HK (Hong Kong)

Property	Value
A standardized code according to an ISO standard, e.g. ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 for regions. ISO code	HK
Language-specific name. Monolingual name	Hong Kong (fr), Hong Kong (en), Xianggang (zh)
Language-specific short name. Monolingual short name	香港 (zh), Hong Kong (fr), Hong Kong (en)
The offical langauge of a country. Official language	en, zh
Language used in a country, beside the administrative languages. other language	fr
Continent a country belongs to. Part of	Asia

Regions

No regions maintained for Hong Kong.

Legal forms

Legal form	Name	Main abbreviation	description	Category
HK_0608 (CDQ)	you xian ze ren he huo (en) 有限責任合夥 (zh)	LP (zh)		Limited Partnership
HK_1550 (CDQ)	Unlimited (en)	Unltd (en)		Unlimited Co-operative Society
HK_2846 (CDQ)	You gu ben de si ren wu xian gong si (en) 有股本的私人無限公司 (zh)	無限公司 (zh)		De-facto Partnership
HK_3037 (CDQ)	根據法例成立的實體 (zh) Entity established by Ordinance (en)
HK_4620 (CDQ)	Si ren gu fen you xian gong si (en) 私人股份有限公司 (zh)	有限公司 (zh)		Proprietary Company Unlimited by Shares
HK_4975 (CDQ)	You gu ben de gong zhong wu xian gong si (en) 有股本的公眾無限公司 (zh)	無限公司 (zh)		De-facto Partnership
HK_5728 (CDQ)	Trust (en)
HK_6043 (CDQ)	Public company limited by shares (en)	Ltd (en)		Private Company Limited by Shares
HK_6642 (CDQ)	Private company limited by shares (en)	Ltd. (en)		Private Company Limited by Shares
HK_8195 (CDQ)	註冊受託人 (zh) Registered trustee (en)
HK_8338 (CDQ)	有限公司 (zh)	有限公司 (zh)		Private Limited Company
HK_8903 (CDQ)	Dan bao you xian gong si (en) 擔保有限公司 (zh)	有限公司 (zh)		Proprietary Company Unlimited by Shares
HK_9743 (CDQ)	Limited (en)	Limited (en)		Limited Partnership
HK_9827 (CDQ)	Gong zhong gu fen you xian gong si (en) 公眾股份有限公司 (zh)	有限公司 (zh)		Public Company Limited by Shares

Identifiers

Identifier	Name	Registration authority
HK_BRN (HK - Business Reg. Num.)	Business Registration Number (zh) Business Registration Number (en)
HK_CRN (HK - Company Reg. Number)	Company Registration Number (en) Company Registration Number (zh)

Data quality rules

Data quality rule	Description	Criticality
Dummy post code detected (HK)	This data quality rule checks whether the post code comprises dubious patterns that may render the record incorrect. The patterns, selected specifically for Address/country/HK are the following: Regular expression/Mononumerical post code with delimeter Regular expression/Not available post code Regular expression/One digit multiplied several times post code Regular expression/Ordinal sequence of numbers Regular expression/Single digit post code Regular expression/Very long digits post code.	ERROR
Identifier format invalid (Business Registration Number (Hong Kong))	Business Registration (BR) Number is a unique number assigned to a business. The Business Registration Office of Hong Kong, China is responsible for registering businesses carried on by entities. The Business Registration Number comprises 8 numerals at the front of business registration certificate number (e.g. 99999999-&&&-&&-&&-&). All the numerals of the BR number are used as the identifier equivalent to TIN for entities.	ERROR
Identifier format invalid (Company Registration Number (Hong Kong))	The Company Registration Number (CRN) can be compared to a company’s Social Security Number. It is used as an official means of representing a company in legal documents and government records. The CRN is a 7-digit number.	ERROR
Identifier unknown (Company Registration Number (Hong Kong))	This rule checks whether the Company Registration Number (Hong Kong) is a really existing by checking whether it can be found in the business register. If it is not available, the identifier will be treated as invalid and the data quality rule is violated.	ERROR
Legal form invalid (Hong Kong)	Each record should have legal form appropriate for the country.	INFO
Mandatory administrative area missing (Hong Kong)	The administrative area (a top-level geographical or political area division in a country) is required (i.e. mandatory) for a complete physical touchpoint in Hong Kong	INFO
Mandatory locality missing (Hong Kong)	The locality is mandatory for street addresses in Hong Kong.	ERROR
Mandatory thoroughfare missing (Hong Kong)	The thoroughfare is mandatory for street addresses in Hong Kong.	ERROR
Unallowed pattern in name detected (HK)	This data quality rule checks whether the name comprises dubious patterns that may render the record incorrect. The patterns, selected specifically for Address/country/HK are the following: Regular expression/One time vendor Regular expression/Aggregated payments Regular expression/No new orders Regular expression/Do not use duplicates note Regular expression/Reference to other record Regular expression/No use note Regular expression/Reference to new record Regular expression/Reference the former name Regular expression/Long number in name Regular expression/Duplicate record note Regular expression/Deletion note Regular expression/Dummy record note Regular expression/Sequence of digits Regular expression/Unsorted keywords Regular expression/Length of name .	WARNING

Data sources

Data source	An informal and short human-readable definition of a concept, in terms of a 'one-liner'. Short description	nonetheless, we continue to offer the most recent available data., The release status in terms of development progress or maturity.<br/><code>EMPTY</code> (0): No feature considered yet, just a rough idea.<br/><code>IDEA</code> (1): Just an idea, not yet designed in detail.<br/><code>DESIGN</code> (2): Software design ready, development not yet started.<br/><code>DEVELOPMENT</code> (3): Software development in progress.<br/><code>ALPHA</code> (4): First functional release, in terms of a Minimal Viable Product (MVP).<br/><code>BETA</code> (5): Tested by selected users.<br/><code>RC</code> (6): Release candidate, fully tested, not yet used in production by many customers.<br/><code>LIVE</code> (7): Used in production by customers, fully monitored and supported.<br/><code>DEPRECATED</code> (-1): End of life planned, but still available.<br/><code>EOL</code> (-2): End of life, historic service, no longer available.<br/><code>BROKEN</code> (-3): Service was used in production but is currently not available. However, CDQ tries to repair or reactivate it.<br/><code>DISCONTINUED</code> (-4): The data source has ceased providing updates Release status
[[HK.CR (data source)]] Companies Registry (Hong Kong) [[BUSINESS_PARTNER]]A fatal error occurred in the #info parser function	Hong Kong, Companies Registry	LIVE 1,074,034 records

Banking metadata

Property	Value
Full metadata	Bank accounts in Hong Kong
Local name of the national bank ID. Bank ID name	Bank Clearing Code
The provider (national authorities in most cases) of the national bank ID. Bank ID provider	Hong Kong Monetary Authority
Currency code for accounting in the given country. Currency code	HKD