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Learn more →China now has over 16 million one-person limited liability companies, 27.4% of all enterprises. This report breaks down who runs them, what they earn, and why AI plus policy tailwinds are accelerating the trend.
With AI taking over support, design, copy, and code, one person can now operate a complete business. The "super individual" is not a rebranded freelancer — it is a new organizational paradigm.
Hangzhou is the first Chinese city to make one-person companies a dedicated policy target: 100+ OPC communities and 100k active OPCs by 2028. Here is how the compute vouchers, rent waivers, and subsidies actually work.
Private deployment is no longer a luxury. We compare Qwen3, DeepSeek-V3, and Llama 4 on licensing, Chinese capability, and deployment cost, with a scenario-based decision table for solo founders.
Copywriting, design, editing, support, automation — five roles covered by AI for under 500 CNY per month. Here is the exact tool stack, the workflow that connects them, and the real before-and-after numbers.
Forward Deployed Engineer — the role that powered Palantir's rise — is now being replicated by independent developers as a high-ticket remote delivery model that one person can run.
Registering a one-person LLC in China is now fully online. This guide walks through prerequisites, the five-step process, address and capital choices, costs, and pitfalls.
ReelShort proved the "produce in China, market overseas" playbook by topping US entertainment charts. With the platform window closed, the OPC opportunity now lives in four gaps of the value chain.
Over 20 Chinese cities now run dedicated OPC policies and 618 communities have been built. We rank them into three tiers by subsidy size, payout speed, and industrial fit.
We tested 12 mainstream open models on identical hardware across Chinese writing, coding, reasoning, and multi-turn dialogue, then calculated real deployment costs. Some findings defy intuition.
An AI resume tool, a cross-border e-commerce image tool, and a podcast transcription service — three micro-SaaS products run by solo founders. We break down what they share and how to copy the playbook.
Pricing, SOP, acquisition, contracts — a full postmortem of a 300k CNY overseas FDE project delivered by one developer, with a reusable pricing ladder and milestone template.
Topic sourcing, scripting, visuals, distribution, review — five semi-automated stages. A Changsha creator's pipeline in production: 30 videos a day with just 2 hours of human time.
Registered a one-person company — now what about social insurance, taxes, and separating personal from business money? This playbook covers the pitfalls OPC founders hit most, with a cost comparison of three social-insurance options.