The classification screen

4 questions before you choose the route.

This page identifies the right question and evidence. It does not determine the legal outcome on a reader’s facts.

01

Publicity system and USCC

Shareholders, changes, abnormal list.

Public
02

Your own payment trail

Which bank they used.

Trail
03

Land/equity identifiers

Deed, SAMR.

Hard
04

Court search after filing?

Execution/investigation tools.

Court

Working rule: Before and during a PRC case, creditors map assets from public filings (National Enterprise Credit, annual reports, equity, land where searchable), counterparties’ own payment history (which bank received the SWIFT), and, after filing, court investigation/execution searches.

What changes the answer

The signal ledger.

These facts move the question beyond a label and into a product, money-flow and control analysis.

Signal
Ask the operating question
Why it changes the route
Hack the books
Hiring someone to steal ledgers.
Crime.
No lead, spray every bank
Court may refuse.
Need a clue.
Trust a WeChat broker list
Unverified villas.
Worthless.
Prepare before you escalate

Bring a compact evidence docket—not a pitch deck.

Give a compliance team or counsel the operating facts that reveal the perimeter.

01Publicity-system printDated.
02SWIFT/invoicesBank leads.
03Any known addressesLicence vs warehouse.
Common confusions

Questions people ask before they build.

Short answers for orientation. The right result can change with the service model and current rules.

Can lawyers search all bank accounts nationally?

Not as a private right. Courts and execution bureaus have tools after a case exists.

Is UBO filing public?

Beneficial-owner systems are not a full asset dump.

Primary authorities

Reviewed sources support orientation, not a fact-specific assessment.

PRC Civil Procedure Law (NPC)
Supreme People’s Court
PRC Company Law (NPC)
National laws database (NPC)