Guangxi

Navigating Digital Proof in Hechi Courts If you are a United States founder doing business in Hechi, Guangxi, you already know the landscape moves fast. Contracts get signed on WeChat. Payments clear via Alipay. Supply chain confirmations live in DingTalk chats. It is efficient—until a dispute lands in a Hechi People’s Court and the judge asks for the original electronic evidence. That is when the trouble starts. China’s Civil Procedure Law and the Provisions of the Supreme People’s Court on Several Issues Concerning Civil Litigation Evidence (2019, amended 2021) treat electronic data as a distinct category of evidence. Article 94 of the 2019 Provisions lists electronic data explicitly: emails, chat records, blogs, microblogs, mobile text messages, electronic signatures, domain names, and “other information stored, processed, or transmitted in electronic form.” The rule sounds inclusive. The practice, however, is strict. Courts in Hechi—and across Guangxi—routinely reject screenshots, forwarded chat logs, or exported PDFs that lack a verifiable chain of custody. They want proof the data has not been tampered with from the moment it was created to the moment it hits the bench. ...

Document Authentication in Guigang: What US Entrepreneurs Need to Know If you’re a US founder doing business in or with Guigang, Guangxi, you’ve probably already bumped into the term “document authentication” (公证认证). Maybe a bank asked for a notarized power of attorney. Maybe a local partner needs your corporate resolutions “legalized.” Maybe you’re setting up a WFOE and the market supervision bureau handed you a checklist that includes consular authentication. ...