stockholder has given timely notice thereof in writing to the secretary of the Corporation and such business is a proper matter for action by the stockholders. To be timely, a stockholder’s notice shall set forth all information required pursuant to the Restated Bylaws and shall be delivered to the secretary at the principal executive office of the Corporation not earlier than the 150th day nor later than 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on the 120th day prior to the first anniversary of the date of the proxy statement for the preceding year’s annual meeting; provided, however, that in the event that the date of the annual meeting is advanced or delayed by more than 30 days from the first anniversary of the date of the preceding year’s annual meeting, notice by the stockholder to be timely, such notice must be so delivered not earlier than the 150th day prior to the date of such annual meeting and not later than 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on the later of the 120th day prior to the date of such annual meeting, as originally convened, or the tenth day following the day on which public announcement of the date of such meeting is first made. The public announcement of a postponement or adjournment of an annual meeting shall not commence a new time period for the giving of a stockholder’s notice as described above;
· Our stockholders may not nominate persons to our Board unless they comply with certain nomination procedures. A stockholder must deliver notice of its intent to nominate persons to be elected to the Board to the secretary of the Company not earlier than the 150th day nor later than 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on the 120th day prior to the first anniversary of the date of the proxy statement for the preceding year’s annual meeting; provided, however, that in the event that the date of the annual meeting is advanced or delayed by more than 30 days from the first anniversary of the date of the preceding year’s annual meeting, notice by the stockholder to be timely, such notice must be so delivered not earlier than the 150th day prior to the date of such annual meeting and not later than 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on the later of the 120th day prior to the date of such annual meeting, as originally convened, or the tenth day following the day on which public announcement of the date of such meeting is first made. The public announcement of a postponement or adjournment of an annual meeting shall not commence a new time period for the giving of a stockholder’s notice as described above. Such stockholder’s notice must include all information required pursuant to the Restated Bylaws, which shall include information regarding (i) the stockholder, (ii) any person acting in concert with such stockholder, (iii) any beneficial owner of shares of stock of the Corporation owned of record or beneficially by such stockholder (other than a stockholder that is a depositary) and (iv) any person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls, or is controlled by, or is under common control with, such stockholder or any of the persons described in sections (ii) and (iii) above. Such notice shall contain, among other things, a written undertaking certifying that such proposed nominee (a) is not, and will not become a party to, any agreement, arrangement or understanding with any person or entity other than the Company in connection with service or action as a director that has not been disclosed to the Company;
· Our Board may designate the terms of, and issue a new series of preferred stock with, voting or other rights without stockholders approval;
· Our directors have the power to adopt, amend or repeal our bylaws without stockholders approval;
· Our stockholders may not cumulate votes in the election of directors; and
· We will indemnify directors and officers against losses that they may incur in investigations and legal proceedings resulting from their services to us, which may include services in connection with takeover defense measures.
These provisions might preclude our stockholders from bringing matters before our annual meeting of stockholders or from making nominations for directors at our annual meeting of stockholders if the proper procedures are not followed. We expect that these provisions might also discourage or deter a potential acquirer from conducting a solicitation of proxies to elect the acquirer’s own slate of directors or otherwise attempting to obtain control of our company.
Our board of directors does not have a policy with regards to the consideration of any director candidates recommended by our shareholders. Our board of directors has determined that it is in the best position to evaluate our company’s requirements as well as the qualifications of each candidate when the board considers a nominee for a position on our board of directors.
Except as set forth above, we have not established formal procedures by which security holders may recommend nominees to the Company’s board of directors.
Code of Ethics
We have not yet adopted a code of ethics that applies to our principal executive officer, principal financial officer principal accounting officer or controller in light of our Company’s current stage of development. We expect to adopt a code of ethics in the near future.

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ITEM 11. EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
ITEM 11. Executive Compensation.
Compensation Philosophy and Objectives
Currently, our executive directors and officers receive cash compensation for services in such capacities. We expect to establish an incentive compensation plan as our company matures. We expect that our executive compensation philosophy will be to create a long-term direct relationship between pay and our performance. Our executive compensation program will be designed to provide a balanced total compensation package over the executive’s career with us. The compensation program objectives will be to attract, motivate and retain the qualified executives that help ensure our future success, to provide incentives for increasing our profits by awarding executives when corporate goals are achieved and to align the interests of executives and long-term stockholders. We expect the compensation package of our named executive officers to consist of the following main elements:
1. base salary for our executives that is competitive relative to the market, and that reflects individual performance, retention and other relevant considerations;
2. incentive compensation consisting of stock options, restricted stock and the like; and
3. discretionary bonus awards payable in cash and or securities of the Company tied to the satisfaction of corporate objectives.
Process for Setting Executive Compensation
As we do not have Compensation Committee, our Board will be responsible for developing and overseeing the implementation of our philosophy with respect to the compensation of executives and for monitoring the implementation and results of the compensation philosophy to ensure compensation remains competitive, creates proper incentives to enhance stockholder value and rewards superior performance. The Board will annually review and approve for each named executive officer, and particularly with regard to the Chief Executive Officer, all components of the executive’s compensation. The Board may award discretionary bonuses to each of the named executives, and reviews and approves the process and factors (including individual and corporate performance measures and actual performance versus such measures) used by the Chief Executive Officer to recommend such awards. Additionally, the Board will review and approve the base salary, equity-incentive awards (if any) and any other special or supplemental benefits of the named executive officers.
We expect our Chief Executive Officer to periodically provide the Board with an evaluation of each named executive officer’s performance, based on the individual performance goals and objectives developed by the Chief Executive Officer at the beginning of the year, as well as other factors. The Board will provide an evaluation for the Chief Executive Officer. These evaluations will serve as the bases for bonus recommendations and changes in the compensation arrangements of our named executives.
Our Compensation Peer Group
We expect to engage in informal market analysis in evaluating our executive compensation arrangements. As the Company and its businesses mature, we may retain compensation consultants that will assist us in developing a formal benchmark and selecting a compensation peer group of companies similar to us in size or business for the purpose of comparing executive compensation levels.
Program Components
We expect our executive compensation program to consist of the following elements:
Base Salary
Our base salary structure will be designed to encourage internal growth, attract and retain new talent, and reward strong leadership that will sustain our growth and profitability. The base salary for each named executive officer will reflect our past and current operating profits, the named executive officer’s individual contribution to our success throughout his career, internal pay equity and informal market data regarding comparable positions within similarly situated companies. In determining and setting base salary, the Board will consider all of these factors, though it will not assign specific weights to any factor. The Board will generally review the base salary for each named executive officer on an annual basis. For each of our named executive officers, we expect to review base salary data internally obtained by the Company for comparable executive positions in similarly situated companies to ensure that the base salary rate for each executive is competitive relative to the market.
Discretionary Bonus
The objectives of our bonus awards will be to encourage and reward our employees, including the named executive officers, who contribute to and participate in our success by their ability, industry, leadership, loyalty or exceptional service and to recruit additional executives who will contribute to that success.
Each of our named executive officers will be eligible for consideration for a discretionary cash bonus. The Chief Executive Officer will make recommendations regarding bonus awards for the named executive officers and the Board provides the bonus recommendation for the Chief Executive Officer. However, the Board/Compensation Committee will have sole and final authority and discretion in designating to whom awards are made, the size of the award, if any, and its terms and conditions. The bonus recommendation for each of the named executive officers depends on a number of factors, including (i) the performance of the Company for the year, (ii) the satisfaction of certain individual and corporate performance measures, and (iii) other factors which the Board may deem relevant. The Company did not award any cash bonuses during fiscal year 2020.
Stock Holdings
The Board recognizes the importance of having a portion of the named executive officers’ compensation be paid in the form of equity, to help align the executives’ interests with the interests of the Company’s stockholders. Initially, we expect the Board to emphasize the cash-based portion of our compensation program over a stock program because it believes the discretionary nature of the cash-based compensation gives it the needed flexibility to factor in and reward the attainment of longer-term goals for the Company and the executives, as the Board deems appropriate.
We have not timed nor do we plan to time our release of material non-public information for the purpose of affecting the value of executive compensation.
Summary Compensation Table
The following summary compensation table sets forth the aggregate compensation we paid or accrued during the fiscal years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 to (i) our Chief Executive Officer (principal executive officer), (ii) our two most highly compensated executive officers other than the principal executive officer who were serving as executive officers on December 31, 2021, whose total compensation was in excess of $100,000, and (iii) up to two additional individuals who would have been within the two-other-most-highly compensated but were not serving as executive officers on December 31, 2021.
Salary Bonus Equity Awards All Other Compensation Total
Name and Principal Position Fiscal Year ($) ($) ($) ($) ($)
Tian Xiangyang (1) (Chief Executive Officer, Director and Chairperson of the Board) 93,076 5,216 98,292
Shan Yonghua (Chief Financial Officer and Director) 44,186
3,912 48,098
Tian Zhihai (Chief Operating Officer and Director) 36,889 50,404
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(1) Effective since August 6, 2020, Ms. Tian was appointed to serve as our CEO and Chairman of the Board of Director.
Narrative disclosure to Summary Compensation
Each of Ms. Tian Xiangyang, Mr. Shan Yonghua, and Mr. Tian Zhihai are parties to an employment agreement with Beijing VIE, our VIE, as of the dates and for the salary set forth below:
Name
Position with the Company
Monthly Salary
(RMB/ USD)
Effective Date/Expiration Date
Ms Tian Xiangyang
Chief Executive Officer,
Director and Chairperson of the Board of Director
100,000 / 14,286
January 1, 2019 / December 31, 2022
Mr. Shan Yonghua
Chief Financial Officer and Director
30,000 / 4,286
January 1, 2022 / December 31, 2024
Mr. Tian Zhihai
Chief Operating Officer and Director
26,000 / 3,714
January 1, 2022 / December 31, 2024
Employment Contracts
Each executive may terminate his or her employment agreement by giving three months prior written notice thereof. Otherwise, Beijing VIE has the right to deduct the wage, bonus, on-duty fees, etc. that have not been paid if such action causes serious economic loss to Beijing VIE.
Beijing VIE is entitled to reassign duties of Executive in the event that his or her performance does not meet the standards set forth in her performance appraisal for three consecutive months.
Beijing VIE is entitled to terminate this employment agreement upon the occurrence of the following events:
(1) Executive violates labor discipline or the Company’s rules and systems;
(2) Executive commits serious gross negligence or jobbery, which causes serious damage to the Company’s interests; or
(3) Executive is subjected to the investigation of criminal responsibilities as per laws.
Executive is entitled to reimbursement for reasonable travel and other out-of-pocket expenses incurred in connection with his or her services on our behalf. He or she is also entitled to certain health and welfare benefits, transportation allowances, and relevant professional membership fees and course fees.
The foregoing description of the Employment Agreements of each of Ms. Tian Xiangyang, Mr. Shan Yonghua, and Mr. Tian Zhihai is qualified in its entirety by reference to such agreements which are filed as Exhibits 10.11 through and including 10.13 to this Annual Report and are incorporated herein by reference.
Other than set out above and below, there are no arrangements or plans in which we provide pension, retirement or similar benefits for directors or executive officers. We expect to establish one or more incentive compensation plans in the future. Our directors and executive officers may receive securities of the Company as incentive compensation at the discretion of our board of directors in the future. We do not have any material bonus or profit sharing plans pursuant to which cash or non-cash compensation is or may be paid to our directors or executive officers.
Equity Awards
There are no unvested options, warrants or convertible securities outstanding.
At no time during the last fiscal year with respect to any of any of our executive officers was there:
· any outstanding option or other equity-based award repriced or otherwise materially modified (such as by extension of exercise periods, the change of vesting or forfeiture conditions, the change or elimination of applicable performance criteria, or the change of the bases upon which returns are determined;
· any waiver or modification of any specified performance target, goal or condition to payout with respect to any amount included in non-stock incentive plan compensation or payouts;
· any option or equity grant;
· any non-equity incentive plan award made to a named executive officer;
· any nonqualified deferred compensation plans including nonqualified defined contribution plans; or
· any payment for any item to be included under All Other Compensation in the Summary Compensation Table.
Compensation of Directors
During our fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, we did not pay our directors separately for their services on our Board of Directors. During our fiscal year ended December 31, 2020, we provided compensation to Messrs. Yin and Wang, our former directors, pursuant to a Supplementary Agreement of Labor Contract with each of them for their services as directors:
Name
Fees earned or paid in cash
($)
Stock awards
($)
Option awards
($)
Non-equity incentive plan compensation
($)
Change in pension value and nonqualified deferred compensation earnings
All other compensation
($)
Total
($)
Yin Jianen*
$ 18,800
-
-
-
-
-
$ 18,800
Wang Jirui*
$ 18,800
-
-
-
-
-
$ 18,800
*Each of Messrs. Yin and Wang resigned from his position as a director of the Company effective March 1, 2021.
Narrative to Director Compensation Table
Each of Messrs. Yin and Wang, our former directors, were parties to a Supplementary Agreement of Labor Contract, made effective January 1, 2020, which is an addendum to their original Labor Contract. Pursuant to the terms of such Supplementary Agreement of Labor Contract, each director is entitled to a monthly compensation of RMB 10,000 (approximately $1,429) for their services as a director on our Board of Directors. Directors are entitled to reimbursement for reasonable travel and other out-of-pocket expenses incurred in connection with attendance at meetings of our board of directors. Our board of directors may award special remuneration to any director undertaking any special services on our behalf other than services ordinarily required of a director.
We hope to enter into Director Retainer Agreements which will set forth the terms and conditions upon which our directors will serve on our board. A form of the Director Retainer Agreement is filed as Exhibit 10.14 to this Annual Report and is incorporated herein by reference.
Compensation Risk Management
Our Board of directors and human resources staff conducted an assessment of potential risks that may arise from our compensation programs. Based on this assessment, we concluded that our policies and practices do not encourage excessive and unnecessary risk taking that would be reasonably likely to have material adverse effect on the Company. The assessment included our cash incentive programs, which awards non-executives with cash bonuses for punctuality. Our compensation programs are substantially identical among business units, corporate functions and global locations (with modifications to comply with local regulations as appropriate). The risk-mitigating factors considered in this assessment included:
· the alignment of pay philosophy, peer group companies and compensation amounts relative to local competitive practices to support our business objectives; and
· effective balance of cash, short- and long-term performance periods, caps on performance-based award schedules and financial metrics with individual factors and Board and management discretion.
Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation
We have not yet established a Compensation Committee. Our Board of Directors performs the functions that would be performed by a compensation committee. During the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020, none of our executive officers has served: (i) on the compensation committee (or other board committee performing equivalent functions or, in the absence of any such committee, the entire board of directors) of another entity, one of whose executive officers served on our board of directors; (ii) as a director of another entity, one of whose executive officers served on the compensation committee (or other board committee performing equivalent functions or, in the absence of any such committee, the entire board of directors) of the registrant; or (iii) on the compensation committee (or other board committee performing equivalent functions or, in the absence of any such committee, the entire board of directors) of another entity, one whose executive officers served as a director of the registrant.
Compensation Committee Report
Our board of directors has reviewed and discussed the Compensation Discussion and Analysis in this report with management. Based on its review and discussion with management, the board of directors recommended that the Compensation Discussion and Analysis be included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2020. The material in this report is not deemed filed with the SEC and is not incorporated by reference in any of our filings under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, whether made on, before, or after the date of this Report on Form 10-K and irrespective of any general incorporation language in such filing.
Submitted by the board of directors:
Ms. Tian Xiangyang
Mr. Shan Yonghua
Mr. Tian Zhihai

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ITEM 12. SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS
ITEM 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters.
The following table sets forth certain information concerning the number of shares of our common stock owned beneficially as of March 30, 2022, by: (i) each person (including any group) known to us to own more than five percent (5%) of any class of our voting securities, (ii) each of our directors and each of our named executive officers (as defined under Item 402(m)(2) of Regulation S-K), and (iii) officers and directors as a group. Unless otherwise indicated, the shareholders listed possess sole voting and investment power with respect to the shares shown except to the extent voting power may be shared with a spouse. Unless otherwise indicated, the address for each director and executive officer listed is: c/o Hanjiao Group, Inc., Room 1206, 12th Floor, 301, 3-17 F, Building 5, Block 1, Hangfeng Road, Fengtai District, Beijing, China.
Common Stock Beneficially Owned
Name and Address of Beneficial Owner
Number of Shares
and Nature of
Beneficial
Ownership
Percentage of
Total Common
Equity (1)
TIAN Xiangyang (2)
68,800,000
70.78%
TIAN Zhihai (3)
4,300,000
4.42%
SHAN Yonghua
-
-
All executive officers and directors as a Group (3 persons)
73,100,000
75.20%
5% or Greater Stockholders:
GAO Xue Ran
8,581,063
8.83%
(1) Beneficial ownership is determined in accordance with SEC rules and generally includes voting or investment power with respect to securities. For purposes of this table, a person or group of persons is deemed to have “beneficial ownership” of any shares of common stock that such person has the right to acquire within 60 days of March 30, 2022. Applicable percentage ownership is based on 97,201,030 shares of common stock outstanding as of March 30, 2022, and any shares that such person or persons has the right to acquire within 60 days of March 30, 2022, is deemed to be outstanding for such person, but is not deemed to be outstanding for the purpose of computing the percentage ownership of any other person. The inclusion herein of any shares listed as beneficially owned does not constitute an admission of beneficial ownership.
(2) Ms. Tian has served as the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Director of the Board of Directors of Beijing VIE since July 2018 and was appointed to serve as the Chief Executive Officer and Director of the Company on August 6, 2020.
(3) Mr. Tian has served as the Chief Operating Officer of Beijing VIE since January 2017 and was appointed to serve as the Chief Operating Officer and Director of the Company on August 6, 2020.

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ITEM 13. CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS
ITEM 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence.
Other than as disclosed below, there are no transactions during our two most recent fiscal years ended December 31, 2021, and December 31, 2020, or any currently proposed transaction, in which our Company was or to be a participant and the amount exceeds the lesser of $120,000 or one percent of the average of our Company’s total assets at year-end for our last two completed years, and in which any of our directors, officers or principal stockholders, or any other related person as defined in Item 404 of Regulation S-K, had or have any direct or indirect material interest.
As of December 31, 2021 and 2020, due to related parties is as follows:
As of December 31,
Tian Xiangyang (1) $ 21,530 $ 21,038
Total $ 21,530 $ 21,038
(1) This represents a loan from Ms. Tian Xiangyang, the Company's founder and chairwoman, to the Company for working capital purposes. The loan is non-interest bearing and it is due on demand.
We have not adopted policies or procedures for approval of related person transactions but review them on a case-by-case basis. We believe that all related party transactions were on terms at least as favorable as we would have secured in arm’s-length transactions with third parties. Except as set forth above, we have not entered into any material transactions with any director, executive officer, and promoter, beneficial owner of five percent or more of our common stock, or family members of such persons.
Director Independence
Our board of directors currently consists of Tian Xianyang, our CEO, Yin Jianen, our Secretary, Shan Yonghua, our CFO, Tian Zhihai, our COO, and Wang Jirui. Except for Mr. Wang Jirui, our directors do not qualify as an independent director under the published listing requirements of the NASDAQ Stock Market or the NYSE because they are executive officers of the Company. As of the date hereof, we have not adopted a standard of independence nor do we have a policy with respect to independence requirements for our board members or that a majority of our board be comprised of “independent directors.”

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ITEM 14. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTING FEES AND SERVICES
ITEM 14. Principal AccountING Fees And Services.
Wei, Wei & Co., LLP (“WWC”) audited the consolidated financial statements of Hanjiao Group, Inc. and Subsidiaries as of and for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020.
All audit work was performed by the full-time employees of WWC for the above-mentioned fiscal years. Our board of directors does not have an audit committee. The functions customarily delegated to an audit committee are performed by our full board of directors. Our board of directors approves in advance, all services performed by WWC, but have not adopted pre-approval policies or procedures. Our board of directors has considered whether the provision of non-audit services is compatible with maintaining the principal accountant’s independence, and has approved such services.
The following table sets forth fees billed by our auditors during the last two fiscal years for services rendered for the audit of our annual financial statements and the review of our quarterly financial statements, services by our auditors that are reasonably related to the performance of the audit or review of our financial statements and that are not reported as audit fees, services rendered in connection with tax compliance, tax advice and tax planning, and all other fees for services rendered.
Audit fees $ 325,302 $ 381,167
Audit related fees - -
Tax fees 2,000 2,000
All other fees - -
Total $ 327,302 $ 383,167
PART IV

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ITEM 15. EXHIBITS, FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES
ITEM 15. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules.
The following documents are filed as part of this report:
(1) Financial Statements
The Company’s consolidated financial statements and related notes, together with the report of Wei, Wei & Co., LLP, are set forth following the signature pages of this Annual Report.
(2) Financial Statement Schedules
No financial statement schedules are included because such schedules are not applicable, are not required, or because required information is included in the financial statements or notes thereto.
(3) Exhibits
Exhibit
Number
Description
3.1 Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation, as amended (1)
3.2 Amended and Restated By-Laws (2)
4.1 Specimen of common stock certificate (3)
4.2 Description of Securities (1)
10.1 Exclusive Consulting and Services Agreement, dated May 15, 2019, by and among Beijing Hanze Management Consulting Co. Ltd. and Beijing VIE Technology Co. Ltd. (4)
10.2 Supplement to the Exclusive Consulting and Services Agreement, dated March 31, 2022 by and between Beijing Hanze Management Consulting Co., Ltd. and Beijing Yingjun Technology Co., Ltd. *
10.3 Business Operations Agreement, dated May 19, 2019, by and among Beijing Hanze Management Consulting Co. Ltd., Beijing VIE Technology Co. Ltd. and Tian Xiangyang, Tian Zhihai, Liu Zexian, Gao Xuewei, and Li Chunduo (4)
10.4 Equity Disposal Agreement, dated May 15, 2019, by and among Beijing Hanze Management Consulting Co. Ltd., Beijing VIE Technology Co. Ltd., Tian Xiangyang, Tian Zhihai, Liu Zexian, Gao Xuewei, and Li Chunduo (4)
10.5 Equity Pledge Agreement, dated May 15, 2019, by and among Beijing Hanze Management Consulting Co. Ltd., Tian Xiangyang, Tian Zhihai, Liu Zexian, Gao Xuewei, and Li Chunduo (4)
10.6 Agency Agreement, dated May 15, 2019, by and among Beijing Hanze Management Consulting Co. Ltd., Tian Xiangyang, Tian Zhihai, Liu Zexian, Gao Xuewei, and Li Chunduo (4)
10.7 House Lease Contract, dated June 12, 2020, by and among Beijing Hanze Management Consulting Co. Ltd. and Beijing VIE Technology Co. Ltd. (4)
10.8 House Lease Contract, dated March 20, 2020, by and among Beijing Hanze Management Consulting Co. Ltd. and Beijing VIE Technology Co. Ltd. (1)
10.9 Office Lease Contract, dated January 18, 2021, by and between Beijing Guochuan Borui Technology Co. Ltd. and Beijing VIE Technology Co. Ltd.*
10.10 IFEC Housing Lease Contract, dated March 17, 2022, by and between He Rong and Beijing Janze Management Consulting Co., Ltd.*
10.11 Labor Contract, dated January 1, 2019, by and between Beijing VIE and Tian Xiangyang (4)
10.12 Labor Contract, dated January 1, 2022, by and between Beijing VIE and Shan Yonghua*
10.13
Labor Contract, dated January 1, 2022, by and between Beijing VIE and Tian Zhihai*
10.14 Form of Director Retainer Agreement (4)
10.15 Elderly Care Service Platform” Development Agreement, dated January 4, 2021, by and between China Guangzhi Investment (Beijing) Technology Co. Ltd. and Beijing VIE Technology Co., Ltd. and Supplementary Agreement, dated March 9, 2021, by and between China Guangzhi Investment (Beijing) Technology Co. Ltd. and Beijing VIE Technology Co., Ltd. (5)
List of Subsidiaries*
31.1 Certification of Principal Executive Officer pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act*
31.2 Certification of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act*
32.1 Certification of Principal Executive Officer pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act*
32.2 Certification of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act*
99.1 Court Custodian Documents (6)
101.INS Inline XBRL Instance Document (the instance document does not appear in the Interactive Data File because its XBRL tags are embedded within the Inline XBRL document)
101.SCH Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document
101.CAL Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document
101.DEF Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document
101.LAB Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document
101.PRE Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document
Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted in IXBRL, and included in exhibit 101).
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* Filed Herewith.
(1) Incorporated by reference to the Exhibits to Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 31, 2021.
(2) Incorporated by reference to the Exhibits to Information Statement on Definitive Schedule 14C filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 29, 2020.
(3) Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 12, 2021.
(4) Incorporated by reference to the Exhibits to Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 7, 2020.
(5) Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.13 to Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 17, 2021.
(6) Incorporated by reference to the Exhibits to Amendment No. 5 to Registration Statement on Form 10 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 17, 2019.