Professional profile
About Zhang
Zhang Chenlu is a lawyer at Zhejiang Jingheng (Yiwu) Law Firm, where she serves as deputy director of the firm's company and commercial committee and deputy director of its corporate compliance committee. She works at the intersection of law, finance and business operations, advising Yiwu's foreign-trade and e-commerce companies on compliance, governance and international trade disputes.
Practice Focus
Ms Zhang's practice is built around the compliance needs of Yiwu's trading economy. Her core areas are cross-border e-commerce compliance, international trade disputes, and long-term corporate counsel for companies operating on platforms such as Amazon, Temu, Pinduoduo and Douyin and through the Yiwu International Trade City.
She advises on the five compliance battlegrounds most relevant to Yiwu businesses: platform operations and tax-finance compliance; intellectual property and brand protection in overseas markets; data security and personal information protection; cross-border trade, customs and foreign exchange compliance; and corporate governance and equity structures under the revised Company Law.
She has delivered training to business parks and industry groups in Yiwu on tax regulation, financial compliance and export tax rebates, translating regulatory change into practical checklists for small and mid-sized traders.
In practice this means that an e-commerce company transferring customer or employee data abroad must have a lawful basis and one of the recognised transfer mechanisms, whether a standard contract, certification or security assessment where required, and must document its data-processing activities. On the customs side, Ms Zhang advises on the differences between general trade, cross-border e-commerce retail import and export models, and market-purchase trade, each of which has distinct declaration, tax and foreign exchange treatment, and on the export tax rebate procedures that are a significant part of the working capital cycle for Yiwu exporters.
Customs and export compliance is governed by the Customs Law of the People's Republic of China and the implementing regulations on import and export declarations. The Company Law of the People's Republic of China (revised 2023, effective 1 July 2024) introduced new rules on capital contribution, capital reduction and director, supervisor and senior executive duties.
Ms Zhang holds the senior enterprise compliance officer qualification and has published academic work on the new Company Law's financial assistance prohibition and capital reduction regimes, and has delivered training on the new law to business parks in Yiwu. Her financial background includes work at a state-owned bank and a securities firm, giving her practical familiarity with the banking, payment and trade-finance issues that arise for exporters.
Local Practice
Ms Zhang is a member of the Zhejiang Provincial Enterprise Legal Counsel Professional Committee and the Yiwu Lawyers Association's compliance and legal counsel committee, and is listed in the Jinhua municipal foreign-related talent pool. She has participated in government-led service programmes for enterprises, including the province's three-expert enterprise support initiative, delivering training to foreign-trade companies across Yiwu.
Representative Work
Ms Zhang's work combines legal advice with practical compliance implementation. For cross-border e-commerce operators she reviews platform onboarding agreements, maps the tax and customs obligations of retail and wholesale export models, structures data-handling arrangements for cross-border operations, and prepares the intellectual property documentation needed to protect brands in overseas markets, including customs recordal and enforcement responses.
For manufacturing and trading companies she acts as ongoing corporate counsel, covering supply contracts, employment matters, shareholder arrangements and governance changes required by the revised Company Law. She has trained business park companies and industry groups across Yiwu on tax regulation, financial compliance, export tax rebates and the new Company Law, and has published on the law's financial assistance and capital reduction provisions.
Languages and Engagement
Ms Zhang works in Chinese and English. Companies seeking compliance support should bring their current contracts, platform registrations, customs and tax documentation, and a description of their business model. She offers an initial assessment of the compliance gaps and priorities, and confirms the scope of ongoing counsel work in writing, typically on a monthly or annual retainer basis.
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